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What is the Healthy Pregnancy R.O.A.D®?The Bradley Method® is a system of Husband-Coached Natural Childbirth which helps you treat birth like the physical event that it is, not as a medical emergency. It is a time-proven way of teaching you how to deal with the stress of labor and birth. Thousands of women give birth naturally every year using the Bradley Method®. This doesn't mean suffering through unbearable pain. It means being so healthy, so fit and so prepared that you can handle labor without needing medications unless it's an emergency. |
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What is Natural Childbirth?Natural Childbirth with the Bradley Method® involves a woman giving birth without drugs, medications, or medical instruments whenever possible. Couples who prepare for labor and birth by learning to relax, preparing for what happens in labor, maintaining good nutrition and doing specific exercises usually find that drugs aren’t needed. This allows for a greater bonding with your new baby, faster recovery and less risk of side effects to baby or mom.
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Comments From Bradley Method® Parents "Thank you so much
for the invaluable gift of knowledge you shared with us. Your class has
brought us closer as a family, your family has been a model for us to
emulate and we have grown so much over these 12 weeks we shared with you.
We do hope we get the opportunity to share with you the joy your class has
brought in making this pregnancy special. We'll miss seeing you on
Saturdays."
"Directly participating and coaching my wife during the births were the
most moving experiences of my life. It helped to form an unbreakable bond
with my children that previous generations of fathers rarely had the
opportunity to feel." "Thank you so much! We will be sending many people
your way! It was great." "It was awesome to watch my wife give birth - to see
her dedication and how hard she worked. I was so impressed!" "I am so glad we took the class. Having my husband
there during labor was the best support for me. I knew I could rely on him
to help me through it. I don't think I could have done it without him."
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 Dr. Robert A. Bradley "THE MAN WHO CHANGED THE FACE OF CHILDBIRTH IN THE WORLD AND GOT HUSBANDS INTO THE DELIVERY ROOM" |
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Dr. Bradley was born on a farm in Atchison, Kansas, December 11, 1917. Growing up on the farm provided Dr. Bradley with the love of nature that he brought into his medical practice. Dr. Bradley learned that nature was not something to fight against but something to follow. He was often heard saying, "It's not my method, it's God's method". Dr. Bradley earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Kansas in 1940, served as an entomologist from 1940-1943 and entered Baylor University College of Medicine in the fall of 1943. He served in the United States Navy in 1944 and 1945. Dr. Bradley received his M.D. in the spring of 1947 and began his formal training in obstetrics at Minnesota University Hospital where he first fought for the right for husbands to enter the delivery room. Dr. Bradley completed his formal training in 1949 and once again entered the United States Navy as a physician. In 1952 Dr. Bradley left the Navy and began a successful obstetrics practice in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Bradley's book Husband-Coached Childbirth sparked a nationwide interest in the involvement of husbands in the physical birth process that continues to grow to this day. The "Bradley Method®" has stretched the globe and numerous celebrities such as David Hasselhoff, Donald Sutherland, and Sissy Spacek use the Bradley Method®. In 1970, Dr. Bradley co-founded the American Academy of Husband-Coached Childbirth® which provides education and instructor training. Dr. Bradley helped bring 22,000 healthy babies into the world and his method has helped over a half million couples have natural births. Ninety-six percent of these births have occurred without the use of drugs or other interventions. After his retirement in 1985, the Governor of Colorado named May 5th of that year "Dr. Robert A. Bradley Day" and the American Biographical Institute named him "Man of the Decade".
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