Editor Reviews:

Description:
If you can't attend childbirth class, this video/dvd will bring the class home to you. "Having Your Baby!" is the only complete, step-by-step instructional video on Lamaze Prepared Childbirth available today that is taught by two nationally recognized, licensed medical professionals who are obstetrical RNs and Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educators. Recently redone and updated in 2001, "Having Your Baby ! " combines the best of an old fashioned Lamaze class with the latest in medical information and computer technology.

Now on DVD, all breathing techniques are conveniently condensed into one chapter for easy reference.

Don't be fooled by imitations, substitutions, or copies!

Unlike other videos which have an instructor talking to a home video camera, professionally produced " Having Your Baby!" takes you directly from the classroom into the hospital, labor room and birthing room, allowing you to see, first-hand, discreet footage of obstetrical procedures, epidurals, labor, vaginal and Cesarean births and much more!

Spectacular 3-dimensional animation helps you understand exactly what is happening during labor and birth; other videos show an instructor pointing to a vague diagram that is impossible to see or understand.

" Having Your Baby!" is highly recommended by leading medical professionals and childbirth educators worldwide.

Amazon.com:
Parents-to-be who are interested in the Lamaze method but can't attend a class will be happy to know they can learn it from this two-hour video. Taught by two certified instructors who are OB nurses, this is the only video course that teaches the complete method. Lamaze seeks to reduce pain through relaxation achieved by massage, focus, and a series of breathing techniques. The instructors share an easy rapport, demonstrating the exercises on each other before a roomful of couples and thoroughly explaining the purpose of labor, how to know when it begins, and its three stages. They describe medications and birth complications and include footage of both a natural Lamaze childbirth and a Caesarian delivery. While this tape was clearly shot in the 1980s (the hair styles and fashions are amusingly outdated), it does have new computer-generated diagrams, and the medical information seems up to date. The Lamaze technique itself has not altered, of course, and this tape remains the gold standard in that department. --Kimberly Heinrichs

Rating : - Definitely dated
I got this because I couldn't find any Lamaze classes in my area and this was the only DVD I could find. Even so, it's quite dated (80s, I think), so that was a turn off at first, especially for my husband who was already was skeptical of "that schmarmy crap". I was hoping for something a bit more engaging.