A good health care provider will take as much time as you need to talk over your questions and concerns before and after you’ve undressed.They sit down and talk to you about questions or concerns before you get undressed, talk you through an exam and make sure you have all of your questions … [Read more…]
What are Your Pain Relief Options for Labor?
It’s no secret: contractions hurt. Real gripping discomfort is the main way you can tell labor contractions from the Braxton-Hicks kind. While there are actually no nerve endings inside the uterus there are a lot in your pelvis and around it. During a contraction the uterine muscles tighten and pull … [Read more…]
Had One Induction, Will I Need Another?
This is my second pregnancy. with my first i was induced. Will that happen again or will I go into labor normally this time?” To know if you’re at risk for an induction again you need to find out why your first labor was induced. Make sure that your health care provider has a copy of your records … [Read more…]
Eight Ways Dads Can Help During Labor
Deal (calmly and firmly) with hospital staff and family. If you’ve hired a labor assistant she (or he) will take on the task of making sure hospital staff and family follow your partner’s wishes when it coms to visits and medical interventions. If not it’s up to you to be your partner’s … [Read more…]
Do You Need a Birth Plan? What Should You Include?
A birth plan is basically a list of what you do and don’t want during labor, birth, and after. Of course you don’t need to have one, beyond 1. show up at hospital or stay home and 2. have baby, and of course no one can never know in advance exactly how birth is going to go. And if you give birth at … [Read more…]
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