In the vast majority of hospital births, doctors offer women some type of anesthesia to alleviate the pain of uterine contractions during labor. Natural childbirth (birth without medication or medical intervention) is becoming more popular in America and Europe, partly because of women’s concerns that anesthesia used during childbirth may be transferred to the unborn baby. This mother has just given birth in a birthing pool. The warm water relaxes the mother’s muscles and provides some relief from the pain of labor.
Have It Your Way: Redesigning Birth
After Decades Of Letting Doctors Run The Show, More Women Are Taking Big Decisions Into Their Own Hands. Water birth, homebirth, HypnoBirthing--when Marion McCartney started as a nurse-midwife 30 years ago, none of those were popular, and birth was just birth. Women didn't get to choose their method of labor. If they were lucky, their doctors let them choose who stayed beside them as they pushed. "It was a medical event, not a personal experience," McCartney says. "Women were chaining their husbands to the delivery table so they'd be allowed to stay in the room. They didn't have any control." Fore more details, please download!
ine contractions during labor. Natural childbirth (birth without medication or medical intervention) is becoming more popular in America and Europe, partly because of women’s concerns that anesthesia used during childbirth may be transferred to the unborn baby. This mother has just given birth in a birthing pool. The warm water relaxes the mother’s muscles and provides some relief from the pain of labor.
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