Live Birth Video
Live birth video? You want to know what birth is like and how it
happens.
Birth is considered a shattering experience of pain,
fear, risks, a sacrifice the mother does for her child.
But many women have experience birth differently. For
me birth is a great joyful empowering experience. The pain is definitely
bearable and is as long as you want your contractions to continue.
The moment you say "YES!" to birth and communicate to your baby and
your body that you allow and welcome the birth, you very quickly enter
into labor which can be short and easy. Do not push, just let your
body do its work and enjoy it. There will hardly be much pain if you
do not let the fear in.
If you are in hospital, choose carefully your doctor
and medical staff and follow your needs.
One of the most important things is to stay on your
feet. You are a client, not a patient. You can see this attitude demonstrated
in the live birth video at the end of the article. Refuse any interventions,
monitoring, and checks unless you feel that you need any. All these
should have been done before the birth, so that you know that natural
birth is completely possible for you. Keep walking until you are in
labor and need to stay in one place. If necessary, hold yourself somewhere
to keep you upright. Gravity helps the baby to move down, pressing
on the cervix. Since the weight of uterus is not on your back, you
will not experience less pain.
Walk and dance, rock and let any sounds out. Do not
be ashamed of giving birth. Enjoy it! Celebrate it! The pelvic twists
and rocks will open up the cervix for the baby and will adjust for
best delivery easing your baby lower and deeper in the birth canal.
If you stay on your feet in hospital, you can prevent
any unwanted interventions. Watch how women are giving birth with
dignity in the Lamaze live birth video below.
When you feel the urge to push, you can perfectly well
give birth standing or squatting. I have delivered my second baby
in a squatting position - it is well not to be too high from the floor,
so that if the baby slips it will be just a few centimetres from the
floor.
If you are in an upright position, you will not need
an episiotomy. The perineum stretches enough to let the baby descend.
The pelvic bones will move in the best way to help
the baby go down. You will have less tears and a much faster labor.
In this Lamaze International live birth video you will
see birthing mothers standing on their feet, being themselves during
birth.

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