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Midwife
1. Precautions
Most pregnant women know about the role of the midwife during the birth and in the field of pregnancy after-care. The midwife can already, however, carry out preventive medical checkups during the pregnancy under certain prerequisites, too.
These examinations can be carried out by her if there isn't a risk pregnancy and the mother feels comfortable in the pregnancy. Ideally the attending gynecologist cooperates closely with a midwife and the preventive medical checkups are made to the two in the change at one.
In the context of the preventive medical checkups which are written down on the mother passport, among other things the midwife can carry out the following examinations:
- Supervision of the childlike heart tones, the situation and the growth of the child
- Weight and blood pressure control
- Urine and blood tests
- Vaginal examinations (when required)
- Triple test (on request)
The midwife advises also in case of questions on pregnancy troubles for the diet to the prenatal diagnostics for the choice of the place of birth and round the birth.
If the midwife watches on-due dates or deviations of the normal pregnancy course at her examinations, then she will refer the pregnant woman to a gynecologist. The midwife is good for complications, complaints and illnesses also in the pregnancy by homeopathy, acupuncture and other methods. It is important in every case that you are already looking for a midwife in the pregnancy for the after-care. A punctual registration and making contact have to be recommended since midwives have only a limited capacity.
You can find a midwife by demands in her birth clinic or in a birthplace, for example. There also are midwife associations and networks which can help you along.
Midwives also carry out birth preparation courses for the nascent parents. A punctual registration is important also here.
2. Birth
At the latest at the birth every pregnant woman becomes acquainted with a midwife. Doctors are obliged in Germany to consult a midwife for the birth (there draw duty). Under the birth the midwife supervises the birth course. She can help the nascent mother to take different birth positions and the aids birth making easier show her. You supports by instructions to the right breathing technique and relief can provide with by massage. It helps the pregnant woman between the drifts to relax. Furthermore it discusses pain-killing means or methods of treatment, such as acupuncture and homeopathy.
If an episiotomy is necessary in the expulsion phase, then the midwife can carry this out and sew again, too. If the delivery takes place in a clinic, then a doctor will carry out this medical intervention. At home childbirths or in the birthplace usually of two midwives accompany the birth and care for mother and child after the birth.
3. After-care
The mother has claim to after-care after the birth by a midwife up to ten day. There is the claim also at home after several days of clinic stay. At Still problems the mother may use midwife help all the time. At certain troubles there is claim to another 16 additional midwife visits after the birth up to eight weeks. Ask first of all exactly your register or insurance, however, which costs they take on.
At a clinic delivery becomes the young mother by the nurses and gives doctors of the week station medical care. At a home childbirth, an itinerant birth or at a delivery in the birthplace the midwife comes regularly the first 10 days and the physical constitution of the newborn child checks. It checks temperature, weight, breathing, skin color, secretions and the cure of the navel. It will carry out approximately a Guthrie test out of heel blood after the birth on the 5th day.
At the after-care of the mother the midwife checks the back-formation of the uterus and examines the healing process of a perhaps available dam seam. She also instructs the woman in childbed in exercises for the back-formation and strengthening of the pelvis floor. The midwife can advise also in case of quiet problems, diet questions and questions on the baby care. Midwives always have very good tips for the reassuring of the newborn child for example at flatulences, too.
These informations may be considered a substitute for a piece of medical advice in no case. The content of health-illness.com doesn't can and may be put into any case to make diagnoses or carry out self medical treatment independently.
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