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Health information on the birth of your baby : early labour, stages of labour, vaginal birth, c-section and skin to skin contact.
Regardless of where you’re birthing and your intentions for pain management, it’s a good idea to educate yourself about the benefits and risks of each intervention. This knowledge helps you enter labour aware and informed, with a strong understanding of the options available and how they can help or hinder your labour progression, birth and recovery. Today we’ll cover all your options for managing labour pain, from natural methods to medical intervention.
Today we’ll cover what you need to know about the procedure, timing, benefits and risks of epidural pain relief to help inform your birth choices.
If your birth education has been limited to movie scenes on the hospital ward, chances are you presume that most women labour on the bed. However, if you’re interested in having a physiological birth (without pain relief or intervention) and you want to work with your body to navigate the intensity of contractions, the advice of almost every birth education, doula and midwife will be simple: don’t get on the bed.
Shoulder dystocia occurs in a vaginal birth when the baby’s shoulder is stuck behind the mother’s pelvic bone but the head has already been birthed. It’s considered an emergency but your care provider will be trained in navigating the complication to ensure your baby is born promptly and safely.
If you’re currently pregnant, you may be feeling quite overwhelmed by the advice that everyone seems to throw at you. It’s a lot, isn’t it. And while it’s well-meaning, it often leads to confusion rather than clarity.
Regardless of where you’re birthing and your intentions for pain management, it’s a good idea to educate yourself about the benefits and risks of each intervention so you go into labour aware and informed, with a strong understanding of the options available to you and how they can help or hinder your labour progression, birth and recovery.
As you get closer to your estimated due date (EDD), ideally your baby will be in a head down position. If your baby is upside down – with either their bottom or feet closest to your cervix and their head up towards your ribcage – they are in a breech position. It’s very normal for your baby to turn from breech to head-down throughout your pregnancy.
Choosing the correct size birthing ball for pregnancy can be tricky. Here are the key things to keep in mind for choosing your yoga or exercise ball for use in pregnancy or birth.
Birth can be a positive, empowering experience. However, for some women, labour and birth (both vaginal and caesarean birth) can be traumatic and can lead to both physical and mental trauma.
An episiotomy is a surgical cut to the perineum during the second stage of labour that’s performed on around 24 per cent of Australian women during a vaginal birth. Episiotomies are used to enlarge the vaginal opening, particularly if a baby is showing signs of distress and needs to be born quickly. It may also be suggested if your care provider believes you’re at risk of a severe tear.
An induction can be overwhelming but there are some practical things you can do to prepare for a positive experience.
Often getting in the car and arriving at the hospital is a disruptive process and it can and often does induce stress
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