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FIMRC Anconcito supports the local obstetrician, Dr. Katherine, in her weekly psychoprophylaxis classes for pregnant women. These classes are designed to provide education, psychological and physical conditioning, and breathing classes in order to prepare the women for a safe delivery. Dr. Katherine, along with FIMRC staff and volunteers, currently provide the women with charlas on nutrition during pregnancy, the benefits and importance of breastfeeding, warning signs during pregnancy and other educational topics. We also do exercises, stretches, and breathing exercises with the women to help them relax, ease aches and pains, and strengthen their muscles for delivery. We are lacking in materials to facilitate these exercises, and currently the women use plastic chairs and towels on the floor to complete them. Exercise balls and mats to lie on would make the experience for the women infinitely more comfortable and enjoyable, and would also allow them to learn new types of stretches and exercises they currently cannot do.