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One of the effects that is sad due to our modern day and time in medicine is labor and delivery are pretty much medical procedures.
That might seem foreign to some people because most people already think of delivery as being a medical event. But that is the problem.It isn’t a medical event. It is an event that can be kept natural and as private as possible through alternatives. Women
should be made known to the other alternatives.
I would like to present one of those main alternatives from the perspective of a San Diego midwife.
That main alternate way is by having a homebirth midwife assisty you during your labor and delivery. This practice is known as midwifery and there are plenty of midwives San Diego.
As cesareans and induction rates soar in hospitals, it has turned the joyous event of a delivery into an negative experience.
That is one of the primary reasons for the surge in women asking for more natural deliveries through a certified or licensed midwife.
Labor and delivery don’t necessarily have to include drugs, procedures that are invasive, constant probing of areas that are private, etc. It can be done safely and effectively in a home environment through that homebirth method or even a waterbirth San Diego method.
It’s definitely an industry that is regulated highly.You are able to know all about a midwife’s experience and skill if you are considering hiring them.
But getting over that stigma of not having a baby in a hospital takes education. But through experience and statistics most women can see that a lot of times having a baby in a hospital negatively effects the process. From drugs that slow down the pregnancy, or speed up the pregnancy.To having to be put through a c-section.Hopefully women can see the comparisons and the contrast and see the success of using a midwife.
So for those women who want to try and keep the delivery of the baby a joyous occasion, using a midwife might be something they should look into.
With the dawn of the internet age, being able to find information about the natural process is as simple as doing a search on the internet.
There they should be able to find helpful information of the process to help them fully understand.They can view any safety concerns and how it is handled.And most importantly they are able to witness the keeping of the delivery of a child a monumental occasion that is kept private and is still a happy event.
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Having your child in the home? Who does such things? Didn’t that only happen back in the early days of our country when doctor’s had to go out to the prairie and deliver babies?
Not so. There is a large group of women who are discovering the benefts of having a baby at home, or homebirth as it is sometimes called.
This practice of having your baby at home is called midwifery. Although not doctors or nurses, people in this line of work called midwifery are professionally regulated. I myself have seen the steady rise of homebirths through my practice as a San Diego certified midwife.
The people, generally women, who perform this line of work are called homebirth midwives. Midwives is the term most people are familiar with and means a person who helps during childbirth by providing support of the labor and delivery.
Now why a midwife is usually not a doctor or nurse is because the practice of having your baby at home, or midwifery is generally the belief that pregnancy and birth are natural normal events. This is in stark contrast with the medical model which relies on medicine to assist and improve the pregnancy and delivery.
That out of the way, lets take a look at why women are having their babies at home. What are the benefits that are causing women to have homebirths?
First off, with the continued presence of the midwife, the length of labor can be reduced. Most women aren’t told that pain medications actually slows down the labor, even though it helps with the pain. This really causes more pain and the labor actuallly lasts longer.
Second, the techniques of midwifery actually reduces the likelihood of the need for forceps or other operative devices during delivery. The process of allowing the birth and delivery to happen naturally is what reduces the need for those devices.
Third, cesarean delivery possbilities are reduced. Most cesareans that happen in labor were because it was thought that a vaginal birth was not possible. Either because of the safety of the baby was in mind or the safety of the mother. When in reality the complication was created because the natural birth process wasn’t allowed to happen.
These are 3 benefits when you have a natural homebirth. There are many more, but I am sure most women in pregnancy would agree these are 3 huge benefits.
So although, most might consider it strange to want to have a child at home, studies have shown that allowing the natural birth process to happen is safer for the mother and the baby. With over 300 births attended as a homebirth midwife in San Diego, this has proven to be the case time and time again.
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Pregnancy and delivery; a source of joy and pain for the woman.Obviously joy is involved with the new baby, but if you ask most woman, they will also describe it was a source of unspeakable pain.
Well because of the pain that woman go through, there are two different schools of thought on how labor and delivery should happen. I am going to offer some perspective on one particular school of thought that I have gained first hand experience with by being a homebirth midwife San Diego.
There is the medical model for delivery which is associated with drugs to kill the pain, and sometimes cesarean to complete the delivery.
While there is a lesser known model, not as widely accepted, for those that have experienced it and believe in it, they consider it a safer alternative for the woman.
That model is called the midwifery model.That model is the exact opposite of the medical model which is usually used. Where the medical model relies heavily on medicine, hence “medical”, midwifery relies on the natural.Midwifery philosphy believes that pregnancy, labor, and delivery should happen as naturally as possible because it is a natural process.
This model is a profession practiced by midwives. Midwives San Diego are generally woman, who attend the birth, often times at the mother’s home. This midwife would then assist the woman in trying to get through labor as naturally as possible without medicine.
Contrary to popular belief, the non-use of medicine actually allows the labor to happen much faster because most pain killers actually slows the labor down.
The midwife as a profession does have a regulatory board that licenses, certifies, and oversees the individual.
Although usually not a nurse or doctor, a midwife can be a nurse as well.
Even though they are not a doctor or nurse, they do carry with them some medical equipment, such as resuscitation devices and suturing equipment.
So this is what a midwife is and what midwifery is in regards to pregnancy and delivery.
Their goals are to allow the birth and delivery to happen as naturally as possible. This reduces the likelihood of a c-section.Does not subject you to hospital procedures that are invasive such as episiotomys.Less medical intrusion will be used such as drugs to speed up or slow the pregnancy or the breaking of the water. And the best part of all that a woman will love, generally labor happens much quicker naturally.
Hopefully this article sheds some light on the benefits of midwifery and having a midwife for your pregnancy.At the very minimum, maybe it gives you some other options to think about and look into. Remember this is first hand knowledge from a San Diego midwife.
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