The organization provides childbirth education to families, provides recommendations for health-care providers and practices, advocates for birthing rights, and proposes ways to protect physiologic birth. The Bradley Method is childbirth education that includes nutrition, exercise, knowledge of medical interventions, and continuous labor support.

Essential to the Bradley Method is the support person for the laboring person The philosophy is grounded in the fear-tension-pain cycle, the idea that fear causes tension, which then causes pain; therefore, if a person can reduce fear, they can reduce pain.

childbirth education — becoming educated in the process of pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum and newborn care. Bradley Method — childbirth education that includes nutrition, exercise, knowledge of medical interventions, and continuous labor support. philosophy — grounded in the fear-tension-pain cycle, the idea that fear causes tension, which then causes pain; therefore, if a person can reduce fear, they can reduce pain. physiologic birth — birth that occurs vaginally and without medical intervention.