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Labor & Delivery Tour (Edmond)
with Angela Kersh

Tours are available free of charge for current or prospective patients. Please register for the tour, unlimited spaces are available.
Tours are offered 5:30 prior to the evening prenatal 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.
No children, adults only, please.
Understanding Birth (Edmond)
with Angela Kersh

The "Understanding Birth" class will meet from 6 p.m. to 9 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 bring1-2 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 class from approx 9-9:30.
Please note that this is a two night class one week apart. Thursday, June 8 and 15. For any further questions about your class please contact Angela Kersh at 405-313-1832.
Labor & Delivery Tour (Edmond)
with Angela Kersh

Tours are available free of charge for current or prospective patients.
Please register for the tour, unlimited spaces are available.
Tours are scheduled ongoing on the second Monday of each month at 6 p.m. and are also 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.
Infant CPR
with Susan Nelson

Join us for the ABCs of CPR for infants 12 months and less. This basic class taught by an experienced NICU 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 in class. Participants may bring 1-2 others with them. This is not a certification class.
Understanding Birth (Edmond)
with Angela Kersh

The "Understanding Birth" class will meet from 9 a.m. - 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 bring1-2 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.
Tours of the unit will be given following the class. Non-class participants are welcome to join the class for the tour at approximately 3:30-4 p.m. Please register separately for the free tour to participate. Tour participants may meet the class in the waiting room. Please let the unit clerk know you are present for the tour when arriving.
NOTE: Only register one person. You may bring1-2 support persons.
For any further questions about your class please contact Angela Kersh at 405-313-1832.
Labor & Delivery Tour (Edmond)
with Angela Kersh

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.
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 6-9 pm one evening during the week. 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.
Infant CPR
with Susan Nelson

Join us for the ABCs of CPR for infants 12 months and less. This basic class taught by an experienced NICU 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 in class. Participants may bring 1-2 others with them. This is not a certification class.