A Dad's Guide to Labor and Delivery: Pre-Hospital

Got your route mapped? Birth-plan in hand? Bag packed? This lesson is the guy's guide to the biggest birthday of your life. From the trip to the hospital to the trip home and everything in between, the Due Dads give you the inside scoop on labor and delivery. Tour a hospital. Peek inside at a labor and delivery room. Laugh along with a pair of veteran dads that have cut the cord and lived to tell the tale. "Push" play and be ready to "breath" easier.

In this lesson, Due Dads will go over a birth plan and what you need to include, what to pack in the hospital bag, how to install the car seat, exploring your paternity leave and health insurance options, and planning your route to the hospital. Finally, the DadLabs dads will discuss how to know when it is time to leave for the hospital, and interview women about their personal delivery stories.

Even though expecting a baby has nothing to do with football playoffs, grilling excellent steaks, margin calls, fuel injection, or cold brewskis, this series of DadLabs lessons will teach you what you need to know to get you safely and happily to that big 0th birthday:
First Trimester Part 1: (the page you're on now)
First Trimester Part 2: http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/702
Second Trimester Part 1: http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/708
Second Trimester Part 2: http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/714
Third Trimester Part 1: http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/715
Third Trimester Part 2: http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/716

As that big day approaches, you may also want to check out the series of guides from the Dads that walk you through the nuts and bolts and nitty-gritty of your babies big debut - everything from pre-hospital through labor, delivery and post-delivery. Check these lessons out here:
At the hospital: http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/704
Delivery: http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/705
After birth: http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/706
New Baby: http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/707

For more information and insights from Daddy Troy, Daddy Clay, Daddy Brad, and the rest of the community at DadLabs, be sure to check out www.dadlabs.com. This particular lesson is an excerpted portion of the DVD, "Due Dads: the Man's Guide to Labor and Delivery."

DadLabs is an information and entertainment company headquartered in Austin, Texas, that fosters the father/child relationship through media, instructional and retail products. The mission of the company is to strengthen families and benefit children by empowering today's fathers. The company provides resources to expecting, new and veteran fathers that will launch them into a more active and creative role in the lives of their children. DadLabs speaks to the corporate executive and the delivery driver with a voice that is authentic and genuinely male, with wisdom and self-deprecating humor of experience. The products and services offered are honest, informative, sometimes off-color, but...

Great for Mom and Dads!

01/19/2009

~ nachan

This video series is great! The lessons are very informative and instructional but also so funny and entertaining. Although these baby delivery guide lessons are catered more towards fathers, they are also informative for mothers as well. I love it!

Be Prepared!

12/15/2008

~ alexjurek

This is a great lesson on everything from when to have the bag packed (early) to what to put in it (hint: you'll want a camera and extra batteries). The more prepared you are for the big day, the less panicked you'll be. DadLabs helps you to stay calm when "it's time!"

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