Her mother is a registered nurse and a childbirth educator at Baptist Hospital in Miami.

Sarah Fenner, a childbirth educator in San Francisco and mother of two young sons, was found to have breast cancer last year at age 34.

Arm yourself with the telephone book, suggestions from your childbirth educator, friends, or family with ties to the medical community.

Dayna became a childbirth educator and La Leche League leader after the birth of her first child.

Many doctors hailed the finding, but some childbirth educators, midwives and other advocates of natural childbirth found it troubling.

Janet Balaskas is an author, founder of the Active Birth Movement, and childbirth educator.

Referrals also come from childbirth educators, nursing mothers groups, and La Leche League.

She is a mother, and has worked in alternative medicine as a midwife, herbalist, nutritionist, and childbirth educator.

A nurse at the hospital where Alaina would be delivered, Raquel Beucler, arranged private classes with a childbirth educator.

This loose alliance of childbirth educators and control-freak parents makes a fetish of the perfectly orchestrated birth experience.