Birth Ball = ???

I had a nurse tell one of my Hypnobabies students this, during a hospital tour.

You can bring a birth ball, but you may not want to sit on one during your birth it can cause your cervice to swell.

Really?  What is she basing this judgement on?  A birth where a mom had a swollen cervix and she had been sitting on a birth ball?

I have never heard of this before.  Have any of you?  I told the mom it was likely just an experience the nurse had and was a one time thing.  That she should sit on her birth ball if it felt good to her.

On another note, my big boys were visiting their grandparents this summer and helping them plan a family fun day.  My oldest said, “We should get a birth ball and roll it down the hill.”  My mom wasn’t sure what a birth ball was, he explained and she realized it was an exercise ball.

My boys are very well oriented to birthing terms.   They will make great birth partners one day.