9 TIPS AND TRICKS TO ACCOMPLISH A NATURAL LABOR.

Hello, my beloved readers!!!

On the Last Post I talked about my natural labor story, today I want to talk about the tips and trick I

followed and I came up with to have a successful Non medicated natural labor.

Disclaimer: this tips are for a normal pregnancy and deliver, you have to have ALWAYS in mind that

sometime thing don't happen the way we want it and the MOST IMPORTANT THING IS YOUR BABY´S

HEALTH AND WELL BEING!!!

In order to accomplish this task you must prepare yourself mentally and phisically, here is how I did it:

MENTALLY

1) Make your decision regardless of what anybody says.

Sometime making the decision of having a natural none medicated labor it’s hard and some people will

tell you that you are crazy and that it’s old fashioned and even archaic. But this is a personal decision

that only effects you and you have the right to make it and be respected.

2) Embrace the fear, because you will feel it.

Fear is a natural response to the unknown. I have to be honest, I had fear of how much I could hurt but

I always thought if any woman’s body is especially build to give birth is because somehow we are also

build to manage the pain and all the hustle that comes with it.

My take on this matter was besides of that mindset was:  the last month or so I began watching videos

on youtube of natural births, I wanted to know the most I could about what I was facing, I paid close

attention to positions to deal with the pain, the best ways to give birth and successful delivery stories,

I wanted to feel confident and in charge of my body and my decision.

This allowed me to think that no matter how much was going on, I was expecting more even when it

was the end and I was ready to push.

3) You are going to do everything right even when you don’t know what to do.

Giving birth is a total connection with your body and your root as ”animal” if you just stop listening to

other people say and start listening to what you feel and your body’s needs you are going to be ready

to give birth to this baby the best way you can.

4) Consider the fact that something could go wrong.

Sometimes because of reasons out of our control a natural birth it’s not possible. Let the professionals

take control of what is best for you and your baby.  That is the most important thing that should be on

your mind.

PHYSICALLY

5) Take walks and swim.

For me, swimming was impossible because it was winter time when I was pregnant but I did take long

walks and it was great. They helped me position the baby in the birth canal and helped me not gaining

too much weight.

6) Get a pilates ball.

I remember having a lot of sciatica pains and not being able to sit or stand for long periods of time.

Sitting in a pilates ball made me feel better about this pains and with exercises in that same ball,

helped me to open up my hips and also position the baby’s head.

During labor sitting in the ball release the pressure in the perineum during contractions and allowed

me to move to handle the pain.

7) have sex.

Even better if you are a first-time mom, prostaglandins present in semen are a group of physiologically

active lipid compounds having diverse hormone-like effects in your body. They help you induce labor  

if you are past your due date and the sex is also relaxing for you and the baby.

8) Sit on the toilet.

For me sitting on the toilet was the clue to the success of my active labor. I cannot tell you how much

I could handle the pain by sitting on the toilet, I think I was there for more than two hours and I just

stand up from there because I was expecting the pain to go higher and I didn’t want to waste this card

on the earlier stages of the labor. But apparently, I was in active labor while sitting there and it helped

me a lot. Totally recommend it!

9) Move!

While in labor there was a moment that I ly in bed because I felt tire, Worst idea ever! That was the

moment when I felt the most pain and It was unbearable. Move while you have the contraction, walk,

dance or wiggle if you feel like it.

This tips and tricks I put them in your hands they assured me a natural delivery without medication.

Some of them I got them from the obstetric nurse, some of them from the youtube videos I watched

and some I came up with as a result of my experience. I hope this has being useful and I hope you

have in mind that a natural birth leads to a successful breastfeeding and a proper bonding between

you and your baby.

As always, I hope to read your comments about this subject,  they are always so useful to me and

others, down below I leave you an infographics with exercises to relieve sciatica pain with the pilates

ball.

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DANDO A LUZ, MI HISTORIA

Hola mi queridas lectoras!

