7 of the Most Common Interventions During Labor and Birth

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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If youre going to be giving birth in a hospital setting, this episode is for you! You’ll want to know about the 7 most common interventions that you may come home against in your birth experience. We’ll also talk about how to avoid these interventions if possible and when they may be necessary. Links Mentioned: My Essential Birth CourseMy Essential Birth Postpartum CourseMy Essential Birth Instagram3 Free ExercisesGET IN TOUCH! 🤩 Reach out at any time to [email protected]. We...

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0:00.0	If you've heard my birth stories before, even with my third baby, my contractions were never closer than six minutes apart.
0:05.1	I would have been a poster child for let's intervene and do something to fix her body, right?
0:11.2	Never closer than six minutes apart.
0:13.2	And into active labor, hours and hours into active labor, I was exhausted and went to go lay down in my bed and I took a 45 minute nap where my contractions
0:21.0	spaced out and I had three contractions during that time, two or three. And I, from that nap,
0:27.5	right, I did wake up in transition. I woke up to having transition contractions and being
0:34.4	prepared to move into that pushing phase. Now, if you do that in a hospital setting, I think it's really important if you know this.
0:41.5	If you know that natural stalls occur, if you trust that your body is smart and it gives you
0:46.4	the breaks that you need and that it's doing other stuff inside there that we can't see and
0:50.9	don't quite understand when we're having these stalls, then we don't have to freak
0:54.9	out and say, my body's not working, labor's not going to continue. I'm never going to have to have,
0:59.7	or I'm never going to have this baby, which is often how it can be treated. And that's just not true.
1:10.1	Getting pregnant and giving birth are two of the most exciting things you can ever hope to experience in this life.
1:16.6	The moment you think you could be pregnant, you're frantically searching for all the best information.
1:21.6	Which is why you're here today?
1:22.6	I'm Stephanie King and with my many years of experience as a professional childbirth educator,
1:28.5	doula and lover of all things pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, I'm here to make preparing for
1:33.9	your birth enjoyable, empowering, and totally easy. Each week, I'll cover different topics,
1:40.2	interview professionals, and get into the nitty-gritty birth stories from Mamas just like you.
1:45.3	And when you're ready for more, you can join me in the My Essential Birth course at myessentialbirth.com,
1:51.2	where I take you step by step through exactly how to prepare your mind, body, spirit, and partner for a birth you love.
1:58.8	So let's get started.
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