2nd stage

Is Mother Directed Pushing Possible in the Hospital?

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I love Lamaze’s 5th Healthy Birth Practice: Avoid giving birth on your back and follow your body’s urges to push. Their video is great, but here is an example of what more likely happens in a hospital setting. Polly is having a wonderful un-medicated hospital birth – things have progressed quickly and the staff has […]

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Breathing Your Baby Out

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Pushing… By “breathing baby down”, we mean that moms are breathing, “aaaahhhhhh” to open their throats, because we know that if their throats are open and relaxed so are their bottoms. Through a process called peristalsis, our ‘gut’ which is one continuous tube, ‘communicates’ from one end (the mouth) all the way down through

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