Product: Laugh and Learn About Childbirth - Lamaze and Beyond (2003)
Rating: 1.0
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A friend, a hospital based childbirth educator, was so excited to have received this DVD and share it with her very next class and I was unfortunate enough to sit through it.While she made me chuckle from time to time, her jokes were lacking humor, the delivery of her message was repetitive and demeaning and I often found myself going 'thats not true' or 'there's missing information here' or 'there's more options available to the woman'As a doula I like to teach my families confidence in themselves to prepare for birth. I like them to know they have options and that childbirth is not some gigantic emergency!I guess if you're wanting the 'oh, I just had a contraction, take off to the hospital for every intervention possible' this video will suffice. But if you want a labor and birth where you're in control, educated, involved in the process, prepared with pain coping techniques or even want an unmedicated birth it's worth your time and money to invest in an out of hospital childbirth class. Bradley, HypnoBirthing, Hypnobabies or a local out-of-hospital childbirth education course will do much more to prepare you for birth.