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It sounds like you already have a GREAT idea to me! I've just been using a chart that shows the "ripple effect" of how one leads to another. I'm thinking that I like what you're describing much better. If you stack them like you're thinking about, it sounds kind of like that game, Jinga. If you started with smaller boxes on the bottom, and then get bigger and bigger as you go up...that could be pretty cool. Just be careful that they don't fall too early every time, however, or you might never get to use most of those interventions. OR.....(you'll have to excuse me, 'cause I'm thinking as I'm typing this out)....you could do it several times while having the clients pick differing interventions each time in different orders. Either way...it's gonna crash! Let us know what you choose to do and how it works! I'm trying really hard to become more interactive, myself. Oh...this would be great to use in peer teaching at a PfB seminar too, I would think.
That sounds like an awesome idea! What you have is GREAT! But I was just brainstorming about it and was wondering if there was a way..maybe....Um..hmmm. Lol Like if you have a big cereal box that said 'epidural' on it. and then smaller cereal boxes inside that show what else they might get with this 'pretty' package. Like 'continuous fetal monitoring'. 'confined to bed'. 'continuous IV', 'slowed labor', etc. I know it doesn't really SHOW a crashing or ripple effect, which is probably more effective. I was just thinking out loud. Lol
We did a demo of inducing labor in cbe training that could be used for the cascade effect (great way to talk about both at the same time). She wrote each thing on a regular sized piece of paper (colorful paper) and attached a long piece of yarn to it. The other end of the yarn had a piece of tape. When she decribed each thing she taped the appropriate yarn end to the appropriate body part...first you get an IV, tape that to the back of the hand etc. She had the members of the seminar holding up the different signs but you could easily tape them to the wall behind if you made the strings long enough (or something to that effect). So after all is said and done she (or he, I would do it to the dad) can see how many thing will be attached which will inhibit movement as well as discuss each step of induction/each intervention. And the cascade effect is the same as an induction without the pit! lol You could combine the two and use the boxes and the yarn. Just a thought.
Christy, Are your clients visual? I like a snippet from BORN IN THE USA where a lady who's tired of being pregnant and who has mild ctxs get pit, then her membranes ruptured, of course she's on the monitor, and so on until she has a c-section.
Neither the mother nor her doctor give any indication that Mold & Stein were right, other than "some women just can't birth vaginally".
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Actually, with things falling at different times that could show how ending up with an 'emergency' cs is a big probability with the interventions...how the more things start getting wobbly...you're getting wobbly with keeping with your birth plan...
Also, be sure NOT to use a mom with taping stuff to her. There was some study done about moms who were the cs patient in childbirth classes were ending up with cesareans. Someting subconsious perhaps...
I think your ideas are great though!
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Also, be sure NOT to use a mom with taping stuff to her. There was some study done about moms who were the cs patient in childbirth classes were ending up with cesareans. Someting subconsious perhaps...
I heard this same thing!! Thats why I say to use a Dad or other support person. Plus it could interject a bit of humor into a scary discussion.
What about showing it as a "ripple" effect. You have something fall into a pool of water, the wave from that causes the next thing to fall over, and the next and the next??? I think this would be bulky and potentially messy and inconvenient to set up, but it could be done...say in a big pan of water or something????
What about dominos? Just plain ones with the different interventions taped or decoupaged onto them? they could branch off into different possible scenarios and then make sort of a circle to all meet at an emergeny c at the end, KWIM? Might be easier to carry? Let us know what you come up with! I just met with a potential client last night () and we talked alot about interventions; her fear of an emergency c because of them, etc, and how we can do different things in the prenatals to show how that can be avoided...this could be a REALLY cool visual. Keep us posted!
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Do you really need help?
I've just been using a chart that shows the "ripple effect" of how one leads to another. I'm thinking that I like what you're describing much better. If you stack them like you're thinking about, it sounds kind of like that game, Jinga. If you started with smaller boxes on the bottom, and then get bigger and bigger as you go up...that could be pretty cool. Just be careful that they don't fall too early every time, however, or you might never get to use most of those interventions. 
OR.....(you'll have to excuse me, 'cause I'm thinking as I'm typing this out)....you could do it several times while having the clients pick differing interventions each time in different orders. Either way...it's gonna crash! 
Let us know what you choose to do and how it works! I'm trying really hard to become more interactive, myself. Oh...this would be great to use in peer teaching at a PfB seminar too, I would think. 
Like the cascade effect...
Rhea 
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Let us know what you come up with! I just met with a potential client last night (
) and we talked alot about interventions; her fear of an emergency c because of them, etc, and how we can do different things in the prenatals to show how that can be avoided...this could be a REALLY cool visual. Keep us posted! 
Stacie, where are you???
