She has plenty of tricks up her sleeve to help support you during lots of different
kinds of labors and births, whether they are natural or medicated.
Not exact matches
OB - GYN Dr. Christiane Northrup, midwife Ina May Gaskin,
and childbirth educator Debra Pascali - Bonaro all agree that under the right circumstances, i.e. when a woman is relaxed (
and in my opinion very comfortable with her body),
and due to the huge hormonal changes that occur in the body during
labor, a
kind of birth ecstasy is possible.
In a home
birth you usually don't have to go to the hospital (though there's at least a 1 in 10 chance that you will), but you or yours have to buy all
kinds of crap beforehand (birthing pool, pads for protecting your bedsheets from blood...), then clean up after
labor, make food
and clean up after each meal, talk with the midwife or whoever is attending you (husband??)
A recent review
of a number
of scientific studies compared outcomes for women who had three
kinds of labor support during
birth: nursing staff support, family / friend support,
and doula support.
Before you give
birth, you'll want to think carefully about questions like what
kind of pain relief you want during
labor and what you want to pack in your hospital bag.
A
birth plan will outline what you hope to happen during your birthing experience like who you want in the room with you, what
kind of props you desire to help you through the contractions (such as music to listen to or pictures to look at), what
kind of pain medications you may want to take to ease your
labor pain,
and the overall mood you hope to achieve in your birthing room.
Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor
of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards
of intellectual rigor or merit (the
kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal
and amniotic flora
and poor outcomes in
labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications,
and a review article published in a trash journal.
This is exactly why I require every one
of my clients to take some
kind of birth class so they are more prepared for what will happen during
labor and will hopefully learn some valuable information as well as some coping skills for
labor and the newborn period.
It's
kind of bothering, though, knowing that I never have
and never will experience a normal
birth — normal as in having my water break, going through the
labor,
and pushing.
Even if you had the perfect
labor and birth, the doctor manhandling your newborn
kind of ruins the overall experience.
Do you have questions about
labor and giving
birth: what
kinds of medications are available; home
birth or hospital
birth; c - sections
and all they entail?
Sears, William & Martha THE
BIRTH BOOK Little, Brown, 1994 This definitive guide to birthing includes topics such as physical
and emotional preparation, lessening the discomfort
and speeding up the
labor process, the father's role, how to select the
kind of birthing environment you want,
and more.