Birth and Pregnancy Tips From Childbirth Experts

How to Have a Safer, Healthier and Happier Pregnancy and Childbirth

Child birth should ONLY ever be about you and your baby. Only. Don't ever get the idea that it is in any way for your doctor or nurse or their convenience. It's only about you and your baby, safety of.

It's all about Your discovery of how childbirth should be and can be, and How to Make it Be

Your pregnancy and your child's birth are about you and your baby. And I hate to tell you this, but there are a lot of physicians out there that don't think you are capable of having a baby safely without them.

You need to remember something: people have been around for a very long time, much longer than conventional medicine and some how, the human race has survived.

There are lots of studies indicating one thing or another. When reading these studies it's important to take into account how they were constructed and conducted. There are companies specifically for doing rigged "studies" on various things, whether it be home birth versus hospital birth, one drug versus another or the educational value of a toy - and they will give you the "studied" result that you are looking for. They are hired to get a specific outcome, so they will design their tests and studies accordingly so that the outcome seems favorable. That is why it's so important when you are reading a study to also read about what was done and how it was conducted.

Nobody else is in your skin but you and your baby. While it may seem like a big task, as your baby's mother, you have a responsibility to take care of yourself as best as you can and get informed as much as possible.

Yes, your doctor, doula, nurse or midwife will answer most or all of your questions to the best of their ability, and they'll even tell you some stuff you probably don't need to know. They are taught that they must tell you certain things, and even a great doctor will tell you something even if it isn't necessarily true because he's been told he has to in order to protect his own butt.

Not that your doctor would intentionally lie to you. For the most part, I think they have good intentions, but you need to know the facts and laws yourself. Your doctor spent a lot of years getting his or her degree, and learning about their particulary area of expertease, not necessarily the details of laws or how each study they read about was conducted (which will change the outcome).

Their job is to see you through a time that can be potentially dangerous, and since it can be, they are taught to tell you all the gory details which can be scary and give you the feeling that you must submit because if you don't... The truth is, those fears have been passed on from generation to generation. They don't necessarily mean anything other than the outcome of some pregnancies and births was not as favorable as the outcome of others. In fact, the majority of pregnancies and births goes fairly well. Look around you, is there a scarcity of people?

The answer is definitly not. Actually, the world population is growing, especially in third world countries and areas where medical care is practically unheard of. Granted, those places might be better and more populated with just a little medical provisions, but to them, birth is just another part of life. It's not that big of a deal, they deal with it and move on.

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It's important that you learn when you need the interventions and when you don't. Don't let the scary details of the few scare you into not thinking for yourself. Only you can tell how you feel.

Take a breech baby for example. This would be a complication to birth, and many would opt to have a cesearean, but keep in mind, this is a more common complication, and it is still possible to have a natural vaginal birth go well, even though the baby is breech. It kind of depends on how you feel about it and if you are ready to handle it for what it is.

Getting yourself educated about such things will help you to know and weigh your options, before it's too late. Before you have to go along with whatever you physician's suggest because things have progressed too far the wrong way for too long.

Besides, learning about this stuff can be facinating. The inner workings of your own body are really neat, and the way your baby developes and grows is, too. Can you imagine your own body having started out as a single cell. It's hard to think of it that way.

Even taking a basic CPR class would be good and useful. Why? Well, then you know CPR, not just in case you need to for your baby, but if somebody else you loves needs CPR. It's about LIFE.

That's it, pregnancy, birth, and the time with your baby after birth is about LIFE. Growing life, giving life, sustaining life, and CPR would be about preserving life, as would any good information you can obtain towards bettering your pregnancy and birth.