PowerPoint Programs

A Childbirth Educator’s Dream Come True!  If you like the teaching versatility that PowerPoint offers, you will love this packaged presentation featuring close to 200 slides. It’s bright, modern, colorful, and convenient—everything you need is on one easy-to-use disc. No need to carry around bulky flip charts—they’re in here, along with over 50 engaging video clips from our new Understanding Birth 2nd Edition DVD, detailed illustrations, discussion questions, and more.

Bonus—2 PowerPoint Programs in 1
Have less time to teach your childbirth class? Understanding Birth: PowerPoint Class includes a bonus Express Class PowerPoint—all the important information condensed for your time-crunched classes.

Program Benefits:

Your way - introduce complex material at the right pace

Show and tell - over 50 video clips and 3D animation bring your teaching to life

Lots of extras - discussion questions, cartoons, inspirational quotes, and follow-along exercises

Planning tool - printable "thumbnail" guide with facilitator notes

User-friendly - printablePowerPoint User's Guide

Customizable* - move slides, edit text, add logos, and more

Chapters Include:
1: Understanding Pregnancy – fetal development, anatomy/discomforts, nutrition, general warning signs, preterm labor, hazards, Kegel exercises, and more

2: Understanding Labor – pain theories, 4 P’s of labor, signs of prelabor, onset of labor, stages of labor using 3D animation, emotions, skin-to-skin contact, and more

3: Christina’s Birth – an unmedicated vaginal birth story shows the stages of labor unfold in real life, natural coping techniques, and effective partner support

4: Understanding Comfort Techniques – labor support, breathing, relaxation, massage, visualization, focal points, hydrotherapy, labor & pushing positions, back labor, advice for partners, and more

5: Understanding Medical Procedures – birth plans, decision-making, induction, fetal monitoring, IVs, pain medication, augmentation, second stage interventions, nonmedical alternatives, and more

6: Understanding Cesarean Birth – reasons for cesareans, risks, anesthesia, 3D animation of the surgery, recovery, reducing the risk for cesarean birth, family-centered birth tips

7: Understanding Newborns – newborn hospital procedures with an emphasis on skin-to-skin contact, first feeding, newborn appearance, newborn’s world, senses, behaviors, safety issues, and more

8: Understanding Postpartum – physical recovery (involution, lochia, perineum care, warning signs), home recovery (baby blues, postpartum depression, healthy habits), breastfeeding (hunger signs, feeding frequency, effective latch, getting support)