Sentences with phrase «have a water birth because»

Many women choose to have a water birth because it is more gentle on the baby and reduces stress for the mother.

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Freeman decided she would orchestrate a water birth because it «seemed like the best option for the situation» and «the easiest to clean up,» she told INSIDER.

«So let me get this straight, you have two - way conversations with invisible spirits, you think the earth is 10,000 years old, you believe the world was once covered in water (about 5,000 years ago), you believe your invisible sky father came to earth in human form after a virgin birth, then rose as a zombie, from the dead, then ascended into an invisible sky city... all because the first people on earth ate and apple before proceeding on with decades of incest... am I getting this?»

It is estimated that infant mortality could have been as high as 1 in 5 at the beginning of the 19th century when many infants were fed a flour and water «formula» instead of being breastfed — not necessarily because of inherently dangerous birth practices.

My birth was nothing like I had hoped, labored in bed on my back because they couldn't monitor the babies if I moved, had to have pitocin and later an epidural (I could stand the pitocin, it was the fact that no one does a breach delivery any more that, just in case Twin B didn't turn after Twin A was born), puking in the operating room because I couldn't even have a single drop of water on my tongue while laboring strapped down (talk about understanding what hell is like!)

My midwife immediately gave her sterilized water which she absolutely guzzled, then made a bottle (in secret because the birth Centre midwives would have frowned upon it!).

(It was later determined that I must have picked up an infection because my water broke around midnight and I didn't give birth until just after 3 p.m.) I didn't feel well for a few days and was on an anti-biotic when we were discharged.

Because of the ability to relax and to have a gentle second stage, pushing, most mothers who have a water birth have fewer tears and require fewer stitches than their counterparts who give birth outside of a tub.

Water birth was introduced because women wanted it, and babies have been seriously harmed as a result.

You skewed my words regarding «managing» my birth... the whole point of the midwife is to alert the mother of the possibility of a problem, just like an OB so then a proper course of action can be taken... I was merely saying that they don't think of birth as a medical emergency from the beginning, requiring things that are unnecessary, like constant monitoring because it's easier than intermittent monitoring, or restricting maternal intake because the doctor could get puked on, or have fecal matter excreted during delivery is selfish (and yes, I know, the mother could aspirate, but the rate of that is low too... and I'm not saying they need to eat a steak dinner... but denying a drink of water, or a popsicle during a long labor is just ridiculous, as is rushing a natural process for convenience sake.)

If a baby «lacks water» because of his birth date, a character representing water in his name would make up for that shortcoming.

I had a birthing - center birth in Texas and paid $ 3,000 for total care and delivery, plus an additional $ 175 because I chose a water birth.

I remember discussing with him that I didn't really want him messing around too much and to get the birth pool set up pretty quickly because it would take a while to fill up with water.

One site I read said that during a water birth because, as you said, the baby is still receiving oxygen from the mother via the umbilical cord this means the baby can have its head out of the birth canal but can wait to take a breath.

And another Mom said: «I had no «ring of fire» but maybe because my midwife and I applied a lot of pressure, it was a water birth, and I birthed her very slowly.»

... we have a high water birth rate here, mostly because we have this water birth room, which is available with tons of hot water and a big beautiful tub and so essentially if I get them in the room, I get them in the water, I'm listening to the baby, I shut the curtains around the tub, I turn the lights down and I just give them that hour, like 1 to 2 h of kind of privacy where I'm sneaking in to listen to the baby.

I still feel a bit sad that I wasn't awash with the awe of birth from the start, and I wish that my named midwife had been on duty (she was off after an unrelated injury), because she knew that silence was necessary for me to feel calm, and I wish that my birth supporters, who also knew, had been a bit more vocal for me, but, in the end, what was most important to me — that I birthed my baby peacefully, at home, in water — happened.

I had booked for a home water birth, which the hospital had been reluctant to agree to, because I developed gestational diabetes, (this was treated with Creative Healing on my pancreas from 30 weeks onwards and blood sugars rapidly returned to normal levels), and I was told that the baby could be hypoglycaemic.

Because giving birth in water requires that you not experience a reason to be removed from the water — so not funny fetal heart tones, no meconium, whatever the criteria were that would make a woman leave the water.

This was not a problem in the water birth studies because, as I have said, they were all reporting basic neonatal assessments from the medical record.

You also know how they let me have my water birth and how I nearly pulled the taps off because I was pushing so much.

We should have known that things would have been so over the top ridiculous, from a home birth transfer, losing water, no air conditioning, tongue tie, cleft palate, jaundice, hypoplasia to postpartum depression because come on, you can't name your baby «Story» and not expect one to accompany her.

When my contraction starts, the midwife told me that I couldn't have water birth as no one on night shift was able to do it, specifically because no one can kneel down to do the birthing process.

It was okay though because I had a plan for an all natural water birth and so far even though labor was long, nothing was changing my plan.

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?

We talked about water birth and I told them how appreciative I was to have had the birthing tub available because it was instrumental in coping with the pain.