BirthandLabor
Having a baby? Here are 10 questions to ask about childbirth
Have you decided how to dispose of your baby? The choice is yours!
First, you need to learn as much as possible about all your choices. There are many different ways to take care of the mother and her baby during labor and delivery.
The delivery of better quality care and better health for mothers and babies is called "mother-friendly." Some parameters cradles or mother are more user-friendly than others.
A panel of experts in health care delivery had with this list of 10 things to look for and ask about. Medical research supports all of these things. They are also the best means to be a mother-friendly.
When you have decided where to have your baby, you will probably be choosing from different places such as:
* Birth Center
* Hospital
* Services home birth
Here's what you should expect, and ask, in your experience of the birth. Make sure you know how people you talk to handle these ten questions on care for you and your baby. You may want to ask the questions below to help you learn more.
Male and female, helping push 1 woman. Ask: "Who can be with me during labor and birth?"
Mother-friendly birth centres, hospitals and services home birth mother to leave a delivery decide who it wants to be with her during childbirth. These include fathers, partners, children, other family members or friends.
They may also leave a delivery, the mother had with her a person who has special training to help women cope with labor and birth. This person is called a doula or person of the workforce. She never leaves the birth mother alone. It encourages, its comfort and assistance to understand what is going on with her.
They will midwives as part of their staff so that a birth mother can have a midwife with her if she wants.
2. Ask: "What happens during a normal birth and labor in your bet?"
If they give the mother-friendly, they will tell you how they handle each part of the birthing process. For example, how often do they give the mother a drug to accelerate the birth? Or do they let labor and delivery usually occur on its own programming?
They will also tell you how many times they do certain procedures. For example, they will have a record percentage of C-sections (caesarean births), they make each year. If the number is too high, you should consider having your baby to another location or to another doctor or midwife.
Here are some numbers, we recommend that you inform.
* They should not try to start working more than 1 in 10 women (10%).
* They should not make an episiotomy over 1 in 5 women (20%). They should try to increase that number. (The episiotomy is a cut in the opening of the vagina in order to make higher for the birth. It is not necessary in most cases.)
* They should not do it on sections C-1 in 10 women (10%) if it is a community hospital. The rate should be 15% or less in hospitals that care for many high-risk mothers and infants.
A C-section is a major operation in which a doctor through its mother's womb and within it removes the baby through the opening. Mothers who have had a C-section can often have babies normally future. Find a cradle in which 6 women out of 10 (60%) or more of the mothers who had C-sections go to the other have their babies through the birth canal (AVAC)
3. Ask: "How do you allow the differences of cultures and beliefs?"
Mother-friendly birth centres, hospitals and services home birth are sensitive to the culture of the mother. They know that mothers and families do not have the same beliefs, values and customs.
For example, you may have a custom that only women can be with you during labor and delivery. Or perhaps your beliefs include a religious ritual to be done after birth. There are many other examples, which may be very important to you. If the place and the people are in favour of the mother, they will help you do what you want to do. Before beginning work, tell your doctor or midwife special things you want.
Male partner helping woman working on foot 4. Ask: "Can I walk and move around during labor? What attitude do you suggest for the birth? "
In parent-friendly settings, you can walk and move as you choose during work. You can choose positions that are most comfortable and most effective for you during labor and delivery. (There may be a medical reason for you to be in a certain position.) Mother-friendly settings almost never put a woman flat on her back with her legs in stirrups for the birth.
5. Ask: "How do you ensure that all goes well during my nurse, doctor, midwife, or the body must work with each other?"
Ask: "My doctor or midwife come with me if I have to be moved to another place at work? Can you help me find people or organizations in my community who can help me before and after the baby is born? "
Mother-friendly places and people have a specific plan to keep in touch with other people taking care of you. They will talk to other people who you give birth care. They help you find people or organizations in your community to help. For example, they may put you in touch with someone who can help with breastfeeding.
6. Ask: "What things do you normally do to a woman?"
Experts say some methods of care during labor and delivery are better and healthier for mothers and babies. Medical research shows that the methods of care are better and healthier. Mother-friendly settings only use methods that have proven by the best scientific evidence.
Sometimes, birthing centres, hospitals and services home birth use methods that are not proven to be the best for the mother or the baby. For example, research has shown that it is generally not helpful to break the sac of water.
Here is a list of things we recommend that you inform. They do not and can harm the health of mothers and babies. They are not proven to be the best for the mother or the baby and the mother are not friendly.
* They should not keep track of the baby's heart rate all the time with a machine (called an electronic fetal monitor). Instead, it is better to have your nurse or midwife to listen to the baby's heart from time to time.
* Do not leave your bag of waters early in the workplace.
* They should not use an IV (put a needle in your vein to give you fluids).
* They should not tell you that you can not eat or drink during work.
* They should not shaving.
* They should not give you an enema.
A centre of the birth, hospital or home birth service that makes these things for the majority of mothers is not in favour of the mother. Remember, they should not be used without a medical reason.
7. Ask: "How can we help mothers stay as comfortable as they can be? In addition to drugs, how do you help mothers to relieve the pain of labor? "
People who take care of you should know to help you cope with the workforce. They should know about how to cope with your pain who do not use drugs. They should propose things like change your position, relax in a hot bath, a massage, and using the music. These measures are called comfort.
Comfort measures help you manage your work easier and help you feel more in control. People who care for you will not try to persuade you to use a drug for pain, unless you need to take care of a medical problem. All drugs affect the baby.
8. Ask: "What if my baby was born early or has any problems?"
Mother-friendly places and people will encourage mothers and families touching, holding, breast-feed, and care for their children as much as possible. They will encourage this, even if your baby was born early or has a medical problem at birth. (However, there may be a medical reason, you should not keep and care for your baby.)
9. Ask: "Are you circumcised baby boys?"
Medical research does not show a need for baby boys circumcised. It is painful and risky. Mother-friendly cradles discourage circumcision unless it is for religious reasons.
Baby Nursing 10. Ask: "How can we help mothers who want to breastfeed?"
The World Health Organization has made the list of ways birth services supporting breastfeeding.
* They say all mothers breastfeed why and how.
* They help you start breastfeeding 1 hour after the baby is born.
* They show you how to breastfeed. And they show you how to keep your appearance in the milk, even if you find yourself missing your baby for work or for other reasons.
* Newborns should have a breast milk. (However, there may be a medical reason, they can not do it right away.)
* They encourage you and the baby to stay together all day and all night. This is called "rooming-in."
* They encourage you to feed your baby when he or she wants to nurse, not at certain times.
* They must not give pacifiers ( "dummies" or "dummies") for babies breastfed.
* They encourage you to join a group of mothers. They tell you how to contact a group near you.
* They have a written policy on breastfeeding. All employees to know and use the ideas in politics.
* They teach employees the skills they need to carry out these measures.