Hi everyone, in this video, we're going to give an overview of childbirth education.

And by the end of this video, you'll be able to describe how many people take childbirth education classes.

Compare and contrast the different types of childbirth education, discuss the recent decline in childbirth education registrations,

and talk about components of childbirth education

that can be potentially harmful, such as withholding information and the nocebo effect.

In the listening to Mothers 3 survey by DeClerc at all, researchers found that roughly one in three

mothers giving birth in hospitals that year had taken childbirth education classes, with 59% of new mothers

taking a childbirth class and 17% of people who'd given birth before taking a class.

One in two parents took a class with either this pregnancy or prior pregnancy.

This means that half of all mothers in the United States never take a childbirth education class.

Of those people who took a class, half of them took a weekly class that met every week for a certain

period of time. A quarter took a class in one day and a quarter took a class over two days during a

weekend. The latest data I could get from Canada and what they call prenatal education

found higher rates of prenatal education, found higher

rates of prenatal education in Canada with 66% of new mothers taking a childbirth class

in the year 2009, but a lower rate of experienced mothers taking a childbirth class 6%.

In the United States, listening to mothers survey asked people, what are their classes teaching?

The major focus of classes was typically descriptive.

Describing the labor and birth process was the major focus in 51% of classes.

What to expect in the hospital was the focus in 29%.

And care options and benefits and risks of different interventions was the focus in 29% and care options and benefits and risks of different interventions

was the focus of 20% of classes.

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