Participants
The Virtual Pregnancy Course assumes that pregnancy is a partnership - so there are automatically two participants for each registration. A child-bearing woman, however, may want or need additional support. So there is an option available for her to invite a third support person to join the partnership as they prepare for their own special birthing experience. Additional support people may be accommodated with administrative approval.
Curriculum
The Virtual Pregnancy Course is about pregnancy from the early days right through Labor and Delivery and into the Postpartum period, including early baby care. Topics covered include:
- Early Pregnancy
- growing babies
- becoming parents
- early pregnancy discomforts
- healthy eating
- pregnancy exercises
- medications and pregnancy
- Middle Pregnancy
- middle pregnancy discomforts
- learning relaxation
- creating a birth plan
- pregnancy complications
- medical interventions
- Late Pregnancy
- late pregnancy discomforts
- normal labor and delivery
- working through labor and delivery
- labor complications
- labor emergencies
- surgical interventions
- Postpartum and Baby Care
- Mom and baby in the hospital
- Mom's first six weeks
- What baby looks like
- What to feed the baby
- How to feed the baby
- Caring for the baby
- Scheduled Cesarean Section
- Reasons for scheduling
- Risks of operative delivery
- Anesthesia
- In the Operating Room
Each topic offers you a page where you can keep you own notes of things to talk about with your partner, support person, and care provider.
Each topic is also linked to a related Community of Pregnant People forum where you may ask questions and/or post answers and comments. An experienced professional monitors the forum for content and accuracy