Category Childbirth

Author: livejournal.com olkan I don’t plan to give birth anymore, although I’m not going to swear so as not to jinx it. Well, that is, I would have given birth many more times with great pleasure, but I'm not ready to care for babies yet. They made me just now

Article by Sara Wickham, translated by Ekaterina Zhitomirskaya. Printed in the magazine AIMS (AIMS - Alliance for the Improvement of Maternity Services - a British public organization "Union for the Improvement of Maternity Services") AIMS JOURNAL

For a mother-to-be, especially if her pregnancy is the first and desired, it is quite natural to experience a cocktail of mixed feelings. This is joy, hope, new shades of love and, at the same time, quite understandable fear and confusion. Unable to answer

Most women in our time have not even heard of such a concept as "vertical childbirth". For this reason, there are various interpretations that this is just another new-fangled trend among obstetricians offering alternative methods of delivery.

At a certain moment, every girl has a desire to become a mother. Someone thinks about a child already at 20 years old, someone - only at 30 or even later. However, when looking at a baby, most women begin to smile tenderly. Motherhood is great

The presence of a husband next to his wife during childbirth is usually called partner (or joint) childbirth. Not so long ago, this was out of the question. In an extreme case, the husband could be somewhere in the hospital corridor or lobby and anxiously wait

Labor is different for every woman. Sometimes childbirth is calm, sometimes stormy and frightening - you cannot predict what it will be like. There are, however, a few common mistakes that you shouldn't make if you do NOT want labor.

The question of whether my spouse should be in childbirth tormented me for a very long time. The terms of the contract allowed his presence from the first to the last moment, but I decided that my husband would definitely not go to the delivery room. I really didn't want my beloved to hear these

"It is worth taking the baby in your arms - and any pain will pass!" - assures the majority of women in labor. However, practice shows that this is not always the case. Whatever one may say, but childbirth is an unpredictable process, so the expectant mother should be ready for any surprises.

Tears of happiness, sea of ​​congratulations, flowers, smiles, the first meeting with your baby, the first breastfeeding immediately after childbirth ... However, unfortunately, this is not all about you. Premature birth, alas, evokes completely opposite emotions and leaves