Celebrities Surgery

Orgasm During Childbirth

2011-12-06T05:28:00.000-08:00

Childbirth Video And Labor Pain

it is beautiful that orgasms can happen when new lives are coming into this harsh, cruel world. i'm sure the babies who are born this way are happier, more stable people and would never be disturbed that their amazing, strong, brave mothers were able to feel joy during their births. it's beautiful.

Vaginal Delivery

2011-12-06T05:27:00.000-08:00

Childbirth Video And Labor Pain

It was a great lesson for kids i think so now they won't have sex We don't want babies having babies

Aprendendo como fazer um Parto!

2011-12-06T05:26:00.000-08:00

Childbirth Video And Labor Pain

Obtaining a Pap Smear Inspection of Vagina.

2011-12-06T05:24:00.000-08:00

Childbirth Video And Labor Pain

childbirth pain video - Labor Pain Relief: Pain Substitution

2011-12-06T05:23:00.000-08:00

Childbirth Video And Labor Pain

Using ice for pain substitution during labor is a great way to distract your mind from birthing pains. Learn more about using pain substitution for labor pain relief with tips from a labor educator in this free pregnancy video.

skylar and labor pain

2011-12-06T05:22:00.000-08:00

Childbirth Video And Labor Pain

this is the more vocal video of me in labor!

Labor Pain Management

2011-12-06T05:03:00.001-08:00

Childbirth Video And Labor Pain

Streaming simulation form College of Nursing Concept Integration Lab to undergraduate OB nursing class lecture hall.

In labor...Craziest pain I've ever felt

2011-12-06T05:02:00.000-08:00

Childbirth Video And Labor Pain

You don't understand. Get the lady her drugs. You're only three centimeters. You make all the noises you want lady, because you are entitled to it.

Painful Water Birth

2011-12-06T05:01:00.000-08:00

Childbirth Video And Labor Pain

As a midwife myself just finished studying,im 26 and have had 4 natural births,i screamed more than this woman has,how dare any1 judge some1 on how they give birth.every woman has different thresholds of pain when it comes to birthing.you need to get a life and watch something else if you cant bear it.maybe your vagina is so large your babies just slip out.lol....good work mum and congrats

Labor and Delivery: Labor Pain

2011-12-06T05:00:00.000-08:00

Childbirth Video And Labor Pain

Dr. Siobhan Dolan talks with moms-to-be about what to expect and how to manage labor pain.

Belly Dancing Through Elisa's Pain-free Four-Hour Labor

2011-12-06T04:59:00.000-08:00

Childbirth Video And Labor Pain

No moms are wimps! I think that without labor training and a plan of action, it would be difficult to labor without help. When I was pregnant, I was very concerned about having a plan that worked for me, so when I came across belly dance as a labor technique, I was intrigued. It "felt" right to me and I could instantly envision myself doing it. If you want to avoid the drugs, you really need to have a plan that you practice and visualize before labor begins.

Pain free Cesarean Birth by C-section

2011-12-06T04:58:00.000-08:00

Childbirth Video And Labor Pain

Watch as this beautiful woman gives birth calmly and effortlessly in a c section. The Ceasarian section was planned and the entire experience of giving birth via caesarian section was easy, pain free and rewarding. The recovery from giving birth by C section was quick and healing was fast and painless.

Acupuncture can ease Labor Pains!

2011-12-06T04:57:00.001-08:00

Childbirth Video And Labor Pain

Marc Sklar from Reproductive Wellness discusses the benefits of using acupuncture to ease labor pains.

External cephalic version (ECV) to turn a breech baby

2011-12-06T04:56:00.000-08:00

Childbirth Video And Labor Pain

This video shows an ECV to turn a breech baby to head-first. It is offered to women at 36-37 weeks and reduces the chance of needing caesarean section. It is a safe procedure and is successful about 40-50% of the time. On this occasion I used a drug to help relax the womb first. While most women find it uncomfortable, it isn't usually painful. If you have a tender uterus anyway, it is more likely to hurt.

The baby in this video had a reassuring fetal monitoring right before I started the procedure and the fetal heart was checked afterwards. If a longer attempt at ECV was carried out then we check half way through too with the ultrasound. Transient changes in the baby's heart rate are not uncommon and usually settle after a few minutes. Very occasionally they don't settle and a caesarean section needs to be done.

