Childbirth: a Multimedia Cou [CD-ROM]

Modusfive (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 6, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: CD-ROM
• Label: MDZN
• ASIN: B000AM24E8
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #305,744 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

From The Seattle Times: "When I saw it, I thought, 'Wow, this is really impressive,' " said Julie McAferty, a Swedish Medical Center childbirth nurse who reviewed the software and found it "really thorough." "It allows parents to go in-depth as much as they want." Dr. David Loren, a neonatologist at the University of Washington & Children's Hospital, found the course layout "very intuitive." "There's a sense of progress both from a learning perspective and how labor itself progresses, I would recommend it to any mom or dad." Childbirth Multimedia is a computer-based educational program created by a family physician who has delivered babies more than 15 years, a registered nurse who teaches childbirth classes, and multimedia developers. Its eight lessons include: 1. Your Last Weeks of Pregnancy (relaxation techniques, breathing, exercises, labor induction), 2. Early, Active and Transition Labor (breathing techniques, comfort measures, timing contractions, medical interventions, fetal monitoring, analgesics), 3. Pushing (breathing methods, pushing positions, episiotomies, forceps and vacuum use), 4. Delivering the Placenta (expelling the placenta, massaging the uterus, cord blood testing), 5. Special Situations (cesarean sections, breech and multiple births), 6. Postpartum Care of Yourself (physical changes, diet, exercise, sex life), 7. Care of Your Newborn (bathing, colic, cord care, diaper changing, sleeping, spitting up), 8. Feeding Your Newborn (breast feeding instructions and demonstrations, expressing and storing breast milk, breast care, formula preparation and feeding, feeding cautions). Each lesson includes: text; images; video clips of physicians and nurses with parents and infants demonstrating key concepts of delivery, infant and mother care; and optional self-assessment. The Resource Kit contains: a dictionary, Birth Plan templates, Doctor visits templates, Baby shower planning, Birth announcements designs, Baby name, and a video of an actual birth.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great guide to expecting moms, November 3, 2005

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Kim Brandly (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Childbirth: a Multimedia Cou (Audio CD)

I have just finished my first go through a terrific childbirth CD. It's the only childbirth class I found that's interactive. I liked being able to skip around and I liked the self-tests at the end of each section. I'm sure I'm going to go back to the breastfeeding and baby care sections after my baby is born. I'm not so great with computers but this software was really easy to use. My partner and I are going to do our birth plan next; again, the program helps you think it through but makes it easy to have a finished plan. All these pictures and videos made me so excited, I can hardly wait to have my own baby.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An incredible help for every pregnant women., September 11, 2005

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Orna Z. Kasif (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Childbirth: a Multimedia Cou (Audio CD)

This interactive multimedia childbirth CD is amazing!!! I found everything I needed in it in order to help me go through my delivery with less anxiety and stress. I could sit down, read or look at the video clips on childbirth exercises, feeding and bathing my baby and learning about my mental and physical recovery. This CD was a great help for our childbirth experience and taking care of our newborn, it took me step by step through every stage of the pregnancy and after. I was even able to print birth announcements. The video clips were the best; it was like having a nurse around the clock, very comforting. Highly recommended! A must get for every pregnant women.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Refresher for Third-Time Mom, February 17, 2006

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O. Eliyahu-Oron (Seattle, WA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Childbirth: a Multimedia Cou (Audio CD)

Three weeks ago I gave birth to our third son. His two older brothers are 9 and 7 years old. A long time has passed since they were born, many things have changed and I didn't remember all the details. I felt a need to refresh my knowledge regarding preparation, birth stages, breathing, etc.

The "Childbirth" software helped me a lot, and in a more interesting way than birth-preparation books. The video clips provide excellent how-to demonstrations. The software also helped refresh my partner's knowledge, and made him more ready and involved in preparation for the birth.

"Childbirth" was also helpful post-partum, refreshing my knowledge regarding basic care and breastfeeding. Even now, three weeks after birth, I still refer to the software as a resource when I have a question.

I have no doubt that for first-time moms who have never been through this, the combination of reliable, balanced professional information, and video clips with demonstrations and real birth stories told in first person, will be even more helpful.

To sum it up: a great software, and you won't be sorry you bought it.