Free tool · For perinatal professionals
Labor Comfort Measures Teaching Planner
Pick a session length and the comfort topics you want to cover. The planner times the session, gives you a short script and a teach-back question for each topic, and prints a plain-language handout for the family.
- Free
- No signup or email
- Works right on this page
- Nothing you enter is sent anywhere; saving is your choice
A teaching aid, not a protocol. It plans patient education only: no clinical recommendation for a particular patient. Your unit’s protocols and your own clinical judgment come first.
Planning a short teaching session
The planner starts from the time you have: 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 or 3 hours. It reserves an opening and a closing teach-back, then shares the rest across your topics by how much there usually is to show, so movement and partner holds get more time than a quick word on hydration. If you pick more topics than the time comfortably allows, it says so and still fits the plan to your length.
Measures and when to teach them
The topics follow the course’s own learning list: coping in early and active labor; helping families feel safe, calm and informed; hydration, nourishment and rest; movement and positioning; family dynamics with cultural awareness; and involving partners with confidence. Where a script repeats a practical detail, it names the source: the American College of Nurse-Midwives “Am I in Labor?” handout for early-labor coping, the Obstetrics Initiative labor-support tip sheet for the birth ball sequence and sizing, and BBU’s counterpressure article for the partner holds.
Teach-back questions
Each topic comes with one teach-back question that asks the family to show or say what they will do, such as “Partner, show me the hip squeeze and hold it for a whole contraction.” They print as a numbered list for the end of the session, so you can check understanding rather than ask “any questions?”.
About the CEU class
This planner is free and is not the CEU course. Comfort Measures for Perinatal Professionals is a separate, self-paced virtual course for doulas, nurses, midwives and perinatal professionals; its page states 3 Nursing CEUs upon successful completion and a comprehensive digital workbook. Its learning list is the structure this planner uses.
Adapting the session to your setting
The same plan works for a group class, a one-to-one prenatal visit or a doula’s home visit. Choose “a partner or support person learning to help” when the main learner is the partner, and the opening shifts to what they already know. Bring a birth ball for the movement topic and let the family practice rather than watch; the teach-back questions are written so they can show you. The printable handout repeats each topic in one or two plain sentences for the family to keep.
Questions people ask
Is this the CEU course?
No. This is a free teaching planner. The CEU course is separate; its page states 3 Nursing CEUs upon successful completion.
Can I use this with patients directly?
It is a teaching aid for patient education. Your unit’s protocols and your own clinical judgment come first.
Does it save my plan?
Only if you choose. Nothing is sent anywhere. It stays in your browser until you print or close the page, unless you press “Save on this device,” which keeps a copy in your own browser.
Why not a CEU tracker?
This planner supports what the course teaches: planning a real teaching session. It does not track or certify CEUs.
Sources
- American College of Nurse-Midwives. Am I in Labor? (Share With Women patient handout), Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health 48(4). Published 2003. Checked October 9, 2026.
- Obstetrics Initiative (Michigan). Moving our Mamas Labor Support Program Tip Sheet (PDF). Posted February 2024. Checked October 9, 2026.
- Birth & Baby University. The Comfort Measures for Perinatal Professionals information page (linked above). Checked October 9, 2026.
- Birth & Baby University. Counter Pressure and Hip Squeeze: How To Cope During Labor (article). Checked October 9, 2026.