My goal is to avoid medication and epidural anesthesia – is that possible?
Our classes present birth as a normal, natural, healthy event. The classes provide information to help you increase your confidence in your body’s ability to give birth and help you trust your own inner wisdom. Women have been having babies since the beginning of time, but in our current high-tech culture, it is easy to doubt our own abilities. Women intuitively know how to give birth. Our classes help you learn how to tap into that intuition and let the birth process happen. Avoiding medication in childbirth requires the following: confidence in the process of birth and in your own abilities, continuous emotional and physical labor support, learning to respond to your contractions by first practicing and then putting into use the many non-pharmaceutical comfort measures and pain relief techniques available, the ability to view birth as an active, rather than passive, process, and the willingness to work hard to achieve your desired goal. While medication and anesthesia does occasional
