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Coral Slavin, PhD
Well-Rounded Childbirth Preparation(Formerly Bradley Method)262-893-9945Well-Rounded Childbirth Preparation Class
(formerly Bradley Method®)Whether you are looking for a natural drug-free birth, or want to explore your options regarding pain medication during labor, I am committed to ensuring that parents are well prepared for labor, delivery, and the postpartum period. Instead of teaching 'one right way' to have a baby, I believe in giving you and your partner a complete education so that when the time comes you can decide how best to work with your doctor/midwife to have the kind of birth you want. I believe that childbirth is a normal, instinctive process that integrates body, mind and spirit. It is not an illness requiring treatment or routine intervention. Women planning on birthing in a hospital most often say that they fear losing control of their birth experience. Yet, to labor most effectively, it is this very control that they must surrender, allowing the natural process to flow. They are able to to let go when they have faith in their own bodies, and in their caregivers. Women are capable of giving birth naturally if they have the commitment, knowledge, and support to do so.The 8-week class covers a variety of topics including:
the importance of sound nutrition and physical conditioning to enhance low-risk pregnancies; what happens physically and emotionally during the various stages of labor; how you can work with your body instead of against it to manage pain without drugs; birth plans; labor positions; relaxation and breathing; birth technology and procedures; how to deal with or avoid complications; postpartum and baby care; and how to cope if things don't go the way you anticipated. Following the births of all the babies, each class gets together for a reunion to meet the babies and share birth stories.I have a PhD in health education/stress management, and have been certified as a Bradley Method educator, both an ICEA and DONA doula, an ACE prenatal fitness/yoga instructor, and a stress management counselor and hypnotherapist since 1996. I have attended over 350 births in the Milwaukee area.Coral SlavinOwner, Well-Rounded Maternity CenterN88 W16733 Main St.Menomonee Falls, WI 53051262-253-6510.