All Entries in the "Labor & Delivery" Category
Knowing about C-section
A C-section, or a cesarean section, is the surgical method of giving birth wherein the delivery takes place when the mother’s lower abdomen and uterus are operated upon. Mostly, it is done to avoid the emergency complications, but sometimes it is planned too. Since it is a major abdominal surgery, it takes longer to recover [...]
How to prepare your first born for a new baby
Welcoming a new baby at home is not an easy job for your child. First off, your child is likely to be envious of the baby who takes away all the attention from him. Secondly, as a parent, you will be completely focussed on your new born and your child will start feeling neglected. [...]
Factors Influencing the Labor Pain
Labor is not the same experience for all the women except for the pains associated with it. Emotional and Physical factors also have an impact on labors.
Emotional Factors
If you are emotionally week then negative thoughts can increase your anxiousness. Emotional Factors which generally contribute to your perceptions about pain are:
Feeling that you may suffer a [...]
Emergency Home Birth
Though it is not very common, but sometimes, you may find yourself in a situation where you show no signs of labor a few minutes ago but now, feel a sudden urge to push, signaling the arrival of the baby. It can happen anywhere, at home, in a party or even in the backseat of [...]
Healing Body after Vaginal Delivery
It is a truly incredible process when the body of a “just-delivered” woman comes back to its normal pre-pregnant state. The body reverses all the changes which took place in the last nine months with a matter of weeks. Here are some of those changes:
Postpartum “rainfall”
Take 7-9 pounds of the baby, add a pound of [...]
What scares the expecting mothers during childbirth? – Part 2
Labor is the most difficult time of the entire period of pregnancy and women have various apprehensions about it. It is especially difficult for the women because of the various medical interventions and steps followed by doctors that are not known to a lot of people in general. We have discussed some such fears in [...]
What Scares the Expecting Mothers During Childbirth? – Part 1
As the due date comes closer women tend to become anxious. Although there is not much to e scared about but lack of knowledge and fear of the unknown makes the situation difficult. Few of the most common things fear that women have are mentioned below.
Prolonged Labor
If you are also one of the women who [...]
What does the baby feel during Labor? – Part 2
As we talked in the previous part of how Mother Nature has made everything so perfect that it becomes very difficult to believe about the complexities of the human body. The birth of a baby also seems like a miracle. Let us try to dig deeper into this and try to understand what does the [...]
What does the baby feel during Labor? – Part 1
There is a lot of talking going on everywhere and all the time that how does the mother feel during labor, what should she do when contractions occur, how should she position herself etc. But have you ever thought what does the baby goes through when labor starts. Let us try to find out experience [...]
Signals that Indicate You Are in Labor
Contractions
As the due date comes closer women become more anxious and confused between a real and a false contraction. The labor like contractions is just the preparation of the real thing which is going to come soon. The preparatory ones do not hurt as much as the real ones. Sometimes the actual contractions are so [...]
Some interventions that could ease the Process of Labor – C-Section
Some women know about the procedures from the pregnancy classes they attend but the percentage of such women is very small. Thus, most of the females entering the delivery room do not know anything about what is going to happen to them next. Although, you may not be interested in knowing how different equipment can [...]
Some Interventions that could ease the Process of Labor – Vacuum and Forceps
Many doctors will not take up the topic of the possibilities of a medical intervention during the process of birth, and you will have to yourself get this out of them. If you hear during the delivery that vacuum will be used to take the baby out you do not have an option then. Although, [...]
Some Interventions that could ease the Process of Labor – Pitocin & Episiotomy
All pregnant women know that life is going to be little difficult but until the end no one likes the intervention of medical procedures. Most of the females expect that they will very soon feel contractions which will slowly rise in frequency and intensity and finally end up giving the birth.
But it does not happen [...]
Do you have a Preterm Labor?
As the due date approaches most of the women feel anxious about the labor. There are a lot of cases when the labor occurs much before than it was expected and these are the signs that you could probably have a preterm labor. Most of the preterm babies are born during the period of 34 [...]
When is the Right Time to go to the Hospital
The discussion here is only about those pregnant women who are carrying a full term baby with head down (vertex presentation) and whose water is not broken.
Till now you must have experienced some of the occasional irregular contractions but these are just Braxton Hicks which are painless and subside easily. But these are just the [...]
Signs of Labor
There is no way of predicting when the labor will start. Some women notice when their body starts preparing for the labor while some don’t. The only thing you can do is to watch out for some of these signs.
The middle “lightens”
This happens a few weeks before the delivery. Your baby ‘drops’ into the pelvis [...]
Why do Childbirth Classes have Low Turnout these Days?
Childbirth class started with the intention of education people that childbirth is not an illness that requires medical intervention and treatment. It became a movement to eradicate the notion that its not about stupefied by drugs during labor and if you wish there could be people accompanying you in the delivery room during the child [...]
How can a Pregnancy Prep School Help You? – Part 2
Pregnancy Prep schools are the best way for any expecting parents to learn about the intricacies involved in the process of pregnancy and get rid of their anxieties. When you join a prep school you get to know a lot of things and also get a chance of mingling with other couples. These prep schools [...]
Childbirth Classes and You
There was a time that child birth classes were considered to be the best source of getting information on labor, pregnancy and birth related issues. But this generation of new parents has many other avenues where they have easy access to a lot of such information. The participation in these classes have steeply dropped and [...]
How can a Pregnancy Prep School Help You? – Part 1
Prenatal classes are a great way of mingling with other expecting couples and get all your doubts clear about questions related to labor, delivery and care of a new born baby. But the big question is how should you choose the right prep school for you?
As a first timer it is a great experience attending [...]
