This is a two-session class on October 17 and October 24 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.

REFUND POLICY

Join us for the ABCs of CPR for infants 12 months and less. This basic class taught by an experienced LDRP nurse will focus on cardiac arrest and choking. Please enroll only one person from each family. Class includes a participant book. Each family will have one mannequin to practice on during class. Participants may bring 1-2 others with them. This is not a certification class. 

Class will meet on the 4th floor at Integris Health Edmond in the patient education room. Class lasts 45 minutes to 1 hour. Older siblings are welcome to attend as well as newborns! For further questions please contact Angela Kersh at 405-313-1832

Join us for the ABCs of CPR for infants 12 months and less. This basic class taught by an experienced LDRP nurse will focus on cardiac arrest and choking. Please enroll only one person from each family. Class includes a participant book. Each family will have one mannequin to practice on during class. Participants may bring 1-2 others with them. This is not a certification class. 

Class will meet on the 4th floor at Integris Health Edmond in the patient education room. Class lasts 45 minutes to 1 hour. Older siblings are welcome to attend as well as newborns! For further questions please contact Angela Kersh at 405-313-1832

This is a two-session class on October 21 and October 28 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm.

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.

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. 

Only register one person. You may bring 1 support person.

REFUND POLICY

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.

If you have questions, please reach out to Charlotte Houck, Charlottee.Houck@integrisok.com 405-949-3974

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.

Refund Policy

Tours are available free of charge for current or prospective patients. Please register for the tour, unlimited spaces are available.

Tours are offered at 3:30 p.m. following the Saturday Understanding Birth class. You do not need to participate in the class to take the tour but you do need to register.

Tours meet on the 4th floor Women's Center in the waiting room.

Tours typically last 30-45 minutes and may occasionally be canceled if the unit is full.

Adults only, please, no children.