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Labor & Delivery Tour (Lakeside)
with Laurie Shofner
Complimentary tours are available for current patients or those considering our facility for delivery.
Please register in advance for the tour.
Tours are available on Mondays at noon, with the exception of holidays.
Please meet in the Lakeside front entrance waiting area for tours to begin. Tours typically last 30 to 45 minutes and may occasionally be canceled if the facility is full.
Baby Basics (Baptist)
with Charlottee Houck
This is a two-session class on May 13 and May 20 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm.
Class participants will learn about common newborn traits and behaviors, as well as newborn health and safety, including safe sleep and Newborn procedures. There will be discussion on ways to comfort your newborn with hands-on practice with swaddling, burping and diaper changing.
Please feel free to bring a drink & snack or stop by the cafeteria prior to class or during a break.
Please reach out to Charlottee Houck with questions Charlottee.houck@integrishealth.org or 405-949-3974.
Only register one person. You may bring 1 support person.
INTEGRIS Health Weight Loss Center Seminar
with Jamie Strother
Join us at the INTEGRIS Health Weight Loss Center Seminar, your first step on the path to transformative surgical weight loss. Our informative seminar covers everything you need to know about our comprehensive weight loss surgery program, including insurance prerequisites, specialized bariatric diets and the range of surgical procedures available within our program.
Get your questions answered and meet our dedicated bariatric surgeon and the rest of our expert surgical weight loss team.
Start your journey to a healthier you today.
Please reach out to Jamie Strother with any questions: Jamie.strother@integrishealth.org, 405-951-2131.
Working and Breastfeeding
with Angela Kersh
How do you make the transition from being at home with baby and breastfeeding to successfully working, pumping, and continuing to breastfeed? Join us for this informative, how to class to get you and baby ready for returning to work. You are encouraged to bring baby with you and meet other moms who are preparing for the same adventure. Plenty of time will be alotted for Q & A. If you have not used your breast pump yet or are uncertain about how to use it, please bring it with you.
Topics covered: Preparing to return to work, how to pump, when to pump, and where to pump at work. How to store milk and heat it for baby. Breastfeeding laws for employees and employers. How to increase your milk supply.
Understanding Birth Hybrid (Lakeside)
with Laurie Shofner
Join us for an evening of “Understanding Birth” at Lakeside Women’s Hospital. Our Hybrid class offers access to the industry gold-standard InJoy curriculum in the comfort of your own home at your own pace. After your self-guided learning, join us for a Q and A session and hospital tour so you can be the most prepared to welcome your baby at Lakeside. This portion of the Hybrid class will be 5:30-7:00 pm in the conference room on the first floor of Lakeside Women’s Hospital. These classes are intended for and most relevant to those planning on giving birth at Lakeside Women’s Hospital.
**Registrants must seperately register and pay at the link below for the online childbirth class materials.**
https://integris.coursestorm.com/course/online-childbirth-class?search=online
Baby Basics (Baptist)
with Charlottee Houck
This is a two-session class on May 16 and May 23 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm.
Class participants will learn about common newborn traits and behaviors, as well as newborn health and safety, including safe sleep and Newborn procedures. There will be discussion on ways to comfort your newborn with hands-on practice with swaddling, burping and diaper changing.
Please feel free to bring a drink & snack or stop by the cafeteria prior to class or during a break.
Please reach out to Charlottee Houck with questions Charlottee.houck@integrishealth.org or 405-949-3974.
Only register one person. You may bring 1 support person.
Newborn and Postpartum Care
with Angela Kersh
Class participants will learn common newborn characteristics, newborn proceedures during the hospital stay, benefits of rooming-in, newborn senses, the ABCs of safe sleep as well as get hands-on practice on swaddling, burping, diaper changing and bathing their infant. Physical changes mom will experience after giving birth, new parent emotions, lifestyle changes, and challenges will also be included in this fun and informative class. Class meets from 6-9pm on one week night. Note: please only register one parent/participant, the second is free. Ice and water will be available, feel free to bring any food or snacks with you to class.
Understanding Birth (Edmond)
with Angela Kersh
This is a Saturday class.
The "Understanding Birth" class will meet from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on the 4th floor Women's Center at INTEGRIS Health Edmond in the Education Room which is located outside the secured unit next to the waiting room. Instructors are skilled and passionate labor and delivery nurses who are employed by INTEGRIS Health Edmond Women's Center.
NOTE: Only register one person. You may bring 1-2 support persons.
Understanding Birth is a class covering the following information:
- Pregnancy: anatomy, preeclampsia & warning signs, preterm labor, hazards, emotions, and more.
- Labor: Pain theories, 5 P's of labor, signs labor is near, onset of labor, stages of labor, and the importance of skin-to-skin contact.
- Birth Stories: Stories show how the stages of labor unfold in real life, inducing examples of natural coping techniques, partner support, medicated pain relief, and cesareans (varies by format).
- Comfort Techniques: Birth preferences, labor support, breathing, relaxation, massage, visualization, focal points, hydrotherapy, labor & pushing positions, back labor, and partner advice.
- Medical Procedures: Decision-making, induction, fetal monitoring, IVs, analgesics, epidural anesthesia, labor and pushing positions with epidural, augmentation, and second-stage interventions.
- Cesarean Birth: Reasons for a cesarean, types of cesareans, risks, anesthesia, 3D animation of surgery, recovery, reducing the risk for cesarean birth
Each woman will receive a corresponding guidebook that contains a free downloadable app complete with all the videos from the class as well as other helpful features.
An optional tour of the unit will be given following the second class from approx 3:30 to 4. If you are not deliverying at Edmond, you may leave when class is over.
For any further questions about your class please contact Angela Kersh at 405-313-1832.