Archive for the ‘Birth’ Category
In Birth As Well As in Sex
August 4th, 2010 | 
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The approach to birth cannot change if the medical care remains its only background To understand birth in a different way, it has to be associated with sexuality.
Many women are scared because of what they learned about the usual birth care, movies and TV Shows, or through perinatal rumors that always pops around a pregnant woman. To give them confidence, its not suffice saying that birth is a physiological process. That’s truth, but doesn’t really touch the deep emotional level, where the fear comes form.
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The C-section We Want
Adriana Tanese-Nogueira, Débora Meister*, Tricia Cavalcanti**
What? What do we mean by “the C-section we want“?
Well, to say the truth, we actually do not want any C-section! We are not going to lie to you. We abominate the idea of a cut on our belly! Read the rest of this entry »
Birth by Cesarean
Mary Zwart, midwife
“Because I had a previous c-section …… a c-section was arranged… As I was wheeled away… I felt like I was like an animal led to the slaughter with no mind of my own and doing as I was told… No real consideration was given to how I felt. I was lying there having the epidural inserted, screaming out inside, why, why, I don’t want this.”
In Portugal almost 1 out of 3 women give birth by Cesarean Section. Read the rest of this entry »
When Labor Doesn’t Start
“Dear Friends of Birth,
I found your website a few days ago, researching in Internet about natural birth.
I’m 37-weeks pregnant. I already have a two-and-a-half-year-old son who was born through a C-section with 41 weeks. There was no problem, the labor simply didn’t start. Therefore… a C-section, that I didn’t want… Read the rest of this entry »
Contractions: What Are They and What Are They For?
By Maria Rita Cassia B. Almeida
As the name implies, contraction means that something is contracting, and the organ that contracts is the uterus.
It has a format similar to a birthday balloon and inside it there is the baby. The place where we give the corresponding node in the balloon corresponds to the cervix and the air inside the bladder corresponds to the amniotic fluid. As a birthday balloon is made of a plastic material, the uterus is made of a sturdy muscle that contracts to push the baby’s head against the cervix and thus help to open this (expansion) to the output of baby.
In most cases, the labor begins gently, with some strong contractions and discomfort which may or may not be present. The Read the rest of this entry »
Exercising During Labor Reduces the Chance of C-Section and Pain
Cláudia Colucci - Folha de São Paulo
Practicing physical therapy during childbirth increases the pain tolerance, reduces drug use and decreases the time until the baby’s birth, concludes a study at the University Hospital of USP. Among pregnant women who did the activities, the cesarean section rate was 11%. The average in the institution is 20%. Read the rest of this entry »
Delivery Mechanisms
Frédérick Leboyer
The delivery mechanisms are all active and passive motion made by the fetus, driven by contraction, through the birth canal. Read the rest of this entry »
Normal Operatory Birth – Indication
Dr. Betina Bittar
A normal medical birth means that the birth will take place through the vagina and that drugs and surgical procedures will be used to speed the delivery and reduce the mother’s pain. This type of birth necessarily occurs in the hospital.
Indication: Any woman who has not precise or absolute need of a cesarean section.
Betina A. C. Bittar is gynecologist and obstetrician, homeopath, acupuncturist. She lives and works in São Paulo (Brazil).
