I ask that
about every hospital birth gone wrong.
Not exact matches
Saberhagen
went directly to the
hospital from the park, arriving in time for Drew's 2 a.m. feeding and keeping Janeane up until four carrying on
about the game, the Royals» comeback, the
birth.
Education during pregnancy rarely has anything serious to do with breastfeeding, and since breastfeeding is perceived by most pre-parenthood women to be a natural, instinctive thing instead of a learned behavior (on both mom & baby's part) if it doesn't
go absolutely perfectly from the first moments they may feel something is wrong with THEM and clam up
about it while quietly giving the baby the
hospital - offered bottle along with the bag of formula samples they give out «just in case» even if you explicitly tell them you're breastfeeding (which was my experience with my firstborn in 2004 and one of the many highly informed reasons I chose to
birth my next two at home).
It is important to ask
about the availability of the water
birth at the
hospital you are planning to
go to and to ask any questions
about giving
birth in water; you may find it useful to find out how many women choose to have water
births at the
hospital, how many staff are trained to deal with water
births and find out
about the potential risks of giving
birth in the water.
I was always too busy and sleep - deprived to notice much of what was
going on except that, and I was aware of some hostility between my fellow physicians or
hospital staffs and the home
birth nursing community and there were also some sort of publically exaggerated, you might say, conflicts between them but that was really
about as much as I knew
about it.
As time
went on, and she learned more
about the natural birthing process and the current state of maternity care (as well as reflecting on her unmedicated
hospital birth experience), she knew that she would not want to
birth another child in the
hospital, so as she and her husband Matt looked forward to conceiving their second child she had already decided on hiring a licensed midwife and planning to
birth at home.
Because I didn't hear
about it when I was pregnant and had my babies, and if it's been around for a while obviously the
hospitals that I gave
birth in never made any mention of it, so I'm assuming they weren't baby - friendly back then, but after I gave
birth I knew that a lactation consultant was
going to
go on to the, come into the room, well actually at the first child you already know the rounds, you know, what's
going to happen, you know, how long you're
going to be there, all that stuff.
Home
birth families are generally quite aware that
hospitals are full of germs, sick people, and put them at risk for poor outcomes simply because they walked through the door, but there isn't much discussion
about going beyond birthing in your own to germs, to making a concerted effort to
birth in a green environment.
An important thing to remember
about home
birth is that if something
goes wrong, you don't have the amenities and technology of a
hospital.
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.
Among the many reasons to take childbirth classes, is to learn
about birth basics, labor patterns and when to think
about going to the
hospital or
birth place.
SUSANAnd the difference for me with the
hospital birth was that when I
went there, it was all
about the
hospital and the doctors.
Peter and I talked
about what we wanted for the
birth and seeing as I had
gone through 2 previous rough
hospital births and we nearly didn't make it there with Hannah, the idea of a homebirth was very appealing to both of us.
So even though we should DARN RIGHT support and encourage more breastfeeding from moms who've given
birth and
hospitals should stop the bags with formula for SURE,
going so far as to throw it away because it is «nasty trash» and being snarky
about it is hurtful.
«Whether they had a home
birth, a
hospital birth, they
went into labor in the water or maybe even used a surrogate to become parents, they will be surrounded by people who want to learn
about their journeys together.»
We learn how the pregnancy has been
going, how involved your partner wants to be, we build a
birth plan in detail, we talk
about the ins and out of a
hospital or home
birth and we
go through our doula bag.
You should think
about a
birth control plan before you
go home from the
hospital.
If you are unsure
about the choices you would like to make surrounding your
birth options, or just want to know a little more when it comes to hospital birth practices, epidurals, c - sections, then The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer and Rhonda Wheeler is the book for
birth options, or just want to know a little more when it comes to
hospital birth practices, epidurals, c - sections, then The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer and Rhonda Wheeler is the book for
birth practices, epidurals, c - sections, then The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better
Birth by Henci Goer and Rhonda Wheeler is the book for
Birth by Henci
Goer and Rhonda Wheeler is the book for you!
