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Questions and Answer

• Pregnancy: Answers to your pregnancy and preconception questions can be found here.
• Fathers & Pregnancy: How can you support her, how do you deal with your feelings? Do you really have to go to class? These are just some of the topics covered here.
• Labor & Birth: Will you know when it's time? Can you predict who will have a cesarean? How much does it really hurt?
• Postpartum: The ups and downs, the pains, the nagging questions left behind. Let our CBE answer your questions about this time in your life.
• Newborns & Babies: Why does she look like that? Is it normal for him to...
• Childbirth Education: Becoming an educator, finding an educator, which class and more!

Karen Klimsak-Ungar, CCE has been a certified childbirth educator for Birth Works® since 1996. She is currently Managing Editor for the Birth Works newsletter, sits on the Birth Works Board of Directors, and serves on their National Trainee Review Committee. A happily married mother of two, she also continues to teach Birth Works classes as well as private classes.

Karen will answer your questions on fertility, pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and babies. Her advice does not take the place of your practitioner. Personal answers will not always be possible.