Unit 4:

Birth: Bringing It All Together

  • Birth Preferences – the importance of open communication with your caregivers
  • Special circumstances
  • Membranes releasing
  • Questions to help you make good decisions
  • Birth companion as advocate
  • Your rights as a child bearing woman
  • Breech or posterior
    – Options & positions
  • Hypnosis for releasing fears
  • What to expect through labour and birth
  • When to call the midwife / go to the hospital
  • Birthing positions
  • The birth partner’s role
  • Cord clamping & placenta delivery
  • Undisturbed bonding/breastfeeding time – skin to skin
  • Hypnosis – Rehearsal for Birth
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