Combining detailed animation of the labor process, live birth footage and parents describing their experience of labor and delivery, this video is an anatomy lesson and a birth story, all in one. Since pictures paint a thousand words, these animated images will make teaching labor and delivery easier and more effective! It gives expectant parents unique insight and understanding of the birth process from the first Braxton Hicks contraction through the delivery of the placenta. Modern 3-D animation and non-technical narration make the stages of labor easy to understand.

Animation Topics Include: Vertex presentation and lightening; Uterine contractions in the different stages of labor; Cervical effacement and dilation; Second Stage descent with pelvic stations and internal rotation; Birth, with extension and external rotation; Separation and delivery of the placenta Involution

Parents will learn about: Differences between false and early labor; Ways labor can begin; Division of labor into three distinct stages; When to go to the hospital; Average time lengths for each stage of labor;How uterine contractions affect the cervix and the baby.    Closed Captioned. Spanish Version also available