Ten tips to ensure that births are smooth and easy

Our own life revolves around giving birth for a long time. Over the past twenty years I have taken about a thousand births. Marta works as an instructor in the preparatory courses and several times attended the birth of friends as an assistant. She herself went through birth seven times( our eighth child is an adoptive).

From what we happened to see in the delivery rooms, we brought out one generalized idea of ​​how the delivery should take place. It is true that ideal births are as rare as infants sleeping nights are, but in your power to do some things that will allow you to get close to the sorts you want. We want to share with the future moms the rules that almost always help out during childbirth.

1. Choose the most suitable doctor for you. Mom, treat your kindred with all responsibility. Look for a obstetrician-gynecologist with a flexible approach. Of course, both to yourself and your child, you are obliged to provide a doctor competent enough and experienced to cope with unforeseen complications that may occur during childbirth. This is a medical-surgical approach. But in fact, what if the maternity hospital in your city or the center of obstetrics and gynecology does not offer this saving power to the mother of the option? Answer - ask

. Who gives birth? Who pays for services? The requirements of the consumer had a huge positive effect on the system of obstetrics. You should never hesitate to ask for good medical care.

In the past few decades obstetrics has become a science, but has lost the grace of art. The 1990s are a golden age for midwifery - when it's time to have a baby.

viability only 10 percent of births should be attributed to this category. The second approach that you should look for in your doctor could be formulated like this: "Birth is a healthy, not a pathological process, and we will help you create an environment in which delivery can take place naturally."In fact, you and your doctor form a unity, whose goal is to develop a generic philosophy. You pay for scientific knowledge of obstetrician-gynecologist , and for the art of midwife. You are worthy of both.

1 Special note: Be flexible. Suppose that childbirths are not quite the same as the scenario you wrote, and in some cases this is the case. Trust your obstetrician so that you can move away from what you have planned if it does not work, and if it is in your child's best interest and in your best interest to seek medical attention or surgery.

2. Choose the right setting for delivery. The recommended option for most women is a separate ward in which a woman prepares for childbirth, gives birth and then restores. Everything happens in the same room. Such a chamber is more than just a room. It is an atmosphere that insists on the continuation of life, and the attitude to sorts as a natural process. In the delivery room of this type, a home environment is created, which seems to say: "Rest while you are here."Lighting is soft and adjustable. The windows are large, soft armchair and calls to descend into it, and the medical and surgical equipment is conveniently located, but unobtrusively. Absolutely the home bed is soft, spacious and adjustable to facilitate childbirth. One side of the room is a miniature living room where a couple can spend time with their newborn. Visit the delivery room and observe for several minutes after birth. Talk with the nurses and midwives. Does your room give you a cozy feeling? But do not attach decisive importance to the brilliant interior design decision. The experience and attitude of the medical personnel who will take delivery from you is much more important for your well-being and the health of your child.

Individual maternity wards are better for the mother - better for the child. The calm and cozy atmosphere of a separate ward can alleviate pain, speed up the progress of the fetus and increase the chances of delivery without complications.(Childbirth in a traditional ward such as a surgical operation causes fear and tension, which leads to a frightening situation for women in labor - an inability to give birth to a fetus - and the result is often long, difficult labor and surgical intervention.) More importantly, the Rebbe Ten tips tochildbirth went smoothly and easily

1. Choose for yourself the most suitable doctor.

2. Choose the right setting for delivery.

3. Use the services of a professional assistant.

4. Move on.

5. Do not lie down on your back.

6. Use technology wisely.

7. Look for alternatives to anesthesia.

8. Think of vertical delivery.

9. Avoid episiotomy.10. Try to give birth in water.

the note remains right where it should be - in the same room as the mother. If the local maternity hospital does not offer this option, ask or contact another maternity home! Never be afraid to demand a better medicine for yourself and your child. The maternity home, planning to stay in their business, obligatory offer this option.

