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Medical Tools for Birth: Intervention Handout

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Medical Tools/Birth Interventions Research Handout Here is the research on the most common medical tools used in birth. A practical, quick-reference that gives you an understanding of interventions at-a-glance. A full text of the double-sided resource is included below. Pros & Cons of IV With an IV placed, you will be attached to a pole [...]

Breastfeeding a Newborn: Tiny Stomach Graphic

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Breastfeeding a Newborn Handout This graphic demonstrates the size of a baby's stomach at one day, three days, one week, and one month. A baby needs to eat often to feel full. Try printing these as business cards with your own information on the other side, or as magnets for your clients. Or, you can [...]

Checklist for an Amazing Birth

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Printable Birth Preparation Checklist Get a simple, ready-to-use guide for those prenatal meetings, your natural birth classes, or talking to a partner about pregnancy needs. Baby in the best place focuses on fetal positioning, connection with the baby, and letting labor start on its own. Body in the best place is about choosing the most [...]

Cervix Dilation: Printable Guide

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Printable cervix information poster shows dilation Need a visual aid to explain about the physical and emotional process of opening up in labor? This guide (printed at 11x17, above--or two to a page, below) shows the actual size of 2 cms compared to 6 and 10 centimetres, etc. Bits for each stage of labor concerning what [...]

Benefits of a Doula: Why Hire a Doula Printable Handout

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 Everyone needs a doula. Show 'em why. This printable is perfect for the doula interview packet.  Some people laminate it to show at the table or pass around a childbirth class. What do doulas provide? encouragement listening suggestions to ease or speed labor narration of events reassurance positive atmosphere a calming presence physical comforts a [...]
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