They're losing weight and you're all kind of obsessed
about that initial
birth weight and then so to hear like ones to you, like all my babies were born in a
hospital, so once I left the
hospital, it's kind of like, well, they weighed less now and I really did have that 10 % in my head a lot because I didn't want to have to do formula, and so I just felt like it was, this weird challenge with my body like, can my body create enough colostrum to be able to support this, and what's
going to happen over the next couple of weeks, you know, they
going to tell me if this first pediatrician appointment that I've got a supplement.
Nicole will teach you comfort techniques for you and your support person, when to
go to the
hospital,
go through the stages of labour, talk
about home
birth or
hospital birth and learn what to bring.
Fortunately, my zen - like wife made me realize that even if this was the real deal, we were far from having to
go to the
hospital (You may hear in a
birth class
about waiting until contractions are
about five minutes apart, lasting a minute long, as a good indicator it's time to
go.
Blue's Clues has several
about Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper
going to the baby
hospital to deliver their little spice shaker babies (I KNOW, I KNOW), and Dora the Explorer has both a TV episode and a book
about the
birth of her younger siblings.
If the smell is off and if the color is greenish, she needs to
go into the
hospital or
birth center and alert the medical team immediately
about this development.
All out of
hospital birth is always
going to result in more dead babies than in
hospital birth simply for the lack of immediate access to an operating room, but home
birth with a CNM tends to only be
about twice as risky, whereas, thanks to these numbers from MANA, we know that using a CPM makes it at least 4.5 times riskier.
«We thought
about a home
birth, but we're not sure and we decided this time to just
go with a
hospital birth since our insurance will cover it better.
While I understand that a
hospital birth is not the choice of all moms, most first time moms are
going to
go through this type of process and being informed
about what is likely to happen may decrease their anxiety or even cause them to seek out alternatives to a
hospital birth.
Most people who say that have not
gone over their medical story with someone knowledgable
about home
birth, and are simply imagining that home would have been exactly the same as
hospital until the point at which the emergency happened.
Both of them fell in love with the
birth process after
going through it themselves with their first littles, and now between the two of them have experienced
hospital birth, water
birth (at All
About Babies, of course), home
birth and cesarean section, giving them a truly comprehensive understanding of the beauty in each and every
birth story
We did everything we could to keep her awake and so she was under the bile lights
about 12 hrs I think and her levels has started
going down but being in that state in the
hospital you loss like 17 % of her
birth rate in 3 days and so it's kind of scary for a while.
My water broke at 18weeks, no im 27weeks and 5days and in the
hospital, alot of people here are telling me differnt things
about breastfeeding like «its
going to be hard because your
going to be a month and a half early» some say «your milk will come though within 72 hours after
birth» and so on... Has anyone
gone though an early
birth and had problems breastfeeding?
Its comforting to know im not the only one, I was set to be induced with my fifth child on jan 1,
went to
hospital at 5 am, put on pittosin at 6, dialed slowly, and had painful contractions, Dr broke my water at 11, contractions even more painful, got the epidural at 12, labor did not progress, was dialated 3 cm all day, @ 8 pm,, Dr took me off pittosin for an hour to see if I would progress if we started over again, at 9 they hooked me up again, all night and just progressed to a 4, that next morning, still nothing, finally Dr said we need to do a c section, since my water was broken earlier the previous day, he was worried
about infection, finally
went to operating rm, it was so cold, I was shaking and crying, I was so scared, btw my previous 4 children were vaginal
births, I felt so guilty, thinking it was my fault my labor did nt progress.Finally I had her, when the Dr held her up for me to see, I started bawling, she was perfect, it was very emotional, she weighed 6 lb 4oz and 18in, Im very proud of her, and myself
What I disagree with our clinic
about in retrospect is that: a) I think induction at 41 weeks should be mandatory no matter what; and b) if homebirth is
going to be a reality, it should only be after you have established that you have a proven uterus, pelvis, etc... and if you had an absolutely «natural»
birth in the
hospital with ZERO interventions and complications.
From
birth control [the pill, NFP, TCOYF, abstinence, condoms, nothing at all], to home
birth versus
hospital birth, immunizations, the list
goes on and on - the main thing I want to convey to ALL people is to PRAY
about your decision, FERVENTLY!