For the ECV shown, the baby does a forward somersault anticlockwise. The first step is to lift the baby's bottom out from your pelvis and move her to lying transversely. Often that is the most difficult part. Overall, it normally takes between 1 and 2 minutes to do the turn - any longer than that and the chance of success goes down. It is more likely to succeed in the following situations:

- if you have had a baby before
- if there is a normal amount of water around the baby
- if your baby has his knees bent
- if his or her bottom isn't engaged in your pelvis
- if the baby's head is not right up against the placenta

During an ECV uterine contractions can occur and we generally just wait until they pass.

Is it safe?

One of the best quality research on safety comes from Oxford in the UK (incidentally, where I trained to do them) and they looked at just over 800 consecutive ECVs. The chance of needing emergency CS during or just after the ECV was 1 in 200. The risk of the placenta coming away (abruption) was 0.1% and no babies died due to the procedure. These figures are similar to other research that is available and confirm the safety of ECV. Approximately 3% of babies turn back to breech after successful ECV and 3% of unsuccessful ECVs turn spontaneously to head-first afterwards.

This is the research study:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17355270

Thanks to the mother here who kindly gave her consent to the video being published for educational purposes.

Oh, and sorry for the music - it was the only 'baby' result in my iTunes library!

Dr Tucker
http://dannytucker.net/health

Best Kept Secret of Labor?

2011-12-06T04:51:00.000-08:00

it's so funny that people are actually criticizing these women. yeah i can't imagine actually feeling pleasure in something that is so excruciating for women but anyone who has had a baby can attest to the notion that it would be impossible for anyone to fake these kinds of pleasurable feelings during childbirth. Some people are made differently.

Pay less attention to your own notions and learn more about the basic anatomy of women and you can see how this might be possible.

Labor Delivery Video

2011-12-06T04:49:00.000-08:00

http://www.maternityrunningskirts.com Labor delivery video of runner who ran through all three trimesters of pregnancy up to full term. Regular excercise and specifically running during pregnancy are proven to provide many benefits to mom and baby. Prenatal and postpartum benefits of staying fit through her pregnancy were extremely beneficial.

While running through all trimesters and doing many prenatal exercises Cindy designed the Maternity running skirt which has received rave reviews from many mother-to-be runners and fitness enthusiasts including a 2008 Olympic gold medalist.

Vocalizing in Labor and Birth

2011-12-06T04:47:00.000-08:00

This video demonstrates how vocalizing in labor can be a very effective coping technique. Find the video at iBirth Online (www.ibirthapp.com/online/) among a collection of 26 videos to help you prepare for labor and birth. Become familiar with the sights and sounds of a laboring woman AND know how to help her remain as comfortable as possible!

Natural Vaginal Childbirth Delivery Video

2011-12-06T04:43:00.000-08:00

http://yourbirthcoach.com Video of my second home birth. It was about 6 hours of labor from early beginnings to birth.

This video starts when things start to feel "pushy." Up until this point I was silent during my contractions.

You can watch my labor here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dP1N6wB9kU

The sounds women make in labor may make it seem as if it is painful, but I can assure you pain was not part of this birth experience. The sounds of pushing help when using all your effort, just like with intense exercise (tennis players hitting the ball). With this birth it really just felt like I needed to have a BM.

I didn't want any noise around me or anyone talking. My birth team was great because they really just left me to do my work without disturbance.

I did appreciate my midwife saying to go slow when I feel the burn. She said it at the exact right time and that definately helped make getting the head out so easy and gentle. It is one of the great things about midwifery care, they observe you so carefully that they know just where you are and what you need.

Our son was born in our home in the presence of my husband, my daughter (2 1/2 at the time), my mom, 2 friends (mom and daughter), and 2 midwives.

Please leave you questions and comments.

http://yourbirthcoach.com
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Contractions in the labour ward

2011-12-06T04:41:00.000-08:00

This was near the start when I didn't know how to control the contractions, you get more used to it, lol. The gas - didn't help at 1st but the diamorphone injections certainly helped, I took the gas again near the end but that was all. He was a big boy but he was long so he carried his weight well haha.

The pain goes away so is well worth it, plus you can choose stronger pain relief methods so not that bad and now my wee boy is nearly 2 and is amazing, I will defo do it again!

