Today’s topic is on what are the best types of noises to make while pushing? Audio is better to demonstrate pushing I got this great email today with this question and I was typing up an answer to respond to the question, and I realized what I really need to do is make a podcast […]
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This is one of the most common questions I get. I will say that most un-medicated moms don’t end up needing any guidance with this. Especially if it is not their first baby. Their bodies just take over and do it! Kind of like sneezing – it is really hard NOT to sneeze. It is
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This is a great post on OP babies. I love how this midwife takes a fairly neutral position on this position. 🙂 She explains how it works and some tips on how to deal with it. I especially loved this: Reinforce the woman’s trust in her body and baby to birth. Discuss the possibility that
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Pushing seems to be something moms have lots of questions about. I love this post on Science and Sensibility’s Blog – It has posts from many different birth bloggers about pushing. Have your questions answered here!
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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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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I need to write a whole blog post about my pushing. When I was birthing Bryson and my husband was filming it, I never though it would end up on You Tube! My DH didn’t want the whole thing out there, so I cut that out of the You Tube version. I do show the
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This birth story exemplifies how a good birth can change and become stressful during the pushing stage, if care providers insist on purple pushing. Mother directed pushing is much gentler and frankly most un-medicated moms do not need any direction in how to push. Their bodies know what to do! We need to get out of their
