Sentences with phrase «comfortable birthing position»

With a home birth, you have the freedom to move as well as the ability to choose the most comfortable birthing position possible.

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Therefore, in the birthing center, midwives help mothers to find a position where they feel more comfortable while encouraging them to perform various exercises to manage pain.

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.

A birthing pool is used to achieve comfortable positions during labor, while also providing the warmth that helps a woman in labor relax.

The mother can get into positions she feels most comfortable with, whether it be on her hands and knees, squatting or reclining in a birthing chair or tub.

Your midwives will help you find the most comfortable position to deliver in — this could be sitting, kneeling, or leaning over a birthing ball.

More than that, it felt like I had embraced my body for what it was — after all, you get pretty comfortable with yourself after sitting in birthing position for 25 minutes straight.