Sentences with phrase «pelvic outlet»

In order for the human infant to safely pass through its mother's small pelvic outlet, which is an architectural requirement to walk upright, the infant has to be born with only 25 percent of its adult brain volume.

The combination of increased brain size and a mother's narrower pelvic outlet (due to standing), caused a major change in human's gestation length.

Oxytocin triggers the primal birth instincts and and allows your partner to play a supportive role and reduces the risk of interventions by correcting mal - positions, opening the pelvic outlet wider, reducing shaking and pain, and increasing the mother's comfort.

How much more effective will birth be when you utilize the pushing position that as much as doubles the size of your pelvic outlet for ease of birth?

Squatting can really open up the pelvic outlet to let your baby come down.

Squatting during labor can open up a woman's pelvic outlet up to 10 percent while helping create more room for a baby to move down into the birth canal.

Squatting is helpful during labor because it opens the pelvic outlet an extra quarter to half inch, allowing more room for the baby to descend.

Try to discover which positions or postures open your pelvic outlet.

Exercises will include drawing your pelvic floor up into your pelvic outlet and holding it for endurance as well as short, quick contractions; strengthening your lower abdominals (transversus abdominus) while drawing your pelvic floor up toward your belly button; and also strengthening the support muscles of your deep hip rotators, your lower back and your inner thighs.

The second action is to elevate or to draw up the pelvic floor from its relaxed position (in this state, it's shaped like a bowl) to a flattened, tighter position, higher within our pelvic outlet (the space bordered by our two sit bones, our pubic bone, and our tail bone, also known as our coccyx), giving better support to bladder, bowel, and uterus.

The pelvic floor consists of muscle, nerves, fascia (connective tissue) and ligaments located at the pelvic outlet, running from the tailbone to the pubic bone, and between the sit bones.

The best way to maximize the endurance of our pelvic floor elevation is to draw your pelvic floor up into your pelvic outlet, as if there were a string attached from your belly button to your pelvic floor, and you are attempting to pull it up as high as you can.

You will know that it is too stressful if you feel a significant downward force within your pelvic outlet.

When doing the two - step Kegel that I teach on the Hab - It: Pelvic Floor DVD, you will begin to feel how your TA is activated every time you work to draw your pelvic floor up into your pelvic outlet.

Hold this Kegel contraction as you visualize yourself elevating your pelvic floor up into your pelvic outlet.

It is this pelvic floor that is the soft tissue barrier closing off our pelvic outlet.

Preparing your body for pregnancy to increase the space in the pelvic outlet (obstetrical conjugate) and yield of the pelvic floor muscles can help to decrease the amount of force required to get the baby out (read less Valsava - ing), as well as prevent perineal tearing for the best po...