Emphasize good coaching techniques for labor and birth management with stress control. Advise you on how to be an intelligent consumer of obstetric services, emphasizing positive communication with the birth attendants. As a Bradley teachers, we help couples to find what is comfortable for them in labor. By tuning-in to your body a woman is in a better position to decrease her pain during labor thus making labor easier and faster. Natural childbirth is inherently safer for both mother and baby and has a more positive affect on family bonding.
Natural childbirth is also, in most cases, easier and shorter than medicated births.
Active Participation by the husband as coach. Avoidance of drugs during pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding, unless absolutely necessary. Immediate and continuous contact with your new baby. Breastfeeding, beginning at birth. Consumerism and positive communications.