My Wife Giving Birth - Natural Labour Birth of Baby

2011-12-06T04:38:00.000-08:00

This is a short video to show a natural birth, I hope it will show the teenagers that having a baby is painful and not a just something that is easy to get through, but also I hope the video will show how wonderful it is to have a baby.
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BREASTFEEDING - A Choice of Life. For Elkin Eduardo Uribe

2011-10-10T05:11:00.000-07:00

Virtual Baby Maker

2011-10-10T04:54:00.000-07:00

WHY WOULD YOU VACCUM OUT A BABY?

Birth Day: Natural Childbirth

2011-07-28T07:30:00.000-07:00

On this Birth Day, a condition of preeclampsia causes the doctor and patient to change their original plan on natural childbirth.

HOW TO ATTEND A CHILDBIRTH

2011-07-28T07:28:00.000-07:00

Eutocic delivery!! Vaginal birth, PROCESS VIA
DISPLACED BY FIGHTING CESAREAN ...

Bastian's Birth

2011-07-28T07:27:00.000-07:00

I'm a student of midwifery and I LOVE LOVE LOVE this video! You and your birth team were amazing!!! Thank you for sharing :)

The 5 minutes delivery

2011-07-28T07:26:00.000-07:00

I'll be breast a few months and I was handed a video where I saw a full game under stress, he shook me around to see the video! I have a fear that nome espantosooo.Espero hurt as much as pain that e nervioo agarrdo to see the video.

My Home Delivery

2011-07-28T07:22:00.000-07:00

You know the midwifery I learned wasn't in a hurry to get a woman to push against a cervix that wasn't fully dilated. What was the rush?

Why did this midwife make mom push in a McRoberts position if she wasn't ready? Why was she pushing at all?

The beginning of the vid sounds like the midwife is telling the mom it's time to push even though it's not....who's having this baby anyway?

why risk a torn cervix or put mom through the discomfort of a cervical lip on purpose?

Natural Unassisted Home Water Childbirth Freebirth Organic Birth Homeschool Children and Husband Family.

2011-07-28T07:20:00.000-07:00

you having your kid there with all that exposed is sick and twisted. childbirth or not that was inappropriate!

Scariest celebrity surgeries

2010-11-21T02:16:00.000-08:00

No matter what costume you pick, you can't ever be as truly terrifying as the good people of Hollywood, whose Hallowe'en faces, courtesy of bad plastic surgery, are theirs to keep 365 days a year. It's like a mask you can never take off.Some plastic surgery -- Joan Rivers and Jocelyn Wildenstein spring to mind -- is legendary. Some, like Priscilla Presley, is just tragic.

And a lot of it is just mystifying: What was Heidi Montag thinking?

In a world where even Brad Pitt is rumoured to have had Restylane injections to smooth the lines around his mouth, you can be sure that for celebrities, anything goes. Everything does go eventually, people, what with gravity and all, and that's why men and women get on the surgery merry-go-round to begin with.

And what can you have done? Your face and your breasts, of course, but there's also ear lobe reduction, gum line alteration, butt plumping, upper arm lift, tummy tucking, hip sculpting, calf muscle implants, labia refurbishing, scalp realignment, digit reshaping, knee lifts, toe embellishment, bellybutton outing, personality transplant and soul reupholstery.

Computer Imaging Adds to 'Nose Job' Satisfaction: Study

2010-11-21T02:12:00.000-08:00

FRIDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Computer imaging software gives patients a fairly good idea of how they'll look after a "nose job," and the majority value the preview process, a new study finds.The "morphing" software, used by plastic surgeons since the 1990s, appears to improve patient-doctor communication, surgeons involved with the study said.

"Having an image of an individual in front of you and manipulating that nose on the screen is better than [the patient] showing me pictures of 15 other women's noses she likes," said Dr. Andrew Frankel, senior study author and a plastic surgeon at the Lasky Clinic in Beverly Hills, Calif. "It's her face and her nose."

16 Celebrities; Before and After Plastic Surgery

2010-11-21T02:09:00.000-08:00

Gone are the days of yore when beauty was the one that was inborn and was an art of nature. With the advent of plastic surgery each and every wish, when it comes to ones’ face and body, can come true by merely coming under the knife of a surgeon but with a heavy pocket.

Talking of celebrities, plastic surgery has become a norm, be it related to alteration in face or implanting fake body parts. Within the years a drastic changes has been encountered in various celebs albeit by the cost of the natural pure look.

CELEBRITY PLASTIC SURGERY GONE TOO FAR?”

