Joint or partner births are births, in which, besides the woman herself, any of her relatives or friends can be present. More often than not, a woman takes her future child father with her, more rarely a mother, sister or girlfriend. The main role of the partner at birth is the psychological and physical support of the woman.
Joint childbirth with her husband - for and against
An important condition for successful partner births with the husband is his desire to be present and to help the future mother in the birth of the heir. Many men are afraid of childbirth, the type of blood and the fact that they will not be able to provide all possible help to their beloved woman. To do this, you should attend classes of the school of conscious parenting, where they will tell you how to behave properly during childbirth (breathing and pushing ), as well as about non-drug methods of anesthesia (psychological mood, gymnastics in childbirth and lumbar massage). If the woman has decided to go on partner birth with her mother, then she will not have to study the rules of behavior in the delivery room, because her mother already has experience.
In fact, the father will be able to help in the delivery room only in the first period of childbirth, which the woman spends actively. She should be helped to move around the maternity hall, perform exercises of gymnastics (squat at the gymnastic wall and jump on fitbole ). When the contractions become sufficiently strong and painful, then as a good anesthetic will serve as a massage of the waist, which will relieve muscle tension and allow the woman a little distracted from the pain. During the massage the woman in childbirth should be in a vertical position, leaning slightly forward and resting her hands on a hard surface (chair, bed, gymnastic wall). And the main is the psychological support of the woman in childbirth.
What should a partner have with him to the maternity hospital?
Now consider what things and documents need to have with a person who will participate in partner births. First, the result of fluorography, made not later than 6 months before childbirth. Analyzes for joint delivery include sowing from the nose and throat on staphylococcus, the result of an HIV test and syphilis. Secondly, change clothes and shoes. And, thirdly, all the necessary skills to facilitate labor activity, which were told about in special courses.
Having become acquainted with the peculiarities of joint births, I want to sum up that a partner at birth should not be an observer. He must actively participate in the process of giving birth: to provide psychological support, to help a woman relax between contractions, and then the birth will pass smoothly and easily.