In preparation for developing the curriculum content,
one of the instructors took the March of Dimes
multiples-focused continuing education modules
entitled Care of the Multiple Birth Family: Pregnancy
and Birth and Care of the Multiple Birth Family: Postpartum
Through Infancy (Bowers & Gromada, 2006).
She also had professional experience working with
mothers of multiples through years of teaching infant
and parenting classes. The faculty then chose the
InJoy DVD series More of Everything,
which accompanied
the text Preparing for Multiples, The Family
Way (Carter, Green, & Amis, 2008), to be used as the
curriculum resource and audiovisual support for the
class. The first week’s class topics included labor and
birth, cesarean surgery, and postpartum care. The
second week focused on infant care and included a
tour of the maternity services patient areas (labor
and birth, postpartum, nursery).