2010-11-21T02:05:00.000-08:00

With candid and shocking revelations from some of America’s most famous celebrities, ABC News will air an hour-long special anchored by ABC News’ Cynthia McFadden, “Primetime: Celebrity Plastic Surgery Gone Too Far?” on Wednesday, November 24 (10:00 – 11:00 p.m. ET.) on ABC. The program tells the inside story of how plastic surgery changed the world of celebrity forever -- and the price some of these stars have paid -- including the procedures, do’s and don’ts, and the real scoop of who has had what done to their bodies.

Katherine Heigl on Plastic Surgery

2010-11-17T07:18:00.000-08:00

Kelly Carlson Plastic Surgery

2010-11-16T07:20:00.000-08:00

Heidi Klum shows her goods in public

2010-11-14T07:22:00.000-08:00

Ashley Tisdale - Before & After nose job

2010-11-13T07:24:00.000-08:00

Pam Gets a Perfect White Smile after surgery

2010-11-12T07:33:00.000-08:00

Mobile phones can save lives of mothers in childbirth, infants and children

2010-11-09T19:08:00.000-08:00

Cell phones can save the lives of mothers in childbirth, and improve the care of newborns and children, reaching underserved populations in remote areas, according to experts.

"With mobile technologies for health, called 'mhealth' or 'mobile health,' we're extending capabilities to where they don't exist today," says David Aylward, who heads mHealth Alliance.

"At the most basic level, mobile phones can be used to keep track of people, call for emergency assistance, remind them of appointments and share information," said Julian Schweitzer, former Chair of The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Care.

"But then you can layer on things like check lists, protocols, the steps to ensure a safe birth and action instructions in particular circumstances," she added.

Used by midwives in rural, urban slums and isolated areas, cell phones can also be attached to diagnostic devices, including those used for remote fetal monitoring or remote wireless ultrasound.

"In the near future, wireless diagnostics like stethoscopes, blood pressure, temperature and insulin monitors, and ultrasounds will enable remote diagnosis and treatment far from the closest doctor or clinic, " said Aylward.

Of special concern are MDGs 4 and 5, which call for reduced child and maternal mortality. At the most recent assessment, 49 of the 68 high-burden countries had made little, if any progress toward meeting those goals.

But mHealth has the ability to support those goals by improving information and communication for mothers, providers and administrators.

"We are talking about applying in health care the same kinds of sophisticated information systems that most businesses use, extending them with wireless to reach everyone. In low and middle- income countries we have the opportunity to leap frog the developed world and do it right. This is a huge opportunity," said Schweitzer. (ANI)

Childbirth happens everywhere...one contraction after another - Article for Family Doctors

2010-11-09T19:01:00.000-08:00

by WINTERGREEN .

Childbirth! It happens every where. An event unique to women’s lives … happening every place on Earth, in every culture. While our cultures have great diversity in approaches to pregnancy, birth, after birth care and reintroduction of the mother and baby into the daily activity of society; childbirth is extraordinarily similar to all women. It’s a natural consequence of being pregnant and exhibits itself as a series of contractive waves that build in intensity, length and frequency. Then the contractive waves change to expulsive efforts and our babies move out of our bodies…out the same hole.

So, we are faced with two realities: our culture diversity and our universal humanity. Common Knowledge Trust, a charitable Trust in New Zealand, produces The Pink Kit Method for birthing better™ resources. The resources explain the four universal components, common to all childbirth experiences and present them as resources for birth preparation, childbirth management and coaching (support) skills that ordinary pregnant women and their support people can use within their own cultural and religious beliefs.

Labour is a unique and infrequent Life experience. There are skills that any woman can learn in order to have a more positive experience and lessen potential birth trauma to themselves and their baby.

The four foundations and universal components of The Pink Kit Method are:

· Know your birthing body: All women share one human body. We can ‘map our pelvis’, discover the curve or flatness of our sacrum, feel what positions keep our ‘map’ open and our baby over the pelvic inlet. We can learn to internally relax inside our ‘Pelvic Clock’ and create space by using The Hip Lift, Kate’s Cat and Sit Bone Spread. All of us, men included, can ‘feel’ the Truth of this self knowledge. We can all ‘feel’ how our own tension can stop our bodies from being mobile thus inhibiting the birthing process.

· Managing Skills: Any woman and her support can learn to work together well. Women can develop pain management skills, how to focus their skills even when they feel pain.

