Depending on your birth plan, you may also want birth setting and
labor support options included in your provider's plan.
Not exact matches
I think half the problem with the natural childbirth movement is this: They originally wanted some pretty reasonable stuff, like NOT being drugged unconscious, shaved, and / or forced to lie flat on their backs through the whole
labor, like being able to see and hold the baby right away, not days later, like having the
OPTION to breastfeed
supported.
This class will be a blend of lecture, video, demonstration and practice and will include, but not be limited to: Gestation and Anatomy, Preparing your Body and How to Adapt to Its Changes, Signs, Stages and Emotional Signposts of
Labor, Pain Management Techniques, Understanding Evidence - Based Care, Birth Preference Sheets (Birth Plans), Pain Medication
Options,
Labor Support (who should be at your birth), Understanding Medical
Support (Interventions) and Induction, Cesarean Birth and Prevention and Postpartum Health.
On September 2nd, HMN's Northern Virginia Chapter will host «
Labor Day 101,» a panel discussion about choices,
support, and
options in planning birth.
Topics include physical changes during pregnancy, signs and stages of
labor, when to call your provider, pain relief
options, coping methods and comfort techniques, the role of the
support person, induction, cesarean birth and postpartum changes.
Many women, through the
support of their significant other or
labor partner, their nurse, midwife or physician, choose this
option and feel empowered by this experience.
With the
support of your doula class, you demonstrate and explain
labor options to pregnant people.
Informational
support helps keep the birthing person and their partner informed about what's going on with the course of
labor, as well as provides them with access to evidence - based information about birth
options.
The guide will help you simplify the amazing process of pregnancy,
labor and birth offering women and their partners trusted information to understand
options and confidence to make decisions that
support the safest, healthiest birth possible.
Studies like this provide valuable scientific
support for yoga as a non-pharmacological
option for
labor pain management.
While we
support the right of all board members to pursue their legal
options, our mission stands independently as a
labor of love in memory of Beverly Carter.