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What educators call “the best birth video ever,” Understanding Birth: A Comprehensive Guide is our most practical and powerful teaching tool available. With its nine streamlined chapters, this incredible all-in-one video captivates expectant parents as they learn all the essential need-to-know information on pregnancy, birth, and early postpartum, creating a climate of confidence and excitement for the coming birth. Understanding Birth will help bring excellence to your childbirth class!

Understanding Birth: A Comprehensive Guide is the teaching tool that enables you to be a leader in birth education. With its nine streamlined chapters, this incredible all-in-one video captivates expectant parents as they learn all the essential need-to-know information on pregnancy, birth, and postpartum—creating a climate of confidence and excitement for their coming birth.

More informative and entertaining

More reflective of social and ethnic diversity

More up-to-date

More empowering

Present material faster, easier, and with far greater impact
Designed to fit into time-crunched class schedules, Understanding Birth provides the most sought-after topics in 9 concise chapters with clear stopping and starting points. Built-in versatility means you can find just what you need when you need it, so your presentation is more organized and, ultimately, more effective.

Hold parents' attention and increase retention
Understanding Birth presents balanced information, so parents will better grasp the pros and cons of their options and be well-prepared for unanticipated interventions.

With Understanding Birth, you will:

Show unmedicated, epidural, and cesarean births

Provide current information on interventions and prevention strategies

Increase understanding with state-of-the-art labor animation

Prepare parents with comfort techniques and preparation exercises

Show newborn procedures, tests, bonding, and breastfeeding

Demystify pregnancy, labor, postpartum care, and more

InJoy's state-of-the-art computer animation surpasses charts and models. With animated segments on pregnancy, labor, and birth options, like this cesarean birth scene from Chapter 6 (above), parents get an inside view of how the stages of labor and birth unfold without the unsettling effects of live footage.

The 9 Topics Birth Educators & Nurses Request Most - In 1 Convenient 2-Tape Set or DVD

Chapter 1:

Understanding Pregnancy (14:15)
Quickly, conveniently, and efficiently teach the basics of pregnancy: physical/emotional changes, lightening, the mucous plug, nutrition, preterm labor, warm-up contractions, and more.

Chapter 2:

Understanding Labor (9:15)
Deepen understanding using 3-D animation of the internal workings of labor: rotation, descent, passage through the birth canal, placenta delivery, and more.

CHAPTER 3:

Deborah's Birth (15:45)
Show labor techniques in action and answer common questions with frank, yet tasteful footage of an unmedicated birth,conserving energy, coping techniques, positions, positive support, and more.

Chapter 4:

Understanding Comfort Techniques (18:45)
Help parents have a better birth experience by showing techniques used in each stage of labor: relaxation, breathing, visualization, support, positions, back labor, and more.

Chapter 5:

Understanding Interventions (21:45)
Prepare parents for common hospital interventions: benefits and risks, Julie's epidural birth story, induction and augmentation, monitoring, anesthesia, amniotomy, assisted delivery, episiotomy, and more.

Chapter 6:

Understanding Cesarean Birth (12:15)
Equip parents for an unplanned or planned cesarean through Mary Pat's birth story: animation of the surgery, footage of anesthesia, recovery, reducing the risk, reasons for unplanned cesarean, and more.

Chapter 7:

Understanding the Newborn (13:00)
Ease anxiety about newborn appearance and behaviors, common procedures and tests, early bonding, breastfeeding, and more.

Chapter 8:

Understanding Postpartum (15:45)
Smooth the transition to parenthood by providing a solid working knowledge of early postpartum: involution, perineal care, bleeding, warning signs, breastfeeding, hunger cues, emotional changes, depression, and more.

Chapter 9:

Labor Preparation Exercises (27:45)
Build confidence in your expectant parents with step-by-step demonstrations of relaxation, breathing, visualization, positions, back labor techniques, and more.

Clear and concise on its own, Understanding Birth: A Comprehensive Guide also makes a great companion to See What You Read: Childbirth.

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