Family Centered Cesarean Birth
When giving birth to your baby via cesarean birth (either unplanned or scheduled) there is much you can do to prepare yourself in advance.
Choices in Cesarean Birth
Think your birth plan goes out the window when you find out you are having a c-section to birth your baby? Nope. There are still many many options that maybe you don't know you have.
Find out what they are and the tricks to
advocate, successfully, to get what you want.
Family Centered Cesarean Birth and
Mother-Assisted Cesarean (MAC)
What are the elements of a cesarean birth that make it family-centered instead of hospital-centered. Find out what they are so you can make them happen during the birth of your baby. Just because it's surgery doesn't mean it can't still be that joyous moment of birth of your long awaited baby.
Learn all about MAC and find out if you might want that, and if yes, how to get it.
Partners: you'll learn additional tips on how to support her while she's giving birth by cesarean.
What to Expect & Coping During the Surgery
You'll learn coping skills: because c-section surgery is not 100% free of sensation. Quite the opposite. When you give birth by cesarean there will be a lot for you and your partner to cope with. And you'll want to know everything about the possible sensations so you're not blindsided and can fully enjoy meeting your beautiful new baby!
Options for Monitoring Your Baby's Heart Rate
Benefits & Risks of Continuous Fetal Monitoring
Did you know that monitoring your baby's heart rate when you are in labor is one of the most important & primary ways that your midwife or doctor monitors the well-being of your baby? Likely you did know that, but maybe you didn't know you had a choice to make here? There a few ways FHR (fetal heart rate) can be observed, and you do have options to choose from.
Learn your options, what each choice could mean (there are downsides and risks) and include your choice in your birth plan. It's good to be educated about when a certain option might be more ideal than another. Learn all the consequences of each choice.
The Lessons:
- The "Cascade of Interventions"
- The Choice: that Moment in Labor when You make the Choice to have a Cesarean Birth
- Cesarean Birth Choices and Mother-Assisted-Cesarean (MAC)
- Affirmations for Cesarean Birth
- Partners: How to Best Support Her if she's Giving Birth by Cesarean
- Recovery from Surgery and Breastfeeding after Cesarean
- What the Evidence says about Cesarean Birth and the most common reason given by OBs to say the phrase "it's time for a c-section"
- Options for Monitoring Your Baby's Heart Rate
- The Benefits and Risks of Fetal Monitoring
Ready to learn how to make cesarean birth the best that it can be?
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Guided Meditation and Hypnosis Preparation for Childbirth
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