For Professionals :: See What You Read: Understanding Birth


Introduction
Whether you're a new or seasoned childbirth educator, this See What You Read web-enhanced parent guide can enrich your class's learning experience and complement your own personal teaching style and approach. The booklet provides parents with comprehensive information that supports your instruction in class, and the website provides supplemental videos, printable checklists, and web links for use in the classroom or at home*. We hope that you find these to be flexible teaching tools that fit into your class curriculum and appeal to different types of learners.

Suggested Uses
We designed the book with ease of use in mind, starting with its convenient size and color-coded chapters for quick reference in class. We encourage you to project the website during your first class to show parents what it includes and how it works. You may use the website in class as you wish provided that you have purchased a See What You Read guide for every viewer or pair of viewers.* For parents without web access at home, suggest that they go to their local public library, where Internet access is usually free. If parents are unable to use the website, they will still get a comprehensive understanding of childbirth from the book alone.

  • For Multi-Week Classes
    The chapter divisions of See What You Read: Understanding Birth correspond with the structure of many childbirth classes.
    • For four-week classes, two chapters can be studied during each class. If your class does not fall neatly into four parts, assign certain page numbers and include them in your class outline so parents know which sections to prepare and review for each class.
    • The video clips serve as a great audio-visual review of the material you cover in class. Encourage parents to watch the corresponding video clips online and print out the PDF pages for the chapter you just covered.
    • You can also suggest that they visit the various web links that relate to the topic you're discussing that week.
    • You might want to download some of the PDF files from the website and print copies to distribute in class. This is advisable if you want to be certain that parents get the information included on the PDFs.
  • For Single Day or Weekend Classes
    It can be challenging to fit a lot of material into a shorter class, but See What You Read can help with this dilemma.
    • If you don't have time to provide in-depth information on a certain topic, assign the related video clips and PDFs to watch at home.
    • If your time for relaxation and breathing exercises is cut short, parents can practice along with similar exercises online after class.
    • Make sure to include the specific clips and PDFs you want parents to explore after class in your course outline. (Example: Review the benefits of breathing during labor on pages 32-33 in your book, and then practice along with the "Breathing Exercises" video clip on the SeeWhatYouRead.com website in Chapter 4. Print the "Personal Relaxation Chart" and fill it out with your labor partner.)
  • For Women on Bed Rest
    Parents who are unable to attend a traditional childbirth class can benefit from the information offered by this resource.
    • If the patient is on bed rest at the hospital, an antepartum nurse or childbirth educator can review the content with her as needed, including watching videos from the website.*
    • You may need to print copies of the PDF pages for her if she does not have access to a printer.
    • For a woman at home on bed rest, follow up with her to answer questions and encourage her to explore the video clips and web links on this website, which can help fill her time.

Complementary Presentation Materials Provide Teaching Consistency
Several high-quality classroom teaching tools produced by InJoy Birth & Parenting Education are designed to fit seamlessly with this guide. Video segments included in both products feature the same real birth footage and animations as the clips on this website. Using these tools together with this web-enhanced guide provides you with a professional presentation and consistent message from classroom to home. Call 800-326-2082 ext. 2 to find out more about these complementary programs or to order a free 30-day preview.

InJoy Birth & Parenting Videos Book Ordering Information
InJoy Birth & Parenting Education is the publisher of the See What You Read series. Visit the InJoy website to place an online order for more books, or call 1-800-326-2082 ext. 2 to talk to a customer care representative.

*InJoy authorizes public performance rights for the videos on this website on the condition that the educational institution has purchased a See What You Read printed guide for each viewer or pair of viewers. Showing the videos in an institutional setting to individuals who do not have a See What You Read guide is prohibited.

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