Sentences with phrase «choose labor positions»

Choose labor positions, like squatting, that help speed the process.

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Women who choose natural birth use positioning, relaxation and other comfort measures to aid them in labor.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

Things are circulated there as truth — «You only have one position you can labor in at the hospital,» «You can't make noise at the hospital,» «At the hospital they'll try to force drugs on you that will hurt your baby» — that aren't true, and so many women who choose home birth think they are making a choice that will give them more «control,» when really they'd have all those same options at the hospital (multiple labor positions, noise or no noise, no drugs if they want) and MORE.

In her childbirth classes Janet Balaskas stands for activity rather than passivity, for movement rather than immobilization, and for a woman's right to choose whatever position she finds comfortable throughout labor and delivery.

The positions that you choose in labor will help or hinder your progress.

Modern women who choose a natural baby delivery tend to favor laboring in an upright position to take advantage of gravity, much as they did in ancient times.

Through decisions made haphazardly 60 years ago, «we chose as a country to staff our labs primarily with graduate students and postdocs and a few non-tenured staff people, while other countries have permanent ways of staffing their labs,» often with PhD staff scientists in career positions, says Georgia State University economist Paula Stephan, an authority on the academic labor force.

The freshly chosen Labor government is yet to announce their environment minister, and one wonders if it will be Peter Garrett, who held the position whilst in opposition.