Birth preparation course

It is of advantage if the parents take a birth preparation course in the clinic in which they wish the delivery. You already then get to know the midwife/N and the local conditions.

In a birth preparation course the parents of a midwife are prepared for a spontaneous delivery. It a number of methods which have the objective is introduced a birth which is as pain poor as possible and going without use of technique and medicines, to make it possible, the nascent mother. The courses can be for the two parents or also for the pregnant woman only on every course appointment. A combination is usually offered (for some topics the partner comes). Today's pregnancy courses fortunately are no longer comparable with the in the past usual prenatal exercises.

Nowadays the following points are treated in a birth preparation course:
  • The midwife offers information about the spiritual and physical changes during the pregnancy and the birth. The parents know exactly what comes toward them. Anxieties are therefore dismantled most. Educational work is a quite essential point in these courses.
  • The midwife offers the women to learn a simple breathing technique with which them the labors "way breathing" can. It isn't primarily conceivable for most pairs in front of the birth of the first child that this works. However, it really works. This breathing technique makes easier enormously to bear the labor pain. It bumps into its limits at too long birth duration and births induced. Ask the midwife during the birth quietly to breathe "correctly" with you once again! It is completely normal that be able to you not at once the learned under the birth use.
  • The midwifes often offer practicing relaxation exercises, too. These exercises help many pregnant women to collect a new power in the labor pauses primarily. The musculature remains loose also under the enormous effort and the birth dilation capably often goes first more lightly and more rapidly. However, don't sit down with learning such techniques under pressure.
  • The prenatal exercises are as of, aimed invigorate the musculature on the one hand, on the other hand solve hardenings. Balls which there is for every height are often used.
  • You can ask the midwife around the pregnancy, birth and silent time to all topics in the group conversations. If you still have questions on their entries in the mother passport, then you also will explain these to you. She also will what give you tips, everything needs your baby into your clinic suitcase heard and which things in the first time. You can give the nascent fathers advice as your wives can support you during the birth and the time after this best. The course also gives the possibility of getting to know pairs which are in the same life situation. Lifelong friendships are often based in these courses. Perineum massage
The regular massage of the perineum is one of the most important birth preparatory measures. It lies between the receipt of the vagina and the anus. The perineum forms the boundary between these two organs and prevents that intestine bacteria can reach the sheath. Although it is very elastic it can the childlike capitulum to a perineal laceration glide out under the birth come. The massage with special massage oils can reduce the probability of a perineal laceration fundamentally. Because the elasticity of the perineum is increased by it, it gets softer and suppler.

The massage should be started with six to eight weeks in front of the birth. You one, soon two or three fingers go about three centimeters deeply into the sheath initially, take hold of your perineum and massage with a light pressure in the direction of the intestine at the massage take. Take your time for this minimumly for two to five minutes. You much really need oil like you use only in such a way. Pay attention at the massage to clean hands and good intimate hygiene. Try to pull the sheath out of each other on this occasion for around 20 seconds until you feel a tingle or one light burning. You also become it the capitulum steps by the sheath be aware. By this dilation at once pulled down in the sheath bend you, too. Really take your time to yourself for the massage and make everything so that a perineal laceration or episiotomy is avoided! Say at the birth quite clearly to the midwife once again that you shall protect the perineum. It is your professional task! Perhaps the perineum massage can make even an episiotomy (episiotomy) superfluous.

Anti episiotomy coach

Besides the very approved method of the perineum massage has there been a medical device for some time this shall help to avoid a perineal laceration or episiotomy. The Epi no is a balloon made of rubber which can be inflated with a little hand-pump on the size of a child capitulum. For two weeks from the birth the pregnant woman shall begin to import and to inflate carefully the balloon into the sheath. The perineum is stretched thus slowly. The birth shall be feigned therefore and the muscles be stretched in the pelvis area. As this medical device is valuably more perhaps can be told risks to themselves only after long-term studies and at exact knowledge.


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