It cannot cross the blood-brain barrier to give all of these positive effects. Beta-endorphin, is a powerful little helper you may have never heard of. Beta-endorphin also has protective effects on your baby, helping him or her stay safe during the work of labor 9. It pairs with oxytocin and creates that euphoric rush that many mamas describe after a natural birth.
That euphoria is not selfish. It also creates safety and helps the mama-baby pair establish breastfeeding. Use these 11 proven natural childbirth techniques to handle labor and keep things moving right along. Get them here. It can really shut things down. Your body will push your baby out very efficiently — and all by itself. Nature had the design finished — no bed and stirrups needed! Seriously, when your body starts to push you feel that urge to push involuntarily, but your uterus is going to push with or without you.
As with oxytocin and beta-endorphin, a mama is much more likely to experience this natural hormone surge when things have not been interrupted by procedures, policies, and even forced positions in other words, ditch the stirrups. You want to let those end of labor hormone surges happen. There are more hormones involved in birthing for instance, the breastfeeding hormone prolactin increases near the end of labor and helps encourage further oxytocin release and promote stress relief and mama-baby bonding.
But this fourth secret is going to focus on how to get these hormone levels where you want them. Sometimes a mama and a baby really do need medical intervention. Acupressure labor is an ancient technique of inducing labor naturally.
By sending neurological signals to the uterus, cervix, and accompanying birthing organs, acupressure allows for a safe, easier, and pain-free birth. Medical induction of labor is not necessary if your pregnancy is full term and healthy. Find out how you can have an easy, natural, fast, and pain-free birth using the same book that helped me deliver my beautiful baby boy.
You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Every pregnant woman needs to know that these six evidence-based birth practices make birth healthier and safer for mothers and babies.
In most cases, the best way to insure that the baby is ready to be born and the mother's body is ready to birth her baby is to let labor begin on its own. In the last weeks of pregnancy, the baby moves down into the pelvis, the cervix softens, and the uterine muscle becomes more receptive to oxytocin. The baby's lungs mature, and he puts on a protective layer of fat.
Every day makes a difference in how mature the baby is and how well he is able to make the transition to life outside the womb. Elective labor induction not only increases the use of analgesia and epidural anesthesia but also the incidence of nonreassuring fetal heart rate patterns, shoulder dystocia, instrument delivery, and cesarean surgery. It is not without risk for the baby either, increasing the need for neonatal resuscitation and increasing the likelihood of low birth weight and admission to the neonatal intensive care unit.
Although women are told that if a baby is thought to be large it is safer to induce labor early, this is not true. Suspected macrosomia is not an indication for induction, and induction for suspected macrosomia does not reduce the incidence of shoulder dystocia and is associated with an increased risk of cesarean.
Every pregnant woman needs to know that it is healthier and safer for both mother and baby to let labor begin on its own. Moving in labor helps women cope with strong and painful contractions while gently moving the baby into the pelvis and through the birth canal. The pain of contractions can be a guide to the laboring woman as she moves in response to what she feels, trying to find comfort as the contractions become increasingly strong.
Finding comfort in a variety of ways, including movement, helps labor progress. When women are able to cope with increasingly strong contractions, increasing amounts of oxytocin are released, and this keeps labor progressing. Movement in response to pain also protects the baby and the birth canal, especially during pushing. Research supports that walking, movement, and changing positions may shorten labor, are effective forms of pain relief, and are associated with fewer nonreassuring fetal heart rate patterns, fewer perineal injuries, and less blood loss.
Walking during the first stage of labor decreases the likelihood of cesarean surgery and forceps and vacuum extraction deliveries. Every pregnant woman needs to know that walking, movement, and changing positions during labor help labor progress, enhance comfort, and decrease the risk of complications.
In labor, women feel better when cared for and encouraged by people they know and trust. For most women, that means family or close friends. Family and friends support the laboring woman in simple but important ways: protecting her privacy, helping her get comfortable, creating a cocoon that helps her feel safe and protected. This is especially important in the unfamiliar and often overwhelming hospital environment.
In recent years, doulas have provided continuous emotional and physical support for laboring women and their families. Doulas have the advantage of knowing labor and birth well and knowing countless ways of helping women find comfort and feel protected and safe in labor. This experience is a big advantage, especially in restrictive hospital environments.
Research findings demonstrate that labor support reduces the likelihood of requesting pain medication, reduces the likelihood of having severe postpartum pain, and increases the likelihood of having a spontaneous vaginal birth. Women who have continuous labor support are more satisfied with the birth experience, have fewer cesareans, and are less likely to use Pitocin during labor ;. Every pregnant woman needs to know that continuous emotional and physical support in labor makes birth safer and healthier for mother and baby.
In most hospitals, women routinely have an intravenous line, continuous electronic fetal monitoring, and an epidural. Most hospitals also restrict eating and drinking in labor. Each of these practices has the potential to interfere with the process of labor and birth and create complications. Intravenous lines and electronic fetal monitoring restrict women's ability to walk, change positions, and find comfort as the contractions become increasingly painful.
Food and fluids are typically restricted to prevent the extraordinarily rare occurrence of aspiration if general anesthesia is required. If women are able to eat and drink in labor, there is no need for intravenous lines. No research suggests that labor and birth are safer if food and fluids are restricted and intravenous lines are in place.
In fact, increasing evidence indicates that the routine use of intravenous lines may contribute to fluid overload in labor. The routine use of continuous electronic fetal monitoring compared with intermittent auscultation increases the likelihood of instrument vaginal delivery and cesarean surgery but does not reduce the incidence of cerebral palsy, stillbirth, low Apgar scores, newborn death rates, or admission to the neonatal intensive care unit.
In essence, the routine use of electronic fetal monitoring increases the risk of the mother having a cesarean with no difference in outcome for the baby. Epidurals interfere in the process of labor and birth in important ways. Because there is no pain, the brain does not get the message to keep releasing oxytocin. We have your bases covered from merging and splitting, to rotation and conversion.
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