· Breath, Language and Touch: All humans do these three behaviours. For example, there are only 4 ways that humans breathe and only two that are positive types of breathing in labour. The other two indicate that we are not coping well. We can learn those two and have our support people help us keep to them. These two positive breathing types can be used to focus our energy, expand areas of our body or relax parts of our body. Language or communication can move from general terms e.g. ‘relax’ to specific cues e.g. ‘soften inside your right hip.’ Non verbal communication can be established which a woman can use to cue her support person. Touch is as essential and women and her support people can learn a universal way to create deep relaxation of the inner soft tissue through Rising Touch.

Women should not have to struggle through labour or find the pain of labour (which is a very natural part of the process of childbirth) too overbearing. With simple to learn skills, based on preparation, women can respond to the concentrated work that labour requires.

· Preparing the birth canal: The inside of a woman’s vagina is as different as finger prints. The baby must pass through this pass. We can prepare that space to be more pliable and flexible. Many traditional cultures do prepare down there. Modern women do not. Besides the tightness of the vaginal soft tissue, women can tense up these inner muscles if she doesn’t like the sensation of her baby passing through that area e.g. feeling like you will move your bowel (in public). This can slow the delivery. A baby should not have to struggle through the vagina and a woman’s vagina does not need to be damaged when the internal work is done for 8 weeks before labour.

Common Knowledge Trust knows that these skills work because Common Knowledge Trust is the stories and compiled skills of thousands upon thousands of women and men from diverse backgrounds that have worked again and again to improve the birth experience. When women work through the pain of childbirth using good labour management skills, rather then tensing, then childbirth progresses more regularly.

Primary Health care

At the present time, primary health care still comes from the health profession down through Government policies to rural communities. There is rarely a blending of grassroots knowledge to the possibility of modern health delivery. Maternity care in modern countries is a good example, where primary health care has increased the use of operative birth and medical pain relief. As other countries modernize, is this the direct where childbirth should be heading.

The World Health Organization has promoted a midwifery model of care and New Zealand is a country where that was achieved in 1995. Over 85% of pregnant women are attended by a lead maternity carer who is a midwife. There is no shared care, yet referrals to specialists as needed. Midwives are direct entry trained, paid for their service by the Government. Women have choice of home or hospital delivery with the same continuity of care midwife. Yet, the caesarean rate has more than doubled from 13% to close to 30%.

Either there is a major health crisis or something is terribly wrong with something. Common Knowledge Trust has a point of view. The Midwifery Model of care tells women that birth is natural and shouldn’t be medicalized. Yet, most modern women will take pain relief for her natural headache. Very little of illness, injury or death (which are all natural parts of Life) are accepted by people who have access to sophisticated modern medical and pharmacology systems. A prescription isn’t necessary for many medicines.

Considering that the actual ‘giving birth’ has potential risks yet is essentially Life giving, there is certainly a great deal of medical attention placed on pregnancy and risk avoidance in childbirth. Does that mean that the 30% of women and babies in New Zealand who are now having caesareans would be dead or injured without one? Consider this fact presented in Time magazine in 1994. More babies suffer injuries from domestic violence then die from all deaths for which children can be immunized. In fact, iatrogenic deaths and injuries in Australia rank no #3. Childbirth is well down the list. The infant mortality rate has not significantly improved because more women use pain relief or are delivered operatively. So something else must be going on. Common Knowledge Trust believes we simply lack skills.

Globalization

Globalization is having an increasing impact on all cultures. If we look at modern maternity care, we can honesty say that it looks likely that most babies will be born by caesarean section within a generation. Does anyone want to stop that?

Curiously, few people are looking at the level of childbirth skills a pregnant woman and her support people have. Instead the people look toward the modern professional to solve the ‘problem’. With health care costs soaring and the cost of a caesarean or a vaginal birth with an epidural being higher than a spontaneous vaginal delivery, how can we change the direction of modern birth? And how do these modern birth practices impact modernizing countries and cultures? In The Gathering of Traditional Midwives that Common Knowledge Trust and The Zimbabwe Traditional and Medical Clinic co-hosted in a rural village in S. Zimbabwe, we discovered that the primary health care and the rural health care had not really sat down and spoken together. These rural women are no different from other women elsewhere.

Most births, when you get down to it, are a problem if the baby doesn’t come out and a woman bleeds too much. We must always remember that death is more accepted in traditional cultures than in the modern world where death is abhorred. In most traditional communities if twins or breech babies come out alive then it’s not a problem. A baby head down can have trouble coming out. Whereas in modern countries women are now delivered exclusively by caesarean because there is some added risk. Is that where primary health care in developing countries is going? Now, posterior babies are considered to be as great a risk for caesarean’s as a breech or twins.

Common Knowledge Trust and primary health care

Alongside, primary health coming from health professionals down to the communities, there is a possibility of teaching all women about the common knowledge in The Pink Kit Method for birthing better™. Instead of being afraid of the pain of childbirth, all women can learn to work with the contractions with directed breathing, staying open, being in good positions for the baby and keeping the pelvis mobile. At it’s most basic, childbirth is an exercise in how an object (the baby) moves through a container (the woman). The object has to pass through a tube (pelvis), open a diaphragm (cervix) and aperture (vagina). There is no doubt that women’s minds can impact that process. When she perceives of the pain as too much she will tense up.

When women respond to labour ‘pain’ by tensing up they close their container by using certain parts of their soft tissues: muscles and connective tissue. If you want to feel how easy it is to stop mobility in your own body do this. Look straight ahead without tensing up any muscles, hold your head still. Don’t allow your head to turn. Now, take one index finger and place it on the side of your forehead and gently apply pressure to your head in an effort to turn your head. With little effort on your part you can stop that from happening even when you apply a great deal of pressure. That same type of immobility can easily slow down the passage of this object through our body.

Common Knowledge Trust would like to work with health organizations to make The Pink Kit resources available to women everywhere in the form of simple e-education tools.

Simple and culturally adaptable

The Pink Kit Method is a simple set of skills that any woman in any culture or religious background can learn in the privacy of her own home. All of us are fascinated when we learn something simple that we didn’t know existed and makes such common sense. Perhaps in modern countries when everyone begins to think about birth more clearly, then The Pink Kit resources will have an impact on modern birth experience. That would require a huge attitude adjustment. As one doctor said ‘Every woman could have an early epidural before she found labour too difficult to cope with than more women would deliver vaginally’. Well, that’s one very modern way to deal with ‘pain’. At least this doctor recognizes that women are having difficulty dealing with the ‘pain’ of labour and that epidurals take the pain away and then she relaxes! Hardly a primary health solution!

If we take one step further in primary health, we could all acknowledge that the reason women are having trouble coping with labour contractions in the first place is that they lack basic labour manage skills. So much emphasis in modern maternity has been about ‘choice’ and ‘information’. Skills are non-existent. There is actually the promotion of such ideas that strongly inform women that the less they know the more likely they will ‘instinctively’ or ‘intuitively’ birth. This is an idea promoted strongly in the Midwifery Model which sees itself as an ancient art and makes a horrible and terribly misinformed belief that traditional women birthed ‘intuitively’. In fact, every traditional culture has it’s own sophisticated health system. Although modern scientific medical care often looks down on traditional health knowledge, everyone knows that a great deal of medicines came from herbs. At one time the use of maggots was considered unclean. In fact, primary health is best coming from traditional health care and then blending with modern health systems one a culture to culture basis.

Common Knowledge Trust could take an active role in developing a world wide birth preparation program that women could do in their own home. Every woman could be directed to The Pink Kit resources, learn them and use the skills in labour. Women don’t have to like labour pain to feel empowered by birth. They can just feel really good about how they managed themselves.

Fitting in

Where would The Pink Kit resources fit into less modern countries? Without sophisticated, modern medical care available nor the money to implement such programs there are still two primary concerns at all births: babies that don’t come out and women who bleed too much. Of course there are many other issues facing women in less modern cultures depending on their local situation. For example, the rural poor in less modern countries have different health issues than people still living in their traditional environment. And, those traditional people living on the fringe of multi-national development such as agribusiness, mining or natural resource exploration that have depleted or altered the historic resources will have different health issues from people who live in areas where there is still an abundance in their natural environment. People living in the tropics have different issues from people living in cold climates.

The reality is that The Pink Kit resources are likely to be used by people who are still living traditionally yet in some way moving toward more modern ways of doing this yet primary health is still held in traditional health. They are more likely to want to prevent problems because that is always the best thing to do. The Pink Kit resources may or may not be used by those people who have totally moved away from their traditions. These people often whole heartedly embrace modern maternity care and even elect for caesareans and definitely use medical pain relief. This is mingled with beliefs that women ‘suffer’ in childbirth and that the modern system is safer and cleaner while their traditional system is dirty and dangerous. The use of modern medicine in developing countries also indicates a sense of socially or economically upward mobility.

