Not exact matches
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.
Another compelling reason for me to
have a homebirth is I
'd like to labor and possibly
birth in
water and my midwife
has a birthing pool that we can set up right in our house.
When you're doing an intense physical activity
like giving
birth, your body needs lots of
water and food, so I was really glad to be somewhere — home — where I didn't
have to fight any outdated protocols in order to eat and drink.
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!)
Consider where you
would like to give
birth — for example, many women prefer giving
birth at home in warm
water, through a process facilitated by a midwife led team
A good example
would be breaking your bag of
waters and wedging your baby in a position that makes a vaginal
birth more difficult or impossible,
like a posterior baby.
Another compelling reason for me to
have a home
birth is I
'd like to labor and possibly
birth in
water and my midwife
has a birthing pool that we can set up right in our house.
Dude, science
has shown that
water birth is dangerous, but even a lay person
like Henci Goer could figure out that submerging newborns in fetid poop
water is probably a horrible idea.
I stay home with my kids right now, and I homeschool, but when they are grown I will probably go back to school, and obstetrics is a field I
've considered just so that maybe I can make a bit of a good difference, and give women the best of both worlds (
like a
water birth, in a hospital with a doula or midwife with an OB on staff or back up in case something went wrong.)
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.)
These types of papers were common when
water birth practice was first developing and at the time they were appropriate methods to share practice details — kind of
like reporting an implementation project we
would do today.
... 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.
«We
would like a more permanent facility but that is not likely until we get more
water births.
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?
I
'd like to labor in
water birth, but my birthing center
has no
birth pool.
Like Earth, Mars must
have received a lot of
water at
birth; some researchers think the plains that cover most of its northern hemisphere were once the bed of a vast, shallow ocean, filled by cataclysmic floods of
water cascading out of the southern highlands.
If you
've destroyed your gut bacteria with: SUGAR (the kind in Girl Scout Cookies), Processed Refined Foods (
like a Girl Scout Cookie), Antibiotics, Cortisol / Stress, chemicals in
water (fluoride, chlorine, etc),
birth control pills, anti-inflammatories, acid suppressors, or Splenda, you
've likely impaired your bodies ability to break down and get rid of «old estrogen»; back into the system the estrogen goes instead of being pooped or peed out of you.
Make sure you drink
water from clean sources,
like spring
water, (so to avoid pharmaceuticals,
like birth control, which
has the estrogen EE2 that isn't being filtered out and we are constantly dosed with), and of course soy, particularly soy protein, as well as avoiding foods in plastics (you
've heard of BPA and BPS?