There is a good chance you will be walking the halls to
keep labor progressing, or entertaining visitors in your hospital room.
This increases brain activity during a time
when labor progress relies on a woman's primitive brain instincts.
Discuss with your caregiver any concerns he or she has with letting a
slow labor progress without intervention.
Doing these few things may help labor along, even though they may not
help labor progress quickly.
If you understand
how labor progresses, and are knowledgeable about the risks and benefits of various interventions and the different types of pain management, you will be better prepared to make informed decisions.
For example, it may be necessary to revisit the definition of labor dystocia because recent data show that contemporary
labor progresses at a rate substantially slower than what was historically taught.
The researchers defined active phase labor arrest as 1 cm or less
of labor progress over 2 hours in women who entered labor spontaneously and were at least 4 cm dilated at the time arrest was diagnosed.
When a women is in pain or afraid, the body produces adrenalin and may produce less oxytocin, a hormone that
makes labor progress.
For example, it may be necessary to revisit the definition of labor dystocia because recent data show that
contemporary labor progresses at a rate substantially slower than what has been historically taught.
The pressure of the baby on your pelvis may then prime your cervix for labor — or may help
labor progress if you've already felt some contractions.
However, more recent data from the Consortium on Safe Labor have been used to revise the definition of contemporary
normal labor progress (20).
Some posterior
labors progress only with the help of a highly - trained pregnancy bodyworker or deep spiritual, or otherwise non-conventional, model of care.
Babycentre suggests that it's best to use this to help
labor progress once it's already underway.
Whether labor progresses smoothly, or an emergency means constant monitoring, what a doctor does during L&D can affect more than just mom's attitude.
* Provide a wide variety of non-pharmacologic labor support techniques which both
enhance labor progress and decrease pain;
Our Bradley class helped both of us know what to look out for
as labor progressed, and assisted my partner in learning concrete ways he could be helpful so that on the day of, when I would be increasingly less able to think about anything other than how intense my contractions were, he'd have some frame of reference for what is going on as well as ideas of what to do to help me as I labored.
The mechanism of labor and birth — physically and psychically including the Holistic Stages of Labor, the relevance of cervical dilation, the descent, flexion and rotation of the baby and the emotional and physical signs
of labor progressing.
I used a birth ball during labor with both of my own kids, and I credit it with
helping labor progress as well as with relieving my aching back.
That might help tease out some of the questions about whether the pitocin is causing the depression or merely being used in women who have decreased oxytocin levels or receptors to help
with labor progress, who also happen to be at risk for depression.
Labor contractions build in intensity as
labor progresses, which is why pain relief may be needed.
Your wife may develop a different view on abstaining from anepidural as
the labor progresses.
As
labor progresses and becomes more intense, my role picks up, Dad and I are a team in supporting Mom.
You will also learn how to use positions with an epidural to help
your labor progress, like how to use a peanut ball.
I will suggest measures to help
your labor progress smoothly or make labor more comfortable for you.
As the cervix dilates,
the labor progresses and ultimately the baby's delivered vaginally.
I was surprised at how quickly
my labor progressed.
This visualization worked so well, that my son came out almost too quickly once
my labor progressed.
As
your labor progresses, the contractions of labor will change the cervix.
Would everything have worked out if I just let
the labor progress?
I can provide reassurance and perspective to you and your partner, make suggestions for
labor progress, and help with relaxation, massage, positioning and other techniques for comfort.
The Labor Progress Handbook.
As
labor progresses, a woman's ability to move freely in warm water will improve the speed of her labor.
Many women find that they start with a lower intensity but that it goes up as
labor progresses.