Giving Birth In Hospital
Now that you are pregnant one of the things you have to decide is whether you will birth in hospital, home or Birth Center if those are available in your area. Few women choose to birth in a taxi so let’s just stick with the birth choices available.
You can feel confident about your up coming birth rather than have fear of childbirth pain.
No matter what you believe or want, sometimes you are going to birth in hospital. That’s the reality. Whether you are pleased or terrified … or some place in between … that will be your birth reality unless you birth in the taxi. But we won’t go there.
It’s always a great idea to take a tour of the hospital. You might have a choice, so look around. Pick the hospital that gives you the most of what you want. But hospitals are hospitals and with all their best care practices everyone still knows that hospitals are where we go when we are sick.
And you or your baby might have health issues that make a hospital birth very necessary. Yet there is a quality of giving birth even with the most complex health issues that’s about birth rather than sickness so let’s consider something that can definitely enrich this experience.
Birth skills for you and your partner are probably the best thing you can learn during pregnancy when you will birth in hospital. Hospital births might have more medical assessments, monitoring and procedures but you will be left on your own with your partner for hours on end. This is true when you are in hospital because of illness or injury. You’re in hospital but you are left alone so you have lots of time to do something.
Why should you do something? Birth is such an important and big event in life that you really should be working with your baby’s efforts to be born just as an enjoyment. This is where birth skills such as Directed Breathing, the Pelvic Clock or Deep Touch Relaxation really come in handy.
Birth is full of excitement. That’s not true of illness or injury. Birth is a process for both the woman and the baby. The baby is working to come out of the woman’s body and the woman’s body is responding to the baby’s work. This is a wonderful time to use birth skills and work together as a family about to become a larger family. Enjoy the time together. You can use your birth skills and side by side coaching skills at every moment of each contraction or during the surgery if you have a cesarean delivery.
Obstetricians, midwives and staff absolutely love to see women coping with labour and fathers really helping. This will be more true for hospital births that need more medical attention. All birth professionals want families to have a very positive birth experience. They can just do so much for you. By using your birth skills you get to impress in your memory what you have done for yourself in your hospital birth. What do you think you’ll remember? Being passive to the experience or doing something for your self?
The birth memories you create have less to do with what happens to you than what you do for yourself. Using birth skills is your road to a great hospital birth. Start learning them from 24 weeks in pregnancy and you’ll be so glad you did. Then if you have your baby in a taxi, you’ll still have the skills to cope with THAT experience.
If you want to know more about Directed Breathing, the Pelvic Clock or Deep Touch Relaxation then visit http://www.birthingbetter.com and learn more about The Pink Kit Method For Birthing Better® the only childbirth preparation course that focuses entirely on birth skills for mothers and fathers for ALL births. Wintergreen, is a Trustee to Common Knowledge Trust which produces The Pink Kit. She is a childbirth communicator and communicates on the societal benefits of growing a skilled birthing population.
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