3. Use the services of a professional assistant. A recent study by Dr. Kennell and Dr. Klaus( the pioneers of the notion of establishing contact with the newborn) showed that mothers, during the birth of whom a professional assistant( assistant) was present, had 8 percent of cesarean sections versus 18 percent in the control group who did not have an assistant during childbirth. In addition, only 8 percent of women in the experimental group required epidural anesthesia versus 55 percent in the control group. Even the children won. Only 10 percent of the children in the support group needed to stay in the hospital compared to 25 percent in the control group. Science finally confirms what midwives have known for a long time: children and mothers are better if a woman helps a woman to give birth.

4. Move on. Move as your body tells you. Get up and walk when your body tells you to walk, and stop when your body tells you to stop. Walk freely throughout the room, retiring to a quiet corner, when there is a desire for solitude, hugging your husband, when you need the support of strong hands, leaving the corridor, if it facilitates discomfort and contributes to the progression of labor. It is important that you understand that the environment in which you are, people who are with you, do not mind that you move on the signals of your body and that you are not guided by the opinion of strangers and stereotyped positions of births.

5. Do not lie on your back. Delete the scene from the memory when the mother is lying with her feet fastened to the hard table, and the midwife is sitting comfortably, half-turned, and waiting for the child to pick up. Births on the back from a medical point of view are unjustified. This is dangerous for the child, because in the supine position on the back, the heavy uterus presses on your blood vessels, making it difficult for the blood supply to the uterus and the baby. This also does not benefit the mother, since the delivery of the pelvis on the back narrows and the mother has to push the baby up.(The squat position widens the pelvic canal through which the fetus is pushed out, vertical genera help to come to the aid of the force of gravity.) The lying position on the back also increases pain and slows the process of fruit release. The pelvic muscles, from which during the passage of the child through the birth canal, need to relax, in the position on the back, the legs are upward tense. This position also predisposes to ruptures of the birth canal and unreasonable episiotomy.

6. Use technology wisely.

Electronic monitoring of the fetus, if necessary, should be performed by telemetry, which allows you to move freely around the ward. If an intravenous infusion is required, require a portable dropper( device attached to the needle that allows you to do without long tubes and gives you the opportunity not to be tied to a tripod tripod, but to walk freely in the room).

7. Look for alternatives to anesthesia.

Epidural anesthesia, if there is a desire or need for

it, should be done at such a time and so as not to slow the delivery. Anesthesia is a dubious benefit. Although it weakens the pain, do not forget that you lose the ability to stand. You have lost a valuable helper - gravity.(Alternative you will find in tip number 10.)

8. Think of vertical delivery. Women, stand up for their rights. Give birth in the arms of the husband, that someone supported you, squatting, on all fours or lying on his side on the bed. Having tried these positions and following the urges of your body, let the gravity help your child get out and relax muscles. Whatever position you have, you can try it;but necessarily vertical.

9. Avoid episiotomy. Obligatory episiotomy of all giving birth to women is completely unnecessary. Warm compresses, perineal massage and support, as well as lack of haste in the process of ejecting the baby and the correct position during childbirth in most cases relieve the need for episiotomy. Discuss with your midwife how to avoid this procedure. A week or two after healing a painful birth wound, while trying to focus on caring for a newborn, is not the best way to start a life with a child.

10. Try to give birth in the water.

Significantly simplifying delivery, this newest concept for North America is designed to make the birth more humane.

The reason that we attach so much importance to easy and safe delivery is that it begins with childbirth that begins life with the child. Too often, in our practice, we are faced with what we have dubbed the "bad start syndrome", which is that instead of the expected delivery, the mother received others. She spends the first days and weeks feeling that she "could not," and directs most of the energy of

to healing her own birth injuries, instead of using this energy to get to know her baby. In addition, as a result of difficult births, the mother and child are often separated from each other at this time of their lives, a time of primary importance, when both are in great need to be together. As a result, there are problems with breastfeeding, increasing the likelihood of a child's stress syndrome( anxiety and colic), and most of the time in the first few weeks the couple is in the process of solving problems, many of which could be avoided.