This Virtual Childbirth Course Is a Lifeline for Expectant Parents
In the Before Times — aka, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic — in-person childbirth classes were a rite of passage for many expectant parents. A couple of months before their due date, pregnant people and their partners would gather in an austere hospital space for a couple of hours at a time and listen to an obstetric nurse or educator drone on about the mechanics of childbirth. If you were lucky, you retained maybe a fraction of that information once it came time to push. But it’s not entirely fair to criticize the hospitals, who even before COVID were dealing with nursing shortages, for...
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