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4 Reasons you don’t think you need a childbirth class (are the 4 reasons you should take one anyway)
4 Reasons you don’t think you need a childbirth class (are the 4 reasons you should take one anyway)

Here are some real things I hear pretty often as a doula AND educator:

  1. I don’t need to take a class because you (my doula) will be at my birth

  2. People have been having babies since the beginning of time, I’m not sure that I need to spend 6+ hours learning how to do something so natural

  3. I’m planning to get an epidural, so I don’t need a class that teaches me how to cope with labor

  4. When I’m in labor I’m going to forget everything I learned in class, anyway, so why take it?

But here’s what all of those reasons look like in reality:…

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General TipsKatherine Morrischildbirth education, birth class, prenatal, pregnancy, doula, lamaze, bradley method, hypnobabies, hypnobirthing, informed decisions, trauma informed care, informed consent