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Follow Me Mum ~ Breastfeeding DVD

Follow Me Mum ~ Breastfeeding DVD

This 20 minute DVD teaches Mother's how breastfeeding works, how to work with their baby's instinctive behaviour and how to hold, position and attach their baby.

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Attachment ~ The Key to Successful Breastfeeding

Attachment ~ The Key to Successful Breastfeeding

This poster offers detailed graphics and clearly describes practical steps to good positioning and attachment of the baby for breastfeeding. Perfect for anyone working with Mother's who are learning how to breastfeed or having difficulties with position and attachment.

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Positioning ~ The Key To Successful Attachment

Positioning ~ The Key To Successful Attachment

Through vital visual images this laminated poster shows perfect positioning from all angles, and highlights the essential elements of good positioning. Perfect for hospital rooms, feeding rooms, prenatal classes and lactation clinics.

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Attachment ~ Breastfeeding Teaching Chart

Attachment ~ Breastfeeding Teaching Chart

This double sided, laminated teaching chart offers superior graphics and clear explanation of the foundation of breastfeeding; "The Latch". Convenient tabletop size offers ease of portablity and takes up less space. Educators can support and empower breastfeeding Mother's by helping them recognize when baby is latched well and effectively removing milk from the breast.

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Pregnancy, Childbirth And The Newborn (Revised and Updated):The Complete Guide

Pregnancy, Childbirth And The Newborn (Revised and Updated):The Complete Guide

With over one million copies in print, this is one of the best-selling books about pregnancy on the market. More complete and up-to-date than any other pregnancy guide for both parents and professionals.

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Your Childbirth Education Classes: Finding Clients

Your Childbirth Education Classes: Finding Clients

A handy pocket size guide to setting up classes and finding clients.

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Dr. Jack Newman's Visual Guide To Breastfeeding

Dr. Jack Newman's Visual Guide To Breastfeeding

This DVD from Canada's leading expert in breastfeeding will be invaluable to new parents and professionals. This easy to understand visual guide will help you to know how breastfeeding actually works and enables you to cut through both the confusing and often conflicting information offered about breastfeeding. Approx. 45 min.

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Active Birth (Revised Edition) Janet Balaskas

Active Birth (Revised Edition) Janet Balaskas


Annotation: Designed to help women develop all their bodily resources to deal with the instinctive processes of labor and childbirth, this guide is also intended for midwives, partners, teachers, and others involved in making the experience a more active one for the mother. Contains a wealth of information for pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period. 100 illustrations; 100 photographs.(Softcover)

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Breastfeeding Made Simple ~ Nancy Mohrbacher, Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

Breastfeeding Made Simple ~ Nancy Mohrbacher, Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

Everything you need to know for easier breastfeeding. This book offers straight forward, up-to-date effective breastfeeding techniques. Excellent resource for both parents, professionals or anyone working with breastfeeding Mothers.

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The Complete Book Of Pregnancy And Childbirth (Revised and updated)~ Sheila Kitzinger

The Complete Book Of Pregnancy And Childbirth (Revised and updated)~ Sheila Kitzinger

Annotation: This new edition of The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth has been extensively revised to reflect scientific advances and cultural trends. Here, candidly and reasonably presented, is all the information expectant parents need to make their own decisions about everything--from which tests to allow to how to handle pain to where to give birth. 300 photos, drawings & diagrams.

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The Official Lamaze Guide ~ Giving Birth with Confidence

The Official Lamaze Guide ~ Giving Birth with Confidence

The Official Lamaze Guide helps expectant parents experience childbirth with confidence. In clear, easy-to-understand terms, this book dispels the myths that pregnancy and birth are fraught with risk.

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The Postpartum Husband: Practical Solutions for Living with Postpartum Depression

The Postpartum Husband: Practical Solutions for Living with Postpartum Depression

This hands-on guide includes straight forward, supportive information and specific recommendations to help partners deal with the impact of depression after the birth of a baby.

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This Isn't What I Expected ~ Overcoming Postpartum Depression

This Isn't What I Expected ~ Overcoming Postpartum Depression

PPD strikes up to thirty percent of all women who give birth, yet only a small fraction of those who suffer this devastating illness ever get the help they need. In this groundbreaking book, postpartum experts Karen Kleiman and Valerie Raskin offer compassionate, support and solid advice for women with PPD and those closest to them.

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Pelvis Model

Pelvis Model

This handcrafted model pelvis has been designed specially for those teaching active birth classes.

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Fetal Doll Model

Fetal Doll Model

Soft body with vinyl head, hands and feet, 'folds' neatly for class demonstration. Will fit through most commonly used pelvis models, including the ACE plastic pelvis. Fontanelles can be drawn on the head with a felt pen. Includes realistically patterned and shaped placenta and cord which has a snap fastener attachment to the doll. Australian made.

