Evening all.
Yesterday Gem and I went off to the second of three antenatal classes. It
was all about actually giving birth. We looked at the actual medical process
which I'm not even going to attempt to describe as I'm not a medical person.
At the birthing centre we're hopefully going to them only do "normal"
births. This is births that are non assisted. The lady did talk about help
that if your having probable a hospital can help with. She told us about a
device where basically they use a pump to make the sure the position of the
baby is right and forceps, although they don't tend to be used nearly as
much now.
We also found out about the afterbirth, which was nice. If your having a
water birth once the baby comes out they do try to get out of the water
before the afterbirth as they like to measure the blood loss.
There was also a video of a water birth where the lady giving birth didn't
use any pain medication and didn't mown or scream or anything. All she used
was self-hypnosis. I told my mum about this and she said that real life was
nothing like that!
The video was good but it was almost as if the lady on it was trying to sell
us something. As an aside strangely enough the lady on the video also
teaches self-hypnosis. See the link?
I think it's definite that Gem now wants a water birth as it just looks so
much more relaxing.
They did talk about how the baby doesn't drown. I didn't realise that until
the babies head comes out of water that they don't breath at all. And that
until then the babies lungs aren't inflated. I thought this was really
interesting.
That was it really.
Next week is on baby care, Brest feeding, midwife support and so on which
will be good.
Take care.
Nick.
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