For dads and partners: Learning about labor and birth

There are many ways you can find the information you want and need. You can:

Accompany your partner to prenatal visits and talk with her health care provider.
Read books on pregnancy, labor and fatherhood.
Talk to male friends who have children.
Talk to your father.
Read all the information about pregnancy in the Pregnancy Condition Center.
Talk to your partner.
Attend prenatal classes and prepared childbirth classes.
Attend expectant father classes.

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Source: Allina Patient Education, Beginnings: Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond, fourth edition, ISBN 1-931876-14-2

First published: 10/04/2002
Last updated: 06/19/2003

Reviewed by: Allina Patient Education experts

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