However, back in the village, primary health can bring The Pink Kit resources to the average pregnant woman. All women want birth to go well and no woman wants to suffer in childbirth or be traumatized by giving birth. All women in any culture can adapt this knowledge to their culture and beliefs because they are common sense skills. Common Knowledge Trust is looking for individuals and organizations that can help us produce IT resources: CDs, CDrom and DVD that can easily be used to introduce primary health providers to the skills and can be shown to women in health camps. Common Knowledge Trust is also prepared to train workshop leaders at local levels to pass these common sense skills to women in their communities.

The future of childbirth

The birth of our children in modern societies will either become further removed from our own personal experience or we need to change whole cultural attitudes. Regardless of where a woman gives birth or with whom, what health issues may surround her, the need for medical assessments, monitoring or procedures, any pregnant woman can have wonderful labour management skills that work. Skilled women struggle less in birth. They accept the process because they use their skills. They still may find labour painful, but they chose positive birthing behaviours rather than reactive ones. Their support people or coaches also need to learn practical skills that work in all birthing situations so that they can really help women to maintain positive birth management skills.

When birth professionals are at such births, they compliment them on how well they managed and what a good coach they had, sadly often believing the woman had an ‘easy or lucky’ birth yet wishing more women and men could work so well through birth.

For the past 30 years, or perhaps forever, is has been a pervasive belief that there is nothing a woman can do to prepare for childbirth. There is certainly no way we can anticipate what childbirth will be like; however, we can certainly have practical, effective skills to work through the process as it unfolds. Changing attitudes will take a long time. Right now people are focusing on women having choices and knowing what her options are. Common Knowledge Trust would like women to know they must prepare for childbirth and here are the skills with which to prepare. Then use the skills in labour.

When we allow our container to accept the passage of this object because we have prepared our container, then birth can be less traumatic to both ourselves and our babies.

About the Author:

Wintergreen is trustee and founder of the Common Knowledge Trust based in Nelson, New Zealand. The trust promotes the Pink Kit Method which gives private childbirth lessons for use in ones own home. For more information visit the website http://www.birthingbetter.com.

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Alternative Treatment and Ways to Ease Labor and Childbirth

2010-11-09T18:59:00.000-08:00

By: Ricky Hussey

Many women feel that natural childbirth is less traumatic for the baby and gives them more control over the birth. Start preparation for this early in pregnancy by taking regular gentle exercise, such as swimming and walking, which tones the muscles and improves overall fitness. Eat a sensible diet and take supplements or folic acid in recommended amounts. Draw up a birth plan which sets out how you want the birth to be managed. If it is your first baby, join a natural childbirth class to learn breathing techniques.

Relaxation and Breathing Concentrating on breathing can have a soothing effect and help you relax.

Water Birth Immersion in a pool filled with warm water helps relieve the pain of contractions, and some women go on to give birth in the water. Find out if your hospital provides a birth pool, or if you can hire one. Herbal Medicine Raspberry leaf tea drunk over the last three months of pregnancy helps tone the womb.

Aromatherapy Rosemary oil, lavender, and camomile, rubbed on your wrists, forehead, and neck, relieves pain during labor. Massage Gentle downward strokes can ease pain, especially in the lower back.

Consult a qualified practitioner/therapist for:

Acupuncture Permission from the hospital where you are giving birth will be needed if you intend to use this form of pain relief.

Tens (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) This is a version of acupuncture. It works by sending electrical impulses to the brain. These block the pain messages and stimulate the release of endorphines, the body's natural painkillers.

Hypnosis To help ease tension it is important to practice the necessary techniques from early on in pregnancy. Permission from the hospital where you are giving birth will be needed if you want a hypnotist to attend you at the delivery.

Torn Perineum

The perineum is the skin between the vagina and the anus. It is stretched during childbirth and may sometimes tear. In some cases, stitches will be needed to repair the damage.

Prevention

Massage the area regularly before your estimated date of delivery so that it becomes more supple. Aromatherapy Rub half a teaspoonful of jojoba oil into the area daily for eight weeks before your expected delivery date.

