During pregnancy if everything is all right you may wonder what is the proper method of giving birth, both for you and your baby. Of course it all depends on what happens in the last weeks, if the baby is seated properly and no other complications and so you have the freedom to choose how to give birth or if there are problems then you will be obliged to do cesarean.
If you could choose, here are the following:
Natural birth without drugs. You would be amazed to learn that one time when cesarean became a “fashion”, some women choose this birth, practiced in ancient times.
To have an easy birth is important to not look the birth as a time of stress and tension, but as something natural. If you choose to give birth without drugs, you can choose to born at home, aided by a nurse. Usually, nurses work in collaboration with an obstetrician, whom she can contact in case if complications arise.
Vaginal delivery with epidural anesthesia
This is the option that appeals to most women, because they can give birth naturally, but pain is reduced. This may include birth and labor challenge with synthetic hormones (birth induction), episiotomy (larger incision to the vaginal opening), the expulsion of the fetus with forceps or vacuum extractor.
Caesarean
In this case, the baby is born by a scheduled surgery or is the result of an emergency occurring during natural birth. This can be done under local anesthesia in this case you will be conscious during the entire period of surgery and you will see the baby soon after birth, or general anesthesia. Although caesarean section is preferred by many women, because it saves the pain of birth, it should not be seen easily, because it is a major surgery. Surgical operations are accompanied by risks such as infection and blood clots and you have to get recover from surgery in time to watch the newborn.
Underwater birth
There are clinics , which offers the option to give birth in water. This type of birth is also natural, which is often done without epidural. Water has a calming effect and such pain can be alleviated. The main benefit of water birth, for the child, is to avoid a shock, because he sees little daylight in an environment similar to that of maternal uterus.
Leboyer technique
French obstetrician Frederick Leboyer, author of “birth without violence”, thinks that babies should be treated more gently immediately after birth. Thus, it promotes the obscure lighting and noise reduction in the delivery room. His theory is that babies should not be subjected to unnecessary techniques like nasal suction or eye drops to clean the eyes with silver nitrate immediately after birth, but , to put the baby on his mother s abdomen to facilitate approximation. He believes that one should not cut the umbilical cord just 5 minutes after birth and then the baby should be put in warm water to ease the transition from womb to world.
Labor and birth should not be a violent process for the mother, but an event rich in spiritually and a fulfilled one. This approach refers to the improvement of hospital births, the fact that both mother and baby should be treated gently.