healthy birth

Healthy Birth Practices # 2

Healthy Birth Practices # 2

Walk, Move Around and Change Positions Throughout Labour.

When allowed to move freely during labour, women instinctively respond to their powerful contractions. Walking, swaying, squatting, rocking, rubbing and changing positions during labour. 

Research supports that movement may help shorten labour, can provide effective pain relief and can decrease the likelihood of having a cesarean (Storton.S (2007) "the coalition for improving maternity services")

Healthy Birth Practices # 1

Healthy Birth Practices # 1

Let labour Begin On It's Own.

Letting your body go into labour spontaneously is almost always the best way to know that your baby is ready to be born and that your body is ready for labour. In the vast majority of pregnancies, labour will start only when all the players—your baby, your uterus, your hormones, and your placenta—are ready.