Childbirth is a difficult process for which a woman needs to prepare. It should be ready both physically and psychologically. Becoming a mother is a very strong emotional surge, and positive emotions help a woman cope with the stress that she received during labor. Knowledge of the information, how the process of childbirth passes, will help to feel more confident. It is also important to own your body, listen to it and follow the recommendations of specialists.
For the best course of the birth process in the organism of the future mother, the hormone oxytocin is intensively produced. It also contributes to the production of milk. Oxytocin is also produced during orgasm. Perhaps that is why he received the name of the hormone "pleasure" and the hormone "happiness."
Physiological course of childbirth
In order to determine the beginning of birth, you need to listen to your body and observe the changes in your appearance. Two to four weeks before childbirth, the baby's head falls down, closer to the birth canal of a woman. After that, it becomes easier for a pregnant woman to breathe, because the pressure on her mother's chest stops.
Emotional mood closer to childbirth is saturated with energy. On the eve of childbirth, future mothers begin to clean the house, collect the necessary trifles in the maternity ward (the basic kits in the maternity hospital should be collected from the beginning of the third trimester ).
When there are pulling pains in the abdomen, you need to concentrate, perhaps this is the first call about the beginning of the forthcoming birth. When the beginning of fights was determined, it is necessary to detect breaks between them. Reduction of the uterus with a frequency of four to five minutes is an occasion to go to the hospital. In this case, you can go off cork (mucus discharge) and amniotic fluid .
The clinical course of labor provides for a change in the functional activity of almost all the organs of the parturient woman. The most pronounced changes occur in the uterus, respiration and metabolism. The process of labor increases the burden on the cardiovascular system. In order to regulate the body's processes, the heart rate increases and reaches a rate of ninety-one beats per minute. This is especially evident during the period of exile.
The fluctuation of blood pressure reaches its maximum values during attempts, but in pauses between them it returns to normal. During the period of exile, the increase in blood pressure fluctuates by five to fifteen mm of mercury. This fluctuation does not affect blood circulