Giving Austin Labor Support (GALS) is an official 501 (c)(3) non-profit volunteer organization which seeks to provide emotional and physical support to
families during their birth experience.
As members of Prima Medical Group, the Midwives of Marin are pleased to offer a practice that fully integrates the midwifery model of care throughout your entire pregnancy, including prenatal care in our Prima OBGYN offices and
during your birth experience at Marin General Hospital's Family Birth Center.
Your baby just has a diaper on, hopefully, and then your chest is bare and we call that skin to skin contact, and we know the more skin to skin contact, the more likely breastfeeding is going to be successful, and that means that baby is going to latch, baby is going to start breastfeeding right away, as long as you don't have too many medications, or any
trauma during the birth experience that's going to keep your baby from breastfeeding right away.
It's also important to have an open and honest dialogue between partners and professionals about each person's
role during the birth experience so that everyone is on the same page from the beginning.
During my birth experience, I felt a lot of stuff, from that sinking - stomach feeling you get while plunging down a huge roller coaster, to gut - squeezing cramps, to even a few moments of pleasure.
There is no right or wrong way to give birth, and each woman has unique needs before and
during her birth experience.
The more relaxed the mother remains, the more comfortable she is
during the birth experience.