Posts Tagged ‘Birth’

• Vaginal exams in labor – are they necessary?

  Date: 2010.07.19 | Category: Birth | Response: 4

  If you are giving birth with the assistance of medical professionals, especially in a hospital setting, the chances are that they will want to carry out multiple vaginal exams. Are vaginal exams during labor necessary? What purpose do they serve, and whose purpose? How many vaginal exams should you consent to? And what do midwives say about vaginal exams in labor? Read the rest of this entry »

• Unassisted childbirth – what you need to know about the third stage

  Date: 2010.07.16 | Category: Unassisted Childbirth | Response: 6

  Planning an unassisted homebirth, and birthing my baby without medical assistance, has been an exciting journey for me, and one that allowed me to learn an awful lot about the physiology birth, about my body, and about medical habits. One of the questions that was important to me was what I needed to know about the delivery of the placenta. How long should it take for a placenta to be born? What are the complications that can occur? Is any action required to deliver the placenta? The research I have done into the third stage of labor led me to the following conclusions. Read the rest of this entry »