Hoy quiero hablarles sobre la historia de mi parto, pero, antes de empezar quiero decirles que mi parto fue natural sin medicación, que estaba de 39 semanas y media y también que fue mi primer bebé. ¿Quieres saber como lo logre? Sigue leyendo...

... Mi bebé Leonor nació un Miércoles, 10 de Junio de 2015, a las 1:38 a.m.

No estoy segura de cuando empezaron las contracciones porque estaba durmiendo en el momento, pero recuerdo que en mis sueños sentía algunos dolores de estomago y malestar típicos del avanzado estado de embarazo en el que me encontraba. desperté a eso de las 6:30 a.m. el Martes en la mañana aun con algo de dolor y seguí las recomendaciones de mi enfermera acerca de intentar quitarme las contracciones, así que fuí a orinar. Luego me dirigí a la cocina por un tentempie (Yogurt y galletas) y algo de agua, después de comerlo todo, fuí de vuelta al baño porque aún sentía dolor estomacal e hice del vientre, pensando que los dolores estomacales fueran por daño estomacal y no contracciones, volví a la cama y dormí por otras tres horas.

Desperté de nuevo a las 10:30 a.m. y como aún sentía los calambres, fuí donde mi madre que estaba visitando en el momento por el  nacimiento de la bebé y le describí el dolor. Ella me dijo que estaba muy segura de que esos dolores eran contracciones y que deberíamos empezar a contar para saber cada cuanto estaban. En ese momento estaban cada 40 minutos.

A eso de las 2:00 p.m. las contracciones eran mas definidas y estaban cada 20 minutos aparte una de la otra y empece a sentirme ansiosa acerca de la efectividad de las contracciones y si estaba dilatando o si era solo un parto falso. A las 5:30 p.m. me estaba volviendo loca por saber cuanto había avanzado así que fuimos al hospital. Mi esposo y yo queríamos parto natural, estudiamos las posibilidades y decidimos tenerlo en agua, pero el único hospital que tenía esa opción estaba a 50 minutos de casa. Así que fuimos con todo lo necesario para traer a nuestra bebé a casa. En camino al hospital, empecé a sentir más y más dolor y las contracciones empezaron a ser más inconsistentes. Para cuando llegamos al hospital, estaba bastante incomoda y pense que estaría avanzada en el parto, pero solo tenía 2 c.m. De dilatacion y nos enviaron de nuevo a casa con algunos tips para manejar el dolor y el enfermero nos dijo que no volvieramos a menos de que tuviera contracciones muy seguidas, tuviera sangrado, hubiera expulsado el tapón mucoso o estuviera expulsando liquido amniotico. Volvimos a casa a las 8:00 p.m.

La vuelta a casa fue bastante incomoda, pues la posicion y tan pronto llegue a casa me fuí a acostar porque me sentí exhausta pero el dolor se intensificó 10 veces más, así que fuí a la bañera y tomé un baño. Las contracciones se intensificaron para las 9:30 p.m. y la presión que sentía era algo parecia a unas urgentes ganas de defecar, así que decidí sentarme en el sanitario para ver si eran ganas y la sensación se iba. No se fué pero me ayudó a lidiar con el dolor y la presión se redució considerablemente. Mi esposo estuvo sentado al lado mio todo el tiempo monitoreando las contracciones para saber cada cuanto estaba l una de la otra y cuanto duraban.

Me senté ahí por más de una horay cada vez que venia una contracción, movía mis caderas como bailando para manejar el dolor. Después de un rato, mi esposo me dijo que debería levantarme y hacer algo más como caminar y dejar esta opción que era la mas manejable para cuando el dolor fuera peor para encontrar un mejor manejo del dolor en ese momento. Tan pronto como me levante me di cuenta de que el tapon mucoso se habia desprendido. Camine alrededor de la casa y con cada contracción me apoyaba en mi esposo y movía mis caderas para liberar e dolor pero despues de un tiempo las contracciones venian con una terrible urgencia de pujar. Estaba muy preocupada porque pensaba que estaba muy temprano en la labor de parto para querer pujar pero se estaba volviendo en algo incontrolable. Así que decidí ir al hospital más cercano disponible.

