another way to look at two birth plans
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Presently expectant parents only think in terms of 'birth choices' and conventional Birth Plans. There is absolutely NO societal expectation that families should become skilled birthing mothers and skilled coaching dads/others. Please consider this list. CHOICES ARE: apparel in labor music in labor epidural in labor (unless deemed medically necessary) location of birth fertility measures to become pregnant birth tub for labor birth team, including doula disposition of the placenta banking of cord blood eurythromycin in baby's eyes vitamin k shot in baby's thigh immunizations SKILLS ARE: ways to breathe to soften and open ways to position yourself to help your baby's descent assisted movements to expand the inner space for baby visualizations to focus the mind rhythmic breathing chanting meditating praying communicating effectively with your partner/friend communicating with your baby awareness of what baby needs and likes managing your emotions focusing your mindTRANSCRIPT
Birth Plans
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Timeline• Your wake up call• The Reality• Information, Choice, Skills• Your Bottom Line
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Your Wake Up Call• You cannot plan birth• You cannot choose birth• What you want might not happen and what you
dread might happen• What you don’t want might happen and what you
dread might not happen.
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The Reality
• Pregnant woman ‘does’ the birth and you help her ‘do’ it
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• You and your pregnant partner might ‘choose/plan’ a home birth but…
• What will you ‘do’ if you end up in hospital?
• What if you plan a hospital birth and find the birth happening in the car on the way there what will you ‘do’?
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• Birth plan will help you focus your attention
• But the actual experience of giving birth is nothing like a wedding. Giving birth is always an activity much like a climbing a mountain, running a marathon, driving on a long journey or participating in a play
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Information, Choice, and Skills
• When my pregnant partner is having a painful contraction is it better if I know;o How dilated her cervix is
(information)?o Why she’s gotten on her hands and
knees (choice)? o Or how to help her cope with the
pain (skills)?
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• Right now there is a two-legged stool approach to childbirth : information leading to choices (Birth Plans). Without the right birth and coaching skills too many births end with disappointment, shame, blame and guilt.
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Your Bottom Line• Learn the skills to:
o Help prepare the woman’s pregnant body to let out your baby.
o Practice the skills then use both birth and coaching skills to work with your baby’s efforts to be born.
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• No matter how the birth unfolds you can always birth better because you both know how to do the activity better with skills than without
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