Class 6: Variations & Complications, Interventions, Birth Plans
Assignments
Reading: Purple 16-19, Pink 12-15, Yellow 8-11,17-25 (if time, read the birth stories at the end of the yellow book)
Exercise: Keep up with good posture and positioning to try to encourage your baby into the ideal position! And regular exercise, too.
Nutrition: Eat well and feel the benefits this week!
Relaxation: Start creating a music playlist and use it now to relax! Keep working on physical and mental relaxation DAILY.
**Create a birth plan draft and email it to me or bring it next week for a small incentive. :) Start reviewing pieces of your plan with your care provider at each visit.
Exercise: Keep up with good posture and positioning to try to encourage your baby into the ideal position! And regular exercise, too.
Nutrition: Eat well and feel the benefits this week!
Relaxation: Start creating a music playlist and use it now to relax! Keep working on physical and mental relaxation DAILY.
**Create a birth plan draft and email it to me or bring it next week for a small incentive. :) Start reviewing pieces of your plan with your care provider at each visit.
Follow-up Information
Breech
External Cephalic Version (EvidenceBasedBirth)
About Breech (SpinningBabies)
Ideas to try to flip a breech baby (SpinningBabies)
Music in Labor
About.com article about choosing music for labor
BIRTH PLANS
http://www.mothering.com/articles/sample-birth-plan/
http://www.babycenter.com/calculators-birthplan
External Cephalic Version (EvidenceBasedBirth)
About Breech (SpinningBabies)
Ideas to try to flip a breech baby (SpinningBabies)
Music in Labor
About.com article about choosing music for labor
BIRTH PLANS
http://www.mothering.com/articles/sample-birth-plan/
http://www.babycenter.com/calculators-birthplan
Research each of these topics and indicate your preference in your own birth plan draft.
IV: used to give fluids, medications (antibiotics, pitocin, etc.)
Consider what you've learned, your feelings & your own situation. Decide your preference and include it in your plan.
AROM/Amniotomy: a provider might offer to break your bag of waters for you
Your options: After asking questions, you may decide to agree, delay, or deny this offer
Consider what you've learned, your feelings & your own situation. Decide your preference and include it in your plan.
Episiotomy (if you need more info than what was discussed in class, let me know)
Assisted Delivery: use of vacuum/foreceps (if you need more info than what was discussed in class, let me know)
Fetal Monitoring: the way your provider monitors baby's heart rate
Your options: Considering the evidence and your specific situation, you may request Continuous Electronic Fetal Monitoring (often standard), Intermittent Electronic Fetal Monitoring (often the "compromise" or Intermittent Auscultation (will take more specific plans with your provider/location) and include it in your plan. If you go with EFM, talk to your birth location about using the telemetry unit (wireless) so you have more mobility.
Medication in Labor: (if you need more info than what was discussed in class, let me know)
C-Section: Here are some resources for your "C-section backup plan preferences"
*Remember, you ALWAYS have the right to change your mind if the circumstances change. Write your plan with your ideal preferences in mind.*
Let me know if I forgot something or if you need more information!
Next week we'll talk about babies!
IV: used to give fluids, medications (antibiotics, pitocin, etc.)
- Are IV fluids necessary? (Evidence Based Birth)
- What's the evidence for a saline lock? (Evidence Based Birth)
- "First Do No Harm: Another Reason to Ditch routine IVs in Labor" (Science & Sensibility)
Consider what you've learned, your feelings & your own situation. Decide your preference and include it in your plan.
AROM/Amniotomy: a provider might offer to break your bag of waters for you
Your options: After asking questions, you may decide to agree, delay, or deny this offer
Consider what you've learned, your feelings & your own situation. Decide your preference and include it in your plan.
Episiotomy (if you need more info than what was discussed in class, let me know)
Assisted Delivery: use of vacuum/foreceps (if you need more info than what was discussed in class, let me know)
Fetal Monitoring: the way your provider monitors baby's heart rate
- Evidence-Based Fetal Monitoring (Evidence Based Birth)
- Is the "admission strip" monitoring support by evidence? (Science and Sensibility)
- What are some indications for continuous EFM? (Science and Sensibility)
Your options: Considering the evidence and your specific situation, you may request Continuous Electronic Fetal Monitoring (often standard), Intermittent Electronic Fetal Monitoring (often the "compromise" or Intermittent Auscultation (will take more specific plans with your provider/location) and include it in your plan. If you go with EFM, talk to your birth location about using the telemetry unit (wireless) so you have more mobility.
Medication in Labor: (if you need more info than what was discussed in class, let me know)
C-Section: Here are some resources for your "C-section backup plan preferences"
- Click on "handouts" at the top of this page and you'll see a pdf file of an example cesarean birth plan
- See video of a more gentle cesarean at the bottom of this page
- BabyCenter video and explanation of a C-section
- Video montage of a woman with cesareans and then a VBAC: http://vimeo.com/5648654
- 15 Helpful tips for a better cesarean (BirthWithoutFear)
- International Cesarean Awareness Network and local ICAN group
- (suspected) "Big Baby" (Evidence Based Birth)
- Low Amniotic Fluid- two articles by (Mama Birth) and (Rebecca Dekker)
- Past Due Date (Gloria LeMay)
- ...does induction always work? a look at failed inductions (Evidence Based Birth)
*Remember, you ALWAYS have the right to change your mind if the circumstances change. Write your plan with your ideal preferences in mind.*
Let me know if I forgot something or if you need more information!
Next week we'll talk about babies!