Treatment

If you had stitches after delivery, apply a cold compress to the area (try a bag of frozen peas wrapped in a face cloth), then dry the area thoroughly. The warm air from a hairdryer works well. Aromatherapy Add two drops of lavender and two drops of cypress oil to a warm bath and soak the area for 10 to 15 minutes.

Stretch Marks

These are pink or reddish streaks on the skin which eventually fade to silver. They are caused by overstretching the skin.

Treatment/Prevention

Massage Essential oils of frankincense, lavender, or rosewood should be rubbed into the abdomen and upper legs during pregnancy.

Homeopathy Biochemic tissue salts Calc. fluor.

Diet and Nutrition Increase intake of vitamin E, or alternatively rub vitamin E oil into the skin.Read out for Vitamins. Check out arthritis treatment and home remedies

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Water Birth As A Pain Relief Option in Childbirth

2010-11-09T18:58:00.000-08:00

By: Mara Dower

A study in 2005, called 'Listening to Mothers II', was conducted by Childbirth Connection. In 2006 they reported: "While 14) used one or more types of medication for pain relief for at least some of the time during labor. Epidural or spinal analgesia was, by far, the most common (76) and cesarean (88) reported they were given narcotics such as Demerol or Stadol, while a small proportion underwent general anesthesia (3 of cesareans), used nitrous oxide gas (3). A small proportion of mothers (8) reported receiving both a narcotic and epidural or spinal analgesia."

All these drugs have a purpose, and that is to numb the mother so that her labour pains are minimised or dramatically wiped out. In that space of numbness, the natural laws of birthing disappear - the levels of Oxytocin diminish (the love hormone and natural pain inhibitor); contractions change, intensify or cease; the mother's body has less movement (including paralysis in the lower region with an epidural); and after birth the mother can face a challenging time connecting to her baby (as the baby is affected by the use of drugs too).

If you prefer to avoid all this but are afraid of labour pains, WATER BIRTHS are a fantastic way to experience natural pain relief. Statistics have shown that women who birth in water, or use water as a natural pain relief far outweighs many other pain killers out there.

According to Waterbirth International (http://www.waterbirth.org/mc/page.do, 2007), the benefits of a waterbirth and water labour include: " Speeds up labor " Reduces blood pressure " Gives mother more feelings of control " Provides significant pain relief " Promotes relaxation " Enables the mother to assume any position which is comfortable for labor and birth " Conserves her energy " Reduces the need for drugs and interventions " Gives mother a private protected space " Reduces perineal trauma and eliminates episiotomies " Reduces cesarean section rates " Is highly rated by mothers - typically stating they would consider giving birth in water again " Is highly rated by experienced providers " Encourages an easier birth for mother and a gentler welcome for baby

Warm water softens every part of the mother's body including all her muscles and ligaments, as well as the perineum, just like when you take a bath. The mother can float if she so desires which takes the pressure off around her body and belly. This allows freedom to manoeuvre and ride through the contractions, and assist the baby to move downward and outward.

If the water birth is at home, then the partner can jump inside the pool to fully support the mother, and of course catch his baby (which can be done outside of the pool too, just ask your midwife).

From my own personal experience, I'd highly recommend this type of pain relief. Yes, I experienced labour pain, but I managed to ride the waves with each contraction. With my natural hormones working too with the labour pains, I actually felt euphoric and managed the pain quite easily. I actually enjoyed my birth and the pain whilst being in the water. It was a very empowering experience to birth in water, at home.
As the baby is still connected to the uterus via the umbilical cord, it can enter the water and stay under for a bit, safely and soundly. It's a beautiful and peaceful way for a baby to come through the transition of womb to new open world, to mother (or father if he's catching the baby).

Some hospitals have the facilities to birth in a pool, so do your research before parking yourself at a hospital. If they don't have a pool, many birthing centers allow you to sit in a bath whilst riding through contractions, but then have to return to your room to birth. Contact a private midwife or doula, as they can assist with information about water and home births in your area. Google is a great search engine for information as well.

Mara Dower is a mum, lifestyle coach and has qualifications in various holistic practices. Integrating all of her skills during her pregnancy and labour, she experienced a beautiful natural and pain-free birth. Combining the two areas that she's passionate about, Mara with a number of experts is informing and empowering women and their partners so the choices they make about the most critical experience in their lives is the right one.

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Anna Nicole Smith - complete cesarean video

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NATURAL5

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