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Childbirth Choices

HPC 3O February 22 nd , 2013. Childbirth Choices. A Day in the Life of a Midwife. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf7q07gYSog. Prepared Childbirth.

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Childbirth Choices

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  1. HPC 3O February 22nd, 2013 Childbirth Choices

  2. A Day in the Life of a Midwife • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf7q07gYSog

  3. Prepared Childbirth An educational approach to laborand delivery in which the parents are specially prepared for the event. The aim is for the mother to be awake and cooperative and for the father to assume an active and supportive role during the birth of their child. Called also natural, educated, or cooperative childbirth.

  4. Prepared Childbirth • What do you learn in childbirth classes? -What happens during labor -What happens during delivery -Films of childbirth and reading material -Tour the maternity area of the hospital -Learning skills to cope with discomforts of labor -Mother joins with “coach”

  5. Who Will Deliver the Baby? • Obstetricians • Family doctors • Licensed midwives – nurse midwife vs. lay midwife

  6. Who Will Deliver the Baby? Parents should: • Find out how emergency calls will be handled at night • Which hospital or medical centre the doc is affiliated with • What programs and facilities the hospital has • Whether the doc has the same ideas about delivery procedures as they do

  7. Where Will the Baby be Born? • Used to be born @ home! • Today  usually hospitals • Hospitals offer the following services: -classes -special programs for young children -programs encourage fathers and other family members to help the mother -Birthing rooms -positions -Lights, music, etc;

  8. Alternative Birth Centre • Separate from the hospital, has homelike rooms for giving birth • Birthing aided by midwives • Most will only accept mothers with a low risk of delivery complications • Birth centers in Ontario

  9. Mini-Test Outline! • 10 Matching • 10 True/False • 15 Multiple Choice Questions

  10. Mini-Test Outline What to study? • The developing baby: prenatal • Problems in Prenatal development  birth defects & causes • Diagnosis of birth defects • Healthy Pregnancy  nutritional requirements, weight requirements, etc;

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