Features:

• Childbirth - Mom & Baby Care - Breastfeeding & Bottle Feeding - All in one
• Perfect for first-time parents or those in need of refresher training
• Clear text, abundant images and video clips, and simple navigation
• Twenty hours of self-guided instruction divided into eight lessons
• Childbirth Multimedia software is an honored recipient of an iParenting Media Award

Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
From The Seattle Times: "When I saw it, I thought, 'Wow, this is really impressive,' " said Julie McAferty, a Swedish Medical Center childbirth nurse who reviewed the software and found it "really thorough." "It allows parents to go in-depth as much as they want." Dr. David Loren, a neonatologist at the University of Washington & Children's Hospital, found the course layout "very intuitive." "There's a sense of progress both from a learning perspective and how labor itself progresses, I would recommend it to any mom or dad. Childbirth Multimedia is a computer-based educational program created by a family physician who has delivered babies more than 15 years, a registered nurse who teaches childbirth classes, and multimedia developers. Its eight lessons include: 1. Your Last Weeks of Pregnancy (relaxation techniques, breathing, exercises, labor induction), 2. Early, Active and Transition Labor (breathing techniques, comfort measures, timing contractions, medical interventions, fetal monitoring, analgesics), 3. Pushing (breathing methods, pushing positions, episiotomies, forceps and vacuum use), 4. Delivering the Placenta (expelling the placenta, massaging the uterus, cord blood testing), 5. Special Situations (cesarean sections, breech and multiple births), 6. Postpartum Care of Yourself (physical changes, diet, exercise, sex life), 7. Care of Your Newborn (bathing, colic, cord care, diaper changing, sleeping, spitting up), 8. Feeding Your Newborn (breast feeding instructions and demonstrations, expressing and storing breast milk, breast care, formula preparation and feeding, feeding cautions). Each lesson includes: text; images; video clips of physicians and nurses with parents and infants demonstrating key concepts of delivery, infant and mother care; and optional self-assessment. The Resource Kit contains: a dictionary, Birth Plan templates, Doctor visits templates, Baby shower planning, Birth announcements designs, Baby name, and a video of an actual birth.

Rating : - very convenient
I am very happy that we purchased this cd. My Fiance is a State Trooper and his schedule has been very hectic over the past couple of months with overtime. So, it was difficult to even schedulle a birthing class that he would be able to attend even half the classes with me. This cd was also nice, because it includes everything (it is the equivilant of attending 3 different classes). Also their are cirtain lesssons that you can wait until after your baby is born to review; that will help with the care of your newborn. That way it is still fresh. There is alot of reading, so for those that hate to read, this might not be for you.