Better ways to deliver
Saturday, August 29th, 2009It is pretty much agreed that the usual way to have a baby is when you deliver in a hospital. Or to be more specific it is assumed that medicine is necessary to deliver a baby. In this piece we are going to try to shatter some of those assumptions. We are going to offer alternatives that might be better.
Of course these observations are going to be coming from the viewpoint of my experience running a San Diego licensed midwife service.If you don’t know midwives in general are women who help other women during the delivery of a baby.A lot of the times without the use of medicine in a homebirth.
So why are women choosing this method of delivery? For the woman that choose this method and understand it, there are several reasons.
First off, the use of no medicine actually helps speed up the labor and delivery process. Most women don’t realize that the use of medicine actually slows down the labor.Women always use it because they are told it helps with the pain, but in reality it makes the pain happen longer. There are many certified midwives in San Diego who can show you proof of that.
Second, the use of the natural method and sometimes through waterbirth actually helps soothe and relax the bodies during delivery.This produces a delivery with less pain and makes having the delivery occur much faster. I have seen it as a homebirth midwife San Diego.
Those are a couple of the reasons that women choose a homebirth as the method to deliver. Although it has no use of medicine and usually no doctors it has proven to be a safe method. The delivery at home actually helps the delivery remain private and dignified.Rather than the hospital where there will be quite a few different people who will be poking and prodding you during labor.So for those few reasons, a lot of women are going the homebirth route.It is a dignified and safe way and a process that is natural.