Conduct of normal childbirth

You are at the end of your pregnancy, you lose water or you experience painful contractions and close it’s time to leave for maternity. From your arrival at the facility in your room with your baby, this is what happens.

The arrival at the maternity

PregnancyUpon your arrival, a midwife is your constant (voltage, temperature) and considers the cervical dilation. She puts on your arm a catheter to be used in cases of infusion and install two sensors in your stomach that monitoring records uterine contractions and the baby’s heart.
The early work

You are then installed in work room. You can get up and do exercises with a ball.

Every hour, a midwife measure cervical dilation and takes your constants. Of regular monitoring can estimate a healthy baby.

Gradually the contractions become more frequent and painful.

Namely: if the expansion is too slow, your baby may suffer. The wise woman you are given a product to accelerate the frequency and intensity of contractions. The contractions can cause vomiting.
Epidurals

The cervix is dilated to 3 cm: it offers the epidural you will give birth without pain. An anesthetist practice then a sting in your back, place a catheter into the spine and injects the anesthetic: your pain fade in 10 minutes.

Once the epidural placed, you can not move, eat or drink. You are under continuous monitoring.

Namely: You can request the epidural until 7 or 8 cm dilated. Make up your time!
Expulsion

When the cervix is fully open, it fades away undertakes baby and you feel an urge to push. This expulsion.

The midwife then install the brackets at the end of the bed to elevate your legs.

You should push strongly to the rhythm of contractions. This stage lasts about half an hour. The portion of the head is the hardest, then the body comes alone. Sometimes you make an incision of the perineum (episiotomy) to prevent tearing.

Namely: the gynecologist obstetrician is called in case of complications, if any need to use forceps or suction cups to help your baby out.

The issue
Your baby is born but it is not finished: it is the placenta. This phenomenon usually occurs without effort 20 to 30 minutes later.
Baby First Aid

Immediately after birth, your spouse can cut the cord.

A medical team takes care of your baby and unclog his airway by suctioning the mucus in his nose and mouth. Your baby is weighed and examined from every angle! Fontanelle, hips, genitals, shoulders, abdomen … The midwife then took his temperature and it takes a few drops of blood.

Once dressed and his ID bracelet in place, your puppy may find your arm.

Namely: we often measure the baby the next day.
And the mother?

Meanwhile, you are not forgotten! The most important thing is to check that all the placenta was expelled. The stitches are made in cases of episiotomy. After two hours of monitoring, you regain your room with your baby.

These are: the average labor lasts 12 hours for women giving birth to their first child and 8 hours for others.

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