The Resources for VBAC & Physiologic Birth helps expand your knowledge about VBAC and physiologic (normal) birth. Respecting the process of normal birth and introducing interventions only when necessary increases the chances of having a safe vaginal birth.
The Educational Handouts for Parents helps you think about what you want for your birth and to discuss the issues that are important to you with your caregiver. It gives you the tools you need to make informed decisions and increases your chances of having a safe and satisfying birth.
The slide-set, Deciding if VBAC Is Right for You, was also developed to be used as curriculum for VBAC classes. If you teach childbirth classes or lead a support group for women with a prior cesarean, you can choose any of the 14 modules that meet your needs and combine them to best serve the expectant parents you work with.
The supporting e-book, VBAC for Educators: A Teaching Guide helps you to present the material to your students. It includes background materials for each of the 14 modules, teaching tips, and sample informed consent/refusal forms, parent education, and hospital protocols for VBAC that you can copy for your use.
The Resources and Educational Handouts can reinforce the topics you have already covered.
If you are a labor and delivery nurse,office nurse, doula, community-based maternal-child health worker or birth activist, the Deciding if VBAC Is Right for You slide-set provides the medical facts you need to understand the VBAC option and the psychological issues related to laboring for a VBAC. It also includes the many ways you can support and empower mothers to make their own best decisions about how they want to give birth this time.
The Resources and Educational Handouts for Parents mentioned above is useful for you and the families you work with.
For Physicians and Midwives
If you are a physician or midwife, the slide-set provides expectant parents with evidence-based information about VBAC. It can help your patients to reinforce and expand the prenatal conversations you will have with them. It also helps mothers prepare for childbirth and clarify some of the issues they are most concerned about.
Clinicians rarely have the time to provide parents with all the information they need to make informed decisions. Refer your patients to the VBAC Education Project where they can download the following:
Deciding if A VBAC Is Right for You: A Parent’s Guide (slide set, Introduction and 14 modules)
Resources for VBAC and Physiologic Birth: A Parent’s Guide (e-book)
Educational Handouts for Parents: A Parent’s Guide (e-book)
If you would like to find out more about how other providers and hospitals are supporting VBAC, you can download sample hospital VBAC and gentle-cesarean protocols, informed consent/refusal forms, and patient education materials from, Hospital Policies that Support VBAC, Family-Centered Cesarean, and Informed Choice.
About the Flyer
The flyer is designed to advertise the availability of the VBAC Education Project. It can be distributed to expectant parents, advertise a class, or a community support group meeting. There is space available to print the name of your birth practice, hospital, birth center or educator, doula and breastfeeding support practice.
About the web links embedded in the VBAC Education Project
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