This Multiple Birth DVD takes the place of Lamaze and other childbirth education classes.
Expecting Multiples DVD Course
DVD 1 - Preparing for Multiples with Nutrition & Preventative Care
DVD 2 - The Birth Experience & Life with Multiples
The topics covered in MBR's multiple birth education classes are now available in this very unique 151 minute double DVD set. As you view this DVD you will learn how to give your babies the best opportunity to come into this world healthy. Topics covered include:
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Proper nutrition & diet tracking
Proper Nutrition is the single most important factor in achieving a term or near term multiples pregnancy and proper birth weights. There are no magic solutions once the babies are born to help them grow and mature like they would inside of you. Follow the diet outlined in the film and take a proactive step in your multiples pregnancy now to increase you chances of having healhier good birth weights on your babies. |
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Overview of high-risk pregancy with multiples
Being pregnant with twins, triplets and more categorizes you as high risk. If you think of yourself as high risk, then you will nourish properly, preventatively rest more and be more aware of signs and symptoms that will alert you to the possibility of complications peculiar to a multiples pregnancy. It's all in the film!! Learn how. |
Recognition, prevention & treatment of preterm labor
Physicians are conscientious and concerned about asking you if you've had any preterm labor contractions and your answer is typically "NO", because of course you would know if you had them, right?! Unless someone actually shows you how to feel for contractions and explains to you what they actually feel like, you can miss them in a blink of an eye. Leslie's DVD program will tell you when contractions are most likely to occur in twins and triplets. What do contractions feel like? She demonstrate's how to feel for them, explain treatments that can be accomplished at home to stop as well as prevent them. Finally, the DVD details the warning signs that indicate when you need to go to the hospital if home treatments fail. |
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Medical treatments during labor & delivery
Leslie's program explains the treatments and instruments that will be necessary if complications occur during labor and delivery. We show you the instruments used to obtain additional data to make appropriate decisions during a multiples delivery, including heart-rate monitoring, babies' movement and position. Leslie will also explain when an emergency C-section is needed and how a twin and triplet delivery is different from a singleton delivery. |
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Anesthesia options
Learn about the standard of care in a multiples delivery with regard to epidural and spinal anesthesia Learn about the different types of anesthesia and how they are given and decide which is right for you. |
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Twin ultrasound
The DVD will take you through what the standard of care should be in ultrasounding multiples. What does ultrasounding tell the doctor? When are ultrasounds performed with twins, or triplets? And finally, how often are they required and who should be performing them? Learn all about your babies! |
Twin vaginal delivery
This DVD program allows you to experience a live vaginal twin delivery showing the birth of very healthy twins. Learn about the setting where twins typically are delivered, what happens in the operating room during and after a twin delivery. You will visit the intensive care unit to see the babies weighed and measured. |
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Triplet C-section delivery
Experience a triplet cesarean delivery. Learn what happens from the time you are admitted to the hospital, taken to the birthing room to have the babies heart beats monitored, given anesthesia and taken to the operating room. You will see the wonderful birth of very healthy triplets, the parents' reactions as well as a trip to the intensive care unit. |
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Parenting of multiples - A live parent panel
Now having learned how to deliver strong, healthy babies, what in the world do you do with them once you get them home?! A live parent panel of twins and triplets (and their parents, of course) will take you through their journey from hospital to home, where the real fun begins. Learn feeding schedules, how to handle stress, diaper changing, bottle vs. breast feeding techniques, strollers, must have equipment, and much much more! |
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