Sentences with phrase «of having a positive birth experience»

But if we take the time to prepare ourselves, and find good support, we can maximize our chances of having a positive birth experience, while still ensuring that both mother and baby are safe and healthy.

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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.»

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.

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

Home birth, mama is a nurse for maternity home health company, faced opposition but support from immediate family, had some formative and transformative experiences that were precursors for a deciding on a home birth, devoured much research on positive births and home births and empowered herself with it, lots of visualisation, hand s and knees swaying, followed the urge to moan and it felt good, bath, natural endorphins produce a feeling as «high as a kite», felt her own baby, skin to skin bonding, ready to have another one!

If you are well - informed and well - supported, no matter what the outcome of your birth (natural childbirth with no medical intervention, pain relief, induced labor, or Caesarian birth) you are more likely to have a positive birth experience and to be more present to your newborn child.

Also, you significantly increase the chances of having a more positive birth and postpartum experience.

Of course, you can never be fully prepared for childbirth, but playing out the different possible scenarios and creating a birth plan based on what you would prefer to happen, will help create a more positive birth experience for all involved.

- 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.

All of these factors have a positive effect on birth experiences and are lasting well into parenting.

There are a lot of factors that affect breastfeeding success and many women overcome them, as you overcame the feeding delay after birth to have a positive experience.

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 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 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.

Since her own very positive experiences, she had been inundated with enquiries from friends and through La Leche League and the Irish Childbirth Trust, and she decided that here was a need for an organisation to give information about and promote the option of home birth.

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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

Some of you may be reading this and thinking «I have made my choice as to care provider and I don't feel I want to change that now, are there any other choices that I can make so that I can get the care I want and the most positive birth experience possible?»

I just wondered what you thought about a woman's right to a positive birth experience, especially when — correct me if I'm wrong — women who have traumatic experiences have higher rates of post natal depression?

Working with hospitals, not for them and not against them, will help increase the number of families having a more positive birth experience.

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

However, having a positive birth experience can make for an easier transition into parenthood and can also reduce the chances of postpartum depression.

You may not have a positive birth experience, but the government may not prevent you from going into the difficult, dangerous and unknown with an optimistic frame of mind or from seeking the care you desire.

Having a positive birth experience can be even more healthy, not just for the physical well being mom and newborn, but for their state of mind.

Obstetric care providers have assumed that control of pain is the foremost concern of laboring women, and that effective pain relief will ensure a positive birth experience.

I'm so proud of you for taking positive steps to have the birth experience you desire!

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.

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.

We could not have asked for a more positive birth experience and know that much of this is because of Allison's support to our family.

We could not have asked for a more positive birth experience and know that much of this is because of High Country Doula's support to our family.

One of the two recently developed midwife - led units has been threatened with closure on the grounds of scarce resources [7], despite evidence from a randomised controlled trial demonstrating that they are actually cost - effective [8], with overwhelmingly positive birth experiences reported [9].

Many women have a positive view of this phenomenon and end up looking at it as part of the whole labor and birth experience.

Doulas are truly amazing and have been credited with many positive side effects, including lower cesarean section rates when they are present as well as higher satisfaction with the birth experience on the part of the women they serve during childbirth.

This may sound counter-intuitive, but women who used epidural pain relief have less positive feelings about their birth experience than women who use no medical pain relief.7, 8 No matter what methods of pain relief a woman used, low levels of pain have not been found to be associated with high levels of enjoyment during labor.9 So what matters for a good birth experience?

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.

By focusing on the positives of my birth experience I've been able to approach brother's birth with a clean slate.

When we take ownership of our needs and care options for pregnancy and birth, we are more likely to have a healthy positive birth experience.

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If you have a healthy pregnancy, take this short assessment form, regarding your likelihood of having a healthy, positive natural birth experience.

While many women have reported very positive experiences at birthing centers, a number of hospitals have begun to change their attitude towards labor and birth practices to make sure that women are just as happy with their hospital experience.

Instead of seeking out experienced moms who had positive, exciting, gentle births, I had allowed myself to be duped by health care practitioners and our culture's fallacies.

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

She had a positive experience and has excellent insight into the importance of proper birth positioning.

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.