Llegamos al hospital a las 12:40 a.m. y fué casi imposible para mi salir del carro, mi esposo y un enfermero tuvieron que ayudarme a salir y me sentaron en una silla de ruedas para llevarme a la sala de triage. Ahí estaba otro enfermero que empezó a preguntarme acerca de mi estado como:

Esta sangrando? Ya ha expulsado el tapón mucoso? Cada cuanto estan las contracciones? Y la última y la peor de todas fué: Que le hace pensar a usted que esta a punto de parir?

Me sentía cansada, incomoda, con dolor y por demás INSULTADA! Así que le grite al hombre que QUERÍA PUJAR! Tan duro que el pobre no tuvo más remedio que enviarme al departamento de obstetricia de inmediato. Cuando llegue allá estaba con tanto dolor que estaba lista para preguntar  por la anestesia epidural. Cuatro Matronas me recibieron en la entrada, ella fueron increiblemente amables conmigo, me llevaron a la camilla obstetrica para hacerme un tacto y saber que tan dilatada estaba. La gran sorpresa es que estaba de 10 c.m. Y lista para dara luz a mi bebé. Le pregunte a una de ella si ya podia pujar y cuando me dijeron que si, puje y rompí fuente ahí mismo. En ese momento sentí un alivio inmenso, me sentí de nuevo fuerte y  en control de mi cuerpo. 

Las Matronas me llevaron a una sala de parto, tuve una contracción en el camino pero poder pujar, fué la mejor manera de manejar el dolor. Cuado llegamos a la sala, me pusieron una bata del hospital y me pare enfrente de la cama. Cuando vino la siguiente contracción, puje de nuevo y al salir de ella, sentí la necesidad de arrodillarme en la cama, así que salté y perdí la bata en la maniobra. Para cuando la siguiente contracción vino estaba lista en posición para pujar en una posición cómoda. Para hacer esta increible historia corta, despues de unas pocas contracciones, sentñi un dolor ardoroso abajo por un segundo, era su pequeña cabeza saliendo y el resto salio sin dificultad. Las Matronas la recibieron y me la pasaron por debajo para poder sentarme en mi espalda y descansar.

La bebé estaba llorando, estaba calentita y activa, era perfecta!

Para mi, tener un parto natural ha sido la experiencia mas maravillosa y poderosa de toda mi vida. Dolió? Por supuesto! Pero creo que es un pequeño precio a pagar por recibir el mejor regalo de la vida. Espero que te haya gustado. Porfavor deja un comentario si quieres compartir tu historia o preguntarme algo. Me encanta leer sus comentarios. En próximos posts estaré hablando de tips y trucos que usé para lidiar con el dolor.

GIVING BIRTH, MY STORY.

Hello my beloved readers!!!

Today I want to talk to you about my baby´s delivery story. before all that, I want to tell you that I had a natural non medicated delivery I was 39 weeks along and also that this was my first baby. Do you want to know how I accomplished? keep on reading...

Baby Leonor was borne on a Wednesday, June 10, 2015, at 1:38 a.m. I’m not sure when the contractions began because I was sleeping at the moment, but I remember in my dreams I felt some stomach cramps and discomfort usually normal for that advance pregnancy stage. So I woke up at 6:30 a.m.  Tuesday morning still in some pain and followed my nurse’s advice about trying to get rid of the contraction and went to pee. Then I headed to the kitchen for a little snack (yogurt and crackers) and some water. After I eat it all, I went back to the bathroom because I still felt some stomach pain and poop just in case I was having a stomach ache and not a contraction, went back to bed and slept for another 3 hours. 

