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How to Avoid an Episiotomy While in Labor

If there’s one thing you can avoid during labor…

What is an episiotomy?

An episiotomy is a planned cut by a doctor to your perineum in order to enlarge the opening for your baby to emerge.

Why Would Anyone Want an Episiotomy?

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Awesome Labor Coping Techniques That Work

How to cope with difficult contractions during labor?

There are many great ways to cope with difficult contractions during labor, wouldn’t it be great if they were all listed in one post?

Visualizations

Athletes training for competitions know all about visualizations. These influence the subconscious in producing the experience you want.

The same is true for childbirth.

Imagining and planning out how your labor will go can influence the process, believe it or not! Read more

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Top 5 Reasons Why I Don’t Get an Epidural During Labor & Delivery

As a former maternity nurse who saw way too many messed up epidurals, I knew I would never want to get one.

My motto became:

Better suffer through temporary pain of childbirth,

than risk suffering pain afterwards.

After I had my first birth without an epidural, my doula congratulated me on not asking for an epidural during labor.

I answered her that I never considered an option.

Here’s why: Read more

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Why Choose a Midwife Over a Doctor?

What is a midwife and why would you choose one over a doctor?

Isn’t it safer to have an OB deliver your baby?

What if something goes wrong?

I seemed to get these questions a lot when I was pregnant.

What are Midwives?

There are two types of midwives currently practicing:

Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) which is a Registered Nurse with a Midwifery degree on a Masters level.
Direct Entry Midwife is a midwife who became a midwife without the background of a nursing degree. Direct entry midwives include several subcategories which reflect the country they are practicing in and the legalities surrounding it.

Midwives are trained to deliver babies at home, in birthing centers and in hospitals.

How are midwives different from doctors?

Doctors go through 4 years of pre-med undergraduate studies. They then attend medical school for 4 years. After that they spend several years in internship and residency at a hospital in whichever field they are specializing in.

OB-GYNs, or Obstetricians, are studying many different fields of medicine when they are in medical school, not just obstetrics which may be a focus of just one semester.