Sentences with phrase «in having a positive birth experience»

She got to make choices and feel empowered by her decisions, one of the key factors in having a positive birth experience.

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Positive stories shared by women who have had wonderful childbirth experiences are an irreplaceable way to transmit knowledge of a woman's true capacities in pregnancy and birth.»

All in all, I wish I spent less time in my early pregnancy watching YouTube videos and reading blogs and worring about fighting with the hospital and doctor, and more time doing what I'm doing now: talking to people who actually live where I do and have given birth at my hospital, who had positive experiences.

If moms take some time to learn about their choices and take an Independent Childbirth Class (not hospital based) or read GOOD books (not WTEWE) then they will be in a better position to have a positive birth experience which can empower them!

I think it is in all how they present it - hopefully it will be well presented that birth can be a positive experience, and not so much that women are now having orgasmic births, & you are missing out if you don't have one.

I had a wonderful birth experience in the hospital, and that included the medical intervention I was given... I tested positive for strep B and was given antibiotics, which were neccessary for the health of my son.

For the most part, doulas were associated with helping women in pregnancy and birth have a positive experience through education and support.

There are some practical steps you can take to not only determine if VBAC is right for you, but also prepare for having a deeply positive vaginal birth experience that will have you feeling empowered in your own capabilities.

I do think working with a midwife, but in a hospital that supported natural child birth and caring, respectful nurses made it more possible and likely that I had positive and minimally invasive birth experiences.

- Pain relief and mobility: The warm water in which a water birth occurs can have several positive effects on the delivery experience of some expecting mothers.

In her book A Good Birth: Finding the Positive and Profound in Your Childbirth Experience, Anne Lyerly, MD says, «I have been around birth long enough to know that a birth's «naturalness» (or what some advocates call «normalcy») is as misleading a metric of the «good» as is medical outcomIn her book A Good Birth: Finding the Positive and Profound in Your Childbirth Experience, Anne Lyerly, MD says, «I have been around birth long enough to know that a birth's «naturalness» (or what some advocates call «normalcy») is as misleading a metric of the «good» as is medical outBirth: Finding the Positive and Profound in Your Childbirth Experience, Anne Lyerly, MD says, «I have been around birth long enough to know that a birth's «naturalness» (or what some advocates call «normalcy») is as misleading a metric of the «good» as is medical outcomin Your Childbirth Experience, Anne Lyerly, MD says, «I have been around birth long enough to know that a birth's «naturalness» (or what some advocates call «normalcy») is as misleading a metric of the «good» as is medical outbirth long enough to know that a birth's «naturalness» (or what some advocates call «normalcy») is as misleading a metric of the «good» as is medical outbirth's «naturalness» (or what some advocates call «normalcy») is as misleading a metric of the «good» as is medical outcome.

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.

I'd love to share my motivation in choosing a home birth too, which was to maximize the odds of a positive birth experience for me and my baby, while minimizing the chance of unnecessary intervention.

You can choose to have a positive birth experience with the help of the new GentleBirth App and enhance it with my Weekend Workshop - held monthly in Cork.

And just in case you need some convincing, research (like this and this and this) has shown that women supported by a doula are: * more likely to have a spontaneous vaginal birth * less likely to ask for pain medication * less likely to have a cesarean birth * more likely to report a positive birth experience * more likely to have a decrease length of labor

Our founder, Donna Ryan, had seen the positive impact that doulas had in the birth experiences of her couples.

Having my family with me, and health care professionals who really respected my choices and acted in a caring manner were only part of making my birth experience so positive.

Society may still be slightly more inclined to give out medals to women who achieve a DIY vaginal delivery while making disparaging comments about women who are «too posh to push,» but the fact remains that if a baby is born healthy and a woman has had a positive birth experience, the prospect for their future health and relationship is equally good, and for most mothers, that's all that really matters in the end.

Charlie believes that women still have an innate ability to give birth without intervention and strives to make a positive difference in the total birth experience for new mothers.

My wife & I had such a positive childbirth class experience in most part because we found a class that reflected our values: We wanted to learn how to gain more control of childbirth decision - making, how to make sure our birth plan was being considered, and how to enjoy the process as much as possible.

I knew before I went into labor that having Lynn in the room would ensure that we would have the most positive birth experience.

Nikki Reed, Katherine Heigl, January Jones, Alicia Silverstone, Holly Madison and Padma Lakshmi all had their placentas encapsulated and turned into pills to take after giving birth, too, while Kim Zolciak - Biermann and Gaby Hoffman say they ingested theirs in smoothie form — and they all had positive things to say about their experiences.

I appreciate hearing other women's birth stories and I especially love reading stories from other women who have had a positive experience with birth because I feel that it is rare to hear stories that look at giving birth in a positive way.

A mother who has had a beautiful and empowering birth experience will have an especially positive association in her mind and emotions to that child; and a baby who has had an easy, non-traumatic, not painful, gentle birth will have an especially positive association to the parent.

Hiring a house in order to be in the catchment for DOMINO homebirth, asking for a new health care professional in labour, changing hospitals, challenging policy — women are becoming more proactive in their approach of navigating the system in order to ensure that they get the most out of their maternity care and have a healthy positive birth experience.

Many mothers have incredibly positive birth experiences, but many mothers in Ireland do not.

Additionally, after the fact, women who had supportive birth partners tend to view their birth experience in a more positive light, and some research even shows that they...

Additionally, after the fact, women who had supportive birth partners tend to view their birth experience in a more positive light, and some research even shows that they have less post-partum depression, and breastfeed easier.

I still struggle with my experience, but have decided to use it in a positive way, and to let other women know about hospital births.

I am a doula (in my free time) and absolutely love helping women have positive birth experiences since I know first hand how deeply birth can affect women (in good and bad ways).

I gave birth to two of my three children in France (the third in Switzerland), and had an all - around extremely positive experience.

Women who had a positive thyroid test were more than twice as likely to experience placental abruption, a complication in which the placenta separates from the uterus too early during birth.

Thinking of modern times, rather than my mother's and grandmother's generation in which home births were the norm, I have had a few friends and relatives who gave birth either at home or in a birthing center and all reported a positive experience.

New mothers and fathers who felt like their parenting styles were similar had more positive moods and experienced less depression in the months following the birth of their first child.