Oh, I'm
sure water births are great in many ways, but that's not what happened at my house.
Not exact matches
Its ritual absolutes and rules look legalistic, rubric - mad today: but they spoke with a
sure confidence of the sacramentality of life, the rootedness of the sacred not in pious feelings of «spirituality,» not in our heads or even exclusively our hearts, but in the gritty and messy realities of life,
birth, death,
water and stone and fire, bread and wine.»
Be
sure to get a
water - based lubricant, especially if you're using a barrier method for
birth control, since oil - based lubricants can weaken latex and cause a condom to break.
If you are having a home
water birth, you need to take some practical considerations into account; for example, you need to think about the space you have available for the pool and make
sure you have a floor which is solid enough to take the weight of the pool when it is filled with
water.
The Business of Being Born was one of the most impactful things I watched when first pregnant with my oldest daughter and it planted the seed, I felt totally
sure that a natural home
water birth was what I wanted and it called to me.
If you do give
birth in
water, be
sure to have lots of towels on hand for both you and your new baby to keep you both warm.
Be
sure to check out our pregnancy section and if you are up to it, feel free to read about my home
water birth story!
After an amazing
water birth at home, my midwife spent the next 2 hours observing, doing the mama / baby check - ups, and making
sure I was eating and breastfeeding properly.
Especially if your are giving
birth in
water at the hospital or at the birthing center make
sure to talk with your midwife about all the process as there are some rules and regulations they have to follow during
water births.
Make
sure baby is completely under the
water during
birth.
I'm gbs positive too so I was not
sure if
water birth was an option.
The
water helps the woman, but it
sure doesn't help the
birth attendant.
I suppose doctors / midwives would use hot
water to sterilize things, but I'm pretty
sure the reason women wanted the hot
water at
births was for a different reason.
We cast a wide net to be
sure that if there was a study that reported evidence of poor outcomes for with
water birth, we wanted to find it.
Sure, labor pains may be eased by some of the positions the mom - to — be can get into on the ball, and a
water birth may make for a more peaceful entrance for baby, but in the mind of the doctors and hospitals, the risks far out way the benefits of either one.
I'm
sure you can think right away of some potential confounders, like comparing
water birth women to women being treated for gestational hypertension who were not allowed to use the
water.
Hospitals and
Water Births If you are interested in having a water birth, be sure to find out which, if any, of the hospitals is equipped to honor this req
Water Births If you are interested in having a
water birth, be sure to find out which, if any, of the hospitals is equipped to honor this req
water birth, be
sure to find out which, if any, of the hospitals is equipped to honor this request.
If you are considering it, be
sure that your care provider's decision for or against
water birth is based on facts, not feelings.
Make
sure you drink
water from clean sources, like spring
water, (so to avoid pharmaceuticals, like
birth control, which has the estrogen EE2 that isn't being filtered out and we are constantly dosed with), and of course soy, particularly soy protein, as well as avoiding foods in plastics (you've heard of BPA and BPS?
You don't have to do anything when it's giving
birth, just make
sure it has access to fresh food and
water as usual, and give more high protein food such as mealworm, boiled chicken, or tofu.