Sentences with phrase «labour and birth encourages»

Using water during labour and birth encourages reduction in pain, greater mobility that comes with buoyancy, induces relaxation and reduces abdominal pressure.

Not exact matches

We've long offered a childbirth educator and / or doula - led complement of workshops to encourage a more informed choice of birth options from interventions, comfort measures in labour to delivery and breastfeeding classes.

What is not yet clear is the relative contribution to birth outcomes of health professionals» attitudes, continuity of carer, midwife managed or community based care, and implementation of specific practices (such as continuous emotional and physical support throughout labour, use of immersion in water to ease labour pain, encouraging women to remain upright and mobile, minimising use of epidural analgesia, and home visits to diagnose labour before admission to birth centre or hospital).

Some of her specialists suggested the reality of a c - section and encouraged her to take an epidural from the beginning so they could control the labour better, but she wanted a natural birth and stuck to her guns.

Dr Motha, who's comitted to encouraging women to opt for natural births and self - hypnosis techniques during labour, hailed the project as a great success.

For those who don't know this is the scenario in which medical staff, through their interventions (including but not limited to breaking her waters and an augmentation of labour we hadn't consented to) to «encourage» birth in a fixed timescale which suited them and the hospital actually end up having a counter-productive effect ending up slowly but surely in an emergency c - section in our case, or an instrumental delivery.

For an amazing article on this moment of «return», and of the other parts of the birth process, we encourage you to check out The Holistic Stages of Labour by Whapio Diane Bartlett, who we quoted above.