Labor has begun before the arrival of "first": what to do in an emergency

Pregnant women are very afraid of such a scenario, when labor begins according to plan, and all of a sudden! It would seem that the doctor selected exchange card signed, but you have planned birth in the day, but it turned out that her husband had gone to work

Preparing for childbirth

1. Always carry a card exchange, especially in the latter stages of pregnancy, after childbirth can begin anywhere: in a taxi, airplane, at a party, on the street.

2. Well, if you agree with your gynecologist in advance and you have his phone number, so you can always call your doctor. Stipulate your fears with a doctor, he's always good for you to meet.

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3. Listen to your body! Contractions may be training, it is not necessary to fly immediately to the hospital. If the time between contractions decreases, then you need to be hospitalized. Read about the precursor of sorts, visit courses for nulliparous mothers giving birth is not the first time will also be useful to listen to leading obstetricians.

4. If you are not the first birth, be prepared for what will go much faster in the right hospital. In repeated childbirth the uterus opens faster.

5. Bag to the hospital should be ready for a month before delivery and wait precursors in a safe place where you know and friends.

6. If you feel that you reach, and you were at home (or elsewhere!), And the contractions become more frequent 3-5 in 10 minutes, lasting 40 seconds, there is a sudden irresistible urge to push, confident steps should be taken while you wait for the arrival of the medical help.

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Instruction in emergency childbirth

1. Call an ambulance, ask the dispatcher to send a team of experts as soon as possible.

2. Open the doors to the medical staff may later be difficult for you to do it

3. If the husband is not at home, call your neighbors, relatives, friends

4. Phoned a doctor observing you, he may be able to call you to help

5. Wash your hands, perineum

6. Collect the sheets, blankets, towels, put by himself and leave for the child.

7. During fights, use of proper breathing techniques: take a deep breath - a long exhale. Lips parted thus, are not tense, eyes closed.

8. Take a comfortable position for yourself, be naked or in comfortable clothes without underwear. Move or stand on all fours, lie on your side, use the fitball, douches, music to facilitate labor.

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If you began a period of attempts

Attempts - is directly expulsion of the fetus from the uterus, the birth of the baby.

That is just the process of childbirth.

• When vain attempts you will feel a lot of pressure on the rectum. It is the desire to go in big. Breathe like a dog (short rapid breaths.
• Stay calm, your body knows what to do, kid, too hard!
• Spread polyethylene or a lot of disposable diapers on the couch or floor, take the most comfortable position.
• Squat to squat, lean back on a mountain of pillows or the edge of the low couch. We do not recommend a position lying on the back
• If a husband or a close relative, you can sit on the edge of the bed, feet rest against a partner who while sitting on a chair.
• When the head seems, keep your arms to the crotch, do not let your child get out too quickly.
• If you give birth sitting, gently crouch as low as possible, so that the child does not hit.
• If the umbilical cord is wrapped around the head, gently remove it, twist and do not cut yourself, leave this question to doctors.
• Pipsqueak slipped? Wipe the baby and lay on his stomach to warm their warmth.
• Let the partner will help clear the nose and eyes from the slime and you will be covered with a warm blanket.
• If a pipsqueak did not start to breathe and cried, rub his back, tap gently on the heel, breathed into him the cheek volume of air.
• Stay where you are until the placenta comes out.
• The baby may not be able to breast feed, because the length of the cord may not be enough to crumb reached.
• If you would still be able to give a few drops of colostrum before the arrival of doctors, it will be great! In the meantime, stimulate nipples.

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