I woke up again at 10:30 a.m. And as I was feeling the same cramps, I went to my mom as she was visiting for the baby’s birth and describe her the pain. She told me that she was pretty sure that kind of pain was a contraction and that we had to start counting to know how much further apart one contraction was from the other. That was 40 minutes apart in that moment.

By 2:00 P.m. The contractions were more defined and they were 20 minutes apart from one another and I started feeling anxious about how effective these contractions were on dilating or if this were just false labor. At 5:30 I was driving crazy about knowing how good I was, so we went to the hospital. My husband and I wanted to have an all natural labor, we studied our options and decided to have our baby in water but the only hospital that provided that option was 50 minutes away from our home. So we went with everything we needed to stay comfortable at the hospital and to bring our baby home. On our way to the hospital, I started having more painful contractions that were uneven. By the time we got there, I was pretty sure I was very far along in labor but I was only 2 c.m. Dilated and We were sent back home with some tips on handling pain and the nurse told me that we only had to go back either when I had already expulsed the mucous plug, bleeding or when the water has broken. We got home at 8 P.M.

The ride was very difficult because of the sitting position and as soon I got home I went to bed because I felt exhausted but the pain felt 10 times worse so I took a bath in the tub. The contractions intensified by 9:30 P.m. And the pressure I felt was like having an urge to go poop so I decided to sit on the toilet to see if the sensation was going to go away. It didn't go away but it helps me to deal with the pain and the pressure reduce considerably. My husband is sitting next to me counting the contractions and keeping a record of them to know how much further apart were one from another. 

I sat there for more than an hour and every time a contraction came, I moved my hips like I was dancing to manage the pain. After a while, my Husband told me I should get up and do something else like walk and leave the toilette again for the last stage, so I could find better release for that moment. As soon as I got up, I realize the mucous plug has come off. I walked around the house and with every contraction, I leaned over my husband and move my hips all over to release the pain. After a while at the end of every contraction, came a terrible urge to push. I was so worried because I thought it was too soon for that, but it was getting worse and it was uncontrollable. So I decided to go to the nearest hospital available. 

We got to the hospital by 12:40 a.m. It was almost impossible for me to come out of the car, my husband an a guy nurse helped out me and sat me down in a wheelchair to get me to the triage room. Another guy nurse ask me a few questions about my labor stage such as: are you bleeding? Or has the mucous plug already come out? How far along one contraction was from another? And the last one and worst one was: what makes you think that you are about to give birth? 

I felt tired, uncomfortable, in pain and for the most part INSULTED! I shouted at the man that I WANTED TO PUSH RIGHT NOW! so hard that the poor man was pale and referred me to the obstetrics department right away. When I got there I was in so much pain, I was ready to ask for some pain relief shuts! 4 ”matrons” receive me at the door, they were so gentle and nice to me, lead me to an Obstetrics room to check how dilated I was. The big surprise was that I was fully dilated and ready to give birth to my baby girl. I asked one of the ladies if I could push already and she said yes, so I did, and broke my water right there. At that moment life came back to my body! I felt awaken and strong again, so in control of my body. 

The matrons headed me walking to the delivery room, I had one contraction on the way but, being able to push that out was the best way to deal with it. When we got to the delivery room, they put me in a hospital rope an I stand in front of the bed. When I could push my way out of the next contraction, I had such a need to get on the bed and on my knees and I lost my rope in the maneuver. By the time the next contraction came, I was ready to push from a comfortable position. To make this amazing story short after a few pushes I felt this burning pain down there for just a second, it was her little head coming out and the rest came behind so easily.  The matrons passed my baby from behind so I could grab her and finally sit in my back and rest. 

She was crying, she was warm and responsive, she was perfect!

For me, having a natural birth has been the most amazing and empowering experience of all my life.  Did it hurt? Of course, it did! But I think is a little price you pay when you are about to receive the biggest gift of your life. I hope you liked it. Please comment if you want to share your story or ask me any questions, I would love to hear from you. In upcoming posts, I will be talking about the tips and tricks I used for handling pain.