Sentences with phrase «comfortable labor positions»

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The hospital pillows don't provide enough height and support to get the baby into a comfortable nursing position, and your arms may be tired after labor.»

During the labor and birth of your baby, your Doula offers help and advice on comfort measures such as breathing techniques, relaxation, movements, and comfortable positioning.

Water births allow free movement and let the mother find a new position where she feels more comfortable during 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.

As many women are now opting to not use epidural anesthesia or to at least delay it until later into labor, they are finding that the use of positions can help them stay much more comfortable in labor.

Your childbirth educator will also show you how to manage your contractions and use a variety of positions and other techniques like comfort measures, positioning in labor and more to stay more comfortable in early labor, perhaps before an epidural or IV pain medications are allowed.

You will learn to mimic your nighttime sleeping position and breathing for use during labor and to use relaxation techniques to make labor more comfortable.

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

The position which is most comfortable may depend on the woman and what part of labor she is in.

You'll be more comfortable, your labor will progress more quickly, and your baby will move through the birth canal more easily if you stay upright and respond to your pain by changing positions.

With your oversize middle, it can be tough to find a comfortable sleep position, especially as you near labor day.

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.

Midwives are experts in supporting the physiological birth process: monitoring you and your baby during labor, helping you into positions that help labor progress, protecting your pelvic parts from damage while you push, and «catching» the baby from the position that's most effective and comfortable for you — hands and knees, squatting, even standing — not the position most comfortable for her.

When you get to transitional labor, many times side lying positions are going to be most comfortable and allow you to get a little bit of rest as well.

They're free to move and get in any position that they want, that helps them feel most comfortable during their labor.

A queen sized bed help you find comfortable positions during labor and cuddle up with the whole family once the baby comes.

Use the Pelvic Compass to learn to create space & movement within your unique pelvic structure so that while in labor, you will be able to instinctively assume positions that allow the baby to easily navigate & descend through your pelvis as smoothly as possible, keeping both you and your baby relaxed & comfortable.

Plus, it is easier for laboring women to move and find comfortable positions in the water.