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Labor Pain! ~ Teaching Charts

Labor Pain! ~ Teaching Charts

A set of five laminated charts that explain the basic physiology of pain in labour. Designed to increase understanding of the main hormonal influences affecting pain in labour and how these can be used to promote normal physiological birth that is safe, comfortable and speedy. Comes with explanatory notes for the educator.

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Giving Birth Charts

Giving Birth Charts

This unique set of birth charts shows a woman truly giving birth to her child, rather than being delivered of a baby.

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Empowering Women ~ Andrea Robertson

Empowering Women ~ Andrea Robertson

Here is the book to either help you get started as a childbirth educator, or provide that stimulus to try something different in your established routine.

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Preparing For Birth: Mother's ~ Andrea Robertson

Preparing For Birth: Mother's ~ Andrea Robertson

Completely revised and updated, this popular handbook has been written as background notes for childbirth education classes. Its unique format covers all the essential topics, from pregnancy, through labour and birth and the early postnatal period, emphasising normal physiological birth.

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Preparing For Birth: Father's ~ Andrea Robertson

Preparing For Birth: Father's ~ Andrea Robertson

At last --- a set of pre-natal class notes especially for fathers!

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The Essential Educator

The Essential Educator

First in Canada! New and experienced Childbirth Educators alike will appreciate the elements that have gone into this world first product. Andrea Robertson; a world expert in Childbirth Education has designed the Essential Educator based on her many years of experience in facilitating prenatal education. This kit enables new educators the ability to begin a program from the ground up and experienced educators ideas and tools to enhance their existing program. A must see!

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The Midwife Companion (2nd Edition)

The Midwife Companion (2nd Edition)

This best-selling midwifery textbook, now in its second edition, explains how birth companions can provide the best for labouring women. Written in an accessible, friendly and practical style

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Birth Day Panels

Birth Day Panels

A totally new concept for exploring the birth process!

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Unexpected Outcomes

Unexpected Outcomes

Everything about labour and birth could be seen as "unexpected" given the unpredictable nature of the process. Although this may be a common theme of the entire program, dealing with the worst outcomes and discussing strategies for managing traumatic or tragic events is difficult and often avoided. This activity offers guidance on introducing and managing this topic with a birth preparation program, including discussion starters and wrap up suggestions. Compile your own local resources parent handout using the CD ROM included in the pack.

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The "Cascade Of Intervention" Kit

This activity enables parents to fully understand the risks, benefits and consequences of the various obstetric interventions and medication they may be offered during labour and birth. A valuable tool for enabling informed choice, this activity provides a visual reminder whilst checking levels of understanding and providing opportunities for further discussion.

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"Take A Stand" kit

Expectant parents will be faced with many parenting issues that will need consideration and eventually, decisions to be made. This activity provides an opportunity to explore some of these with a group of peers.

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Changing Responsibilities

Changing Responsibilities

This pack contains a series of activities that encourages exploration of important parenting issues that form central themes of preparation for parenting programs.

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Obstetric Interventions and Medications

Obstetric Interventions and Medications

The issue of informed consent and informed choice are major issues that underpin effective preparation for parenthood programs. The childbirth educator is the team member with the best opportunity to facilitate meaningful discussion around the various obstetric interventions and medications likely to be offered to labouring women. This pack contains guidelines on how to facilitate effective learning about these issues and a set of "templates" that act as reminders for the details that the educator needs to include. Reference lists, aims and learner outcomes and presentation tips are also included.

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Labour Pain Teaching Kit

Labour Pain Teaching Kit

Labour pain is often the most requested topic for discussion in prenatal education programs. Women want good information about pain and strategies for dealing with it in labour.

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Settling The Baby

Settling The Baby

Expectant parents often worry about how they will settle a crying baby. This pack contains full explanations for an effective learning activity for tackling this issue in a fun and practical way. Includes a CD ROM of a crying newborn baby, full instructions, aims and learner outcomes and presentation ideas.

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Relaxation, Rhythm, Ritual: The 3 Rs of Childbirth DVD

Relaxation, Rhythm, Ritual: The 3 Rs of Childbirth DVD

In this 15 minute video, Penny shares 23 "scenes" from the labors and births of 10 women, illustrating with moving examples what she often refers to as "The 3 Rs of Childbirth: Relaxation, Rhythm, and Ritual." Watching these different women and their unique resonses to contractions as they progress from early labor to birth will serve as inspriation for pregnant women in classes or in individual sessions. Also available as a video cassette - see checkout for format option

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Penny Simkin Chilbirth Class Handouts CD Rom

Penny Simkin Chilbirth Class Handouts CD Rom

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Penny Simkin's Road Map of Labour ~ Tear sheets

Penny Simkin's Road Map of Labour ~ Tear sheets

The Road Map of Labor is a visual guide to the journey of labor and delivery. 8½” X 11” double-sided client handout with superior visuals of the journey through labor.

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