Birth plans are ideas and expectations that you have about the birth of your baby. The term birth plan can actually be misleading - it's less an exact plan than a list of preferences. In fact, the best thing about a birth plan isn't that it allows you and your partner to determine ...
When you’re getting ready to have a baby it can be hard to decide on a birth plan—where you’ll deliver your baby, who will deliver it, and more. This is a very personal choice for many parents. What’s a birth plan? It's exactly as it sounds—a birth plan is your labor ...
The first points I saw were for hastening labor. Since I did not want to be in labor, I passed on those and found some for pain relief. I was not in much pain, but I began to press on those points every time I had a back pain. The back pains kept coming, but I kept hoping ...
We finally arrived for the third time at the birth center and Holly had the tub all set for me to go. She wasn’t going to check me just yet, but said I should hang in the tub while she slept for a little while. I was in heaven. I labored in the tub somewhere between 12 and...
fine and I was as calm as could be. As time went on, however, I became more and more tired and uncomfortable so I began to ask for pain relief. That was also ok until I started to go into transition then the pain became very acute and I don't think I was really ready for it....
5 Essential Tools for your Labor Bag No matter what your birth plan is, having tools packed in your bag to that can help manage labor is always a good idea. Whether you’re planning for a natural birth or you know you’d like medications for pain relief, these basic tools and tricks ...
If I were to get pregnant again (I am 37), I would immediately approach our doctors Rodrigo and Graciela and plan for another home birth. It was an amazing experience…. A lot of people have approached me after giving birth and cannot believe that I had a vaginal birth after C-Section...
1. Plan it. Absolutely have a dream birth and write it all out if you want to. While so many well-meaning friends, docs, and childbirth educators tell women to “stay open” she says there’s still a place for being very clear about what you want.”To the call for flexibility I sa...
President at the time, believed that the Allies (联盟) should plan for peace before the war ended. On December 1, 1943, Roosevelt, Britain’s Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin from Soviet Union agreed to start an organization for world peace. 39 During the next year and a half, the ...
While few of the research participants of the present study faced such biological barriers to reproduction, they certainly did plan their family formation. A recent study conducted by Pain (2020) examined the family practices of LGBTQ + polyamorists and considered how these families both ...