Nine months seems like an endless journey: a big belly, endless going to the toilet, swelling, hospitals, tests, examinations and worries about a small creature that you do not see yet, but feel very well. But everything comes to an end, and childbirth becomes the logical ending. However, any woman becomes a little uneasy when she thinks that she is facing a prenatal ward. How to behave in order to help the baby and ease his task, we will talk today.
Rule number 1: ask less friends
Women love to remember how the birth took place. However, if you are expecting a baby, and your friends have become mothers long ago, then try to avoid such conversations. We are all different, and the subjective level of pain experienced in the hospital can also be very different. Listening to various scary stories, you involuntarily begin to perceive childbirth as a punishment for women. However, this is not at all true. You have been given an amazing opportunity to go from beginning to end the path of the birth of a new life. You stand at its origins, moreover, you open the door for an amazing journey of a new person, a journey of a lifetime. That's what the prenatal ward means. How to behave? As you behave, the whole process of childbirth will go on, so you need to start preparing yourself psychologically in advance.
We start in advance
To experience less panic and excitement, you need to know what awaits you. If you don’t know anything about the process of childbirth, then the phrase “prenatal ward” sounds very frightening. How to behave among all these groaning women, obstetricians and anesthetists, besides experiencing all the increasing contractions? The conclusion is simple: you need to study how childbirth occurs, what awaits you at each stage - and then there will be no excitement, and you can not only control yourself, but also help others with your own example.
When is the time to go to the hospital
Childbirth is rarely a spontaneous process. A few weeks before the baby is born, you will begin to feel the harbingers. This is a falling stomach, heaviness, tension of the uterus and weak attempts. Finally, about 12 hours before the onset of labor, the mucous plug opens , opening the cervix. Now you need to check whether all the things are collected, give recommendations to relatives, in what order they will be needed when you are taken to the hospital, and try to rest properly. It is best to refuse heavy food during this period, kefir and fruits will be an excellent option. Take your favorite pose and meditate a little. Imagine yourself a bud that is preparing to bloom and reveal a magnificent flower to the world. Remember all the lessons of respiratory gymnastics and repeat them again: this is very useful, because soon you will have a prenatal ward. How to behave in the process of childbirth, we will talk in more detail further.
First stage of labor
The most exciting time is coming: your waters are leaving and the first, still relatively weak contractions begin. Psychologists do not recommend going to the hospital during this period. Instead of frantically recalling how to behave in the prenatal ward, you can still be surrounded by relatives. There is at least 8 hours left before childbirth, so take a shower calmly, if desired, make a cleansing enema, shave your crotch, and put on clean underwear. This will allow you to calm down a bit and feel more confident in the birth ward. Talk to your baby, because he is also not easy now, tell me that you will see you very soon. It's time to remember the first breathing exercise, which helps a lot at the very beginning of contractions (this is even deep breathing). Inhale through the nose slowly and smoothly and exhale in the same way. Do not hold your breath - this is the most important thing. From the time that contractions become regular, you can already go to the hospital, where doctors will examine you.
Autotraining in the prenatal ward
After you are brought to the hospital, doctors will offer you to change clothes, take tests, and you will also be examined by an obstetrician-gynecologist. Only after this the prenatal ward opens its doors to you. How to behave? Psychologist's advice suggests that the most important thing is internal self-control. Nothing terrible happens. Periodic contractions are only rhythmic muscle contractions, a bit more intense than those we experience in the gym. Thanks to them, the uterus opens approximately on the finger per hour, which means that approximately 8-10 hours will pass before the neck opens so as to miss the baby’s head. Then it remains only to help the child still go through the birth canal. Realizing all this, it’s much easier for you to control the situation.
If you feel that you are in a panic, lie on your side curled up in a ball and say to yourself: “I am completely calm, every minute, every fight brings me closer to the appearance of my baby. Each my breath carries the oxygen necessary for my baby, so I breathe slowly and measuredly. "I let my body open like a flower so that my baby can leave it without injuring itself and me." In addition, you will need to remember how to breathe properly during childbirth.
To relieve pain
This knowledge is necessary for everyone who is waiting for the prenatal ward. How to behave? Practical tips for women are now very popular, but still they are not enough, since women continue to be afraid of childbirth. The hardest part is to survive the contractions themselves, which, over and over again, are becoming more intense. However, a vicious circle most often acts here: pain causes tension, the woman in labor holds her breath, shrinks into a glomerulus, pinches, and as a result the pain only intensifies. Therefore, first of all think about your baby: what is it like now, when the environment itself, his whole world became hostile and began to tear him away. During the bout itself, switch to dog-like breathing. This is a frequent gusty breathing that allows you to survive the very peak of the fight, but breathing is not recommended for more than 30 seconds.
Period of activity and rest
Now the bill is on the clock, and procrastination is bad for your baby. Childbirth should not be delayed, and this is greatly facilitated by the passive role of the mother, if she constantly lies and fights pain, tightening her muscles even more, preventing the normal course of labor. That is why it is important to talk about how to behave in the prenatal ward giving birth. At your disposal is the entire chamber, where you can lie down and stand on all fours, walk and swing on a ball. If generic activity is weak, then it is necessary to stimulate it through movement. Periodically, a nurse will come to you to advise you on how to behave in the prenatal ward. Practical recommendations usually include self-massage techniques, as well as a certain number of exercises that need to be performed.
Massage and gymnastics
Acupressure of the lower back is usually very good at relieving pain . To do this, clench your fists and massage them with the outer corners of the sacral rhombus. Usually such measures are necessary when preparation for childbirth is already underway . How to behave in the prenatal ward at this time? Usually, fear and excitement before contractions are already receding, and childbirth is perceived as an immediate relief, more likely with joy than with fear. Therefore, if you do not take into account fatigue, then this period is emotionally somewhat easier than the one that was at the very beginning of labor. Between fights, it is still recommended to walk, swing on the gymnastic ball, and during fights, breathe and massage properly.
After a fight they become very long and painful and can reach several minutes with an interval of 5-10 seconds, and it is not easy to “breathe” them. Therefore, at the very beginning of the bout, a deep exhalation is made, then a full breath, during the bout itself, breathe dog-like, superficially and often, then a strong exhale and all over again. This is necessary when you still can’t push, but I really want to.
Attempts and expulsion of the fetus
It is this period that is most feared, but in fact it is a short and relatively painless period, although it requires a lot of calculation. Rather, it is hard physical work, when it is necessary to make every effort to push the fetus through the birth canal with the help of muscles, which becomes possible due to the previous stage - the opening of the cervix. So, how to prepare for childbirth and how to behave in the prenatal ward? First of all, this is not a place for tantrums and screams. Doctors will only help you if you work together. So, get ready, and when the desire to push already becomes unbearable, call a doctor. If he considers that the discovery is optimal, then you will be transferred to the clan branch. Now everything is quite simple. You need to rest with your feet and grab the handrails with your hands, wait for the contractions, inhale with full breasts, tightly tighten your lips and direct all the energy of the inspiration down, pushing the child out. As soon as the head appears, the midwife will ask you to ease the attempts. Then you can rest, the residual labor activity is enough for the child to come out completely. Then the obstetrician will examine you, and the pediatrician will take care of the baby.