The Lamaze series covers:

• How partners or other companions can help a laboring mom.

• What happens during the different phases of labor.

• What causes the pain of labor and what purpose does the pain serve.

• Positions for labor.

• How to maximize the effectiveness of the natural opiates you produce during labor.

• Relaxation techniques, and why relaxation can make your labor easier

• Breathing.

• Visualization.

• Massage

• What to pack in a birth bag.

• Communicating with your health care providers.

• Research on the effectiveness of common medical procedures.

• Working with unexpected outcomes at birth.

• Cultural attitudes towards birth and how they might affect your experience of birth

• How your perceptions of labor can affect your experience.

• Lovely, peaceful birth films to counteract the wild portrayal of birth on TV and movies.

• An intense birth film that shows many natural comfort techniques in use.

• Breastfeeding.

• Early parenting.

• Nutrition.

• More.