Birth preparation course

Welcome to Birth preparation courses at Ullevål hospital!

The course will make you and your partner better prepared for the days prior to going into labor and birth. As nurse/midwifes at an obstetrics ward, our experience is that preparations for  birth, with information and increased knowledge about the process itself, will enhance the feelings of safety and a better experience of control for the woman laboring. This also goes for the partner. 

All who give the courses are midwives with 20-30 years of experience from the maternity wards at OUS Ullevål. We call ourselves "Kursjordmødrene". The background for the courses is a research project with focus groups among women who have given birth at Ullevål. They were asked what they later thought was the most important information they should have received about birth and maternity. The course therefore combine in a unique way the women's perceived need for information with the midwives' knowledge and experience.

The topics we will present are

• Anatomy of the female
• Pain experience
• The mechanism of labor
• The phases of birth, with maturity-phase, effacement of the cervix,              delivery and expulsion of the placenta
• Analgesics
• Birth positions
• Caesarean section
• Criteria for staying at the hotel
• When to contact us
• The role of the spouse
• 6 week control/prevention and breastfeeding

We will give you and your partner realistic information and knowledge about the birth of your child. This course will preliminary go into the normal process of birth, but we are also going to track off into other topics now and then.

It will be open to ask questions and talk to other people in the same situation in addition to us midwifes. Both first time mothers and mothers that have given child birth before are welcome to participate. Even if you are scheduled to give birth at other hospitals than Ullevål, you are most welcome to participate.