I mean, women, we were designed to do this. Narrator: Seven days after her due date, Samiyyah's labor kicks into gear. Samiyyah is 3 centimeters dilated, percent effaced, and her water hasn't broken yet, which is common in the first stage of labor. Birth centers offer a more relaxed and intimate alternative to hospitals for women expecting uncomplicated births. Helping her through her first natural birth is her husband, Arvan. Her mother-in-law, Irena, and 6-year-old son Safi are there for support.
Samiyyah: We've talked about, you know, what he's gonna see, we've shown him pictures, and I think he'll be okay. Narrator: As her contractions pick up, she starts experiencing painful back labor, typically caused by the baby's head pressing against the lower spine. Samiyyah finds some relief by trying a combination of slow steady breathing, constant deep massaging and counterpressure, spending lots of time in a heated Jacuzzi, and trying different labor positions.
Narrator: Her midwife feels it's time to break her water with an amni hook, since she can feel the amniotic sac bulging. This is a common procedure and usually helps speed up the labor process. Samiyyah: I thought it would be painful, but it wasn't at all. Actually it was like a relief of pressure. Narrator: Her contractions now intensify as she starts to feel the urge to push. This is called hard labor or transition.
The muscles your body uses to contract are transitioning from dilating the cervix to pushing the baby down and out. Midwife: The intensity of the contractions is increasing, and just a certain force is now really behind that baby coming.
Narrator: Though most mothers dilate nearly 8 to 10 centimeters before transitioning, Samiyyah is only 5 centimeters dilated and is having trouble resisting the urge to push. Narrator: Her midwife agrees her body is ready to deliver. Pushing before being fully dilated is uncommon.
This is why each caregiver has to manage her patient's labor on an individual basis. The midwife made the right decision, listening to her body. With just 11 minutes of pushing, Arvan and Samiyyah's baby emerges.
Narrator: Dad cuts the umbilical cord, and the midwife collects some of the cord blood for routine testing. It's not over yet. The midwife helps deliver the placenta, and a nurse presses on the fundus -- the upper part of the uterus -- to check how much the uterus has contracted.
Samiyyah tore along her previous episiotomy line, and her midwife repairs it with stitches, which takes 15 minutes to complete. Narrator: Samiyyah is now breastfeeding and bonding with her baby. Incredibly, in an hour, she is showered up and savoring some well-deserved fettucini Alfredo.
It was a fast delivery, with just four hours and 11 minutes of labor. Samiyyah's natural birth is a success, and she's ready to try it again. Narrator: Everyone played a supportive part on the birth team… Even big brother Safi got to announce the news that his brother was born. In this baby birth video, the mother gives birth in an inflatable pool. While she does have midwives observing, she delivers the child herself.
The midwives are very hands off. This home birth looks the most similar to the hospital births—the mother delivers while lying flat on her back with the midwife delivering the baby.
Some women opt for unassisted delivery also known as freebirth , which means they deliver their baby by themselves or with the help of a partner without the help of a medical professional. Some women think delivering on hands and knees or in other non-traditional positions not lying on your back helps the mother deliver the baby faster and less painfully. This baby birth video is similar to the last, but it shows an alternate delivery position.
This mother crouches with her hands providing some support. She delivers by herself with some support from her spouse. In this freebirth delivery video, this incredible mother delivers her own baby while standing up.
Doing an unassisted delivery while standing up is risky since you could drop the baby, but this mother catches her baby no problem. This is a very atypical home birth video. Most women who choose to deliver unassisted do so in another position. This mother seems to struggle to yank her baby out through the small space between her body and the toilet seat. Along with water births, hypnobirthing has risen in popularity recently.
Some studies seem to suggest it may help ease labor pains and result in less C-sections and shorter labor. Not all mothers who undergo hypnobirth attempt hypnosis, some simply use relaxation, meditation, and visualization techniques. The following videos will provide you with an array of different birth scenarios where hypnobirthing was used—in the hospital, at home, in a water birth. For the delivery of this baby, the mother uses hypnobirth techniques in her home birth assisted by a midwife.
The mother gives birth in a crouched position with her partner supporting her. She uses controlled breathing and delivers the baby herself under the watchful eye of her midwife.
In less than one in 80, births , the baby is born en caul or inside the still intact amniotic sac. Supposedly, being born that way is a sign of good luck. This baby delivery video does show some blood and other bodily fluids, so those with weak stomachs may want to skip this one.
Miscarrying at any point during pregnancy can be heartbreaking. Losing the baby so close to the end can be especially challenging. This brave woman shared the delivery video of her stillborn in the hospital.
Hopefully, watching the baby delivery videos above gave you some insight into the different possibilities for your delivery. When creating your birth plan, you need to ask yourself some questions:. Skip to content. Once the baby is breathing, then blood is shunted to its lungs where it receives much better oxygenated blood than it was getting from the placenta. Holding the baby below the level of the placenta results in pooling of placental blood within the newborn.
It is better to keep the baby more or less level with the placenta until the cord is clamped. If the baby is not breathing well after delivery and needs resuscitation, immediately clamp and cut the cord so you can move the baby to the resuscitation area.
Immediately after delivery of the baby, the placenta is still attached inside the uterus. Some time later, the placenta will detach from the uterus and then be expelled. Immediately after the delivery of the baby, uterine contractions stop and labor pains go away. As the placenta separates, the woman will again feel painful uterine cramps.
As the placenta descends through the birth canal, she will again feel the urge to bear down and will push out the placenta. After delivery of the placenta, the uterus normally contracts firmly, closing off the open blood vessels which previously supplied the placenta.
Without this contraction, rapid blood loss would likely prove very problematic or worse. To encourage the uterus to firmly contract, oxytocin 10 mIU IM can be given after delivery.
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