Optimizing Baby's Position: Tips for Easier Labour and Birth
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Optimizing Baby's Position: Tips for Easier Labour and Birth

Understanding your baby’s position during pregnancy is key to making labour and birth easier. This guide explores the different fetal positions, how they affect labour, and tips to encourage optimal positioning for a smoother, more comfortable delivery. Learn how to support your baby's ideal position for a better birth experience.

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Support Persons Role - it’s important.
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Support Persons Role - it’s important.

Supporting your partner through pregnancy is a very important job. Pregnancy and childbirth can be exhausting both physically and emotionally, so helping her in any way you can will benefit her, your relationship and ultimately your baby. Going to check-ups and antenatal classes are an important part in supporting your partner during pregnancy. Learn more….

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Natural Pain Relief - and your options.

Natural Pain Relief - and your options.

The topic of pain in labour and birth is a hotly debated subject around the coffee table and while pain in labour can't be entirely avoided (for most people), the fear of pain can be addressed and reduced. Taking good birth education classes, working with a trusted and supportive midwife, and having good continuous support from a partner, friend, or family member all can help greatly reduce your fear of pain in birth. It also helps to know a few things about labour pain.

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Pooping during labour?
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Pooping during labour?

A question I get asked frequently is ' will I poop during labour?' As your baby moves through the birth canal, your colon is squeezed like a tube of toothpaste. If your colon hasn’t emptied before labour began, the pressure of your baby moving down may also push out any poop left in the lower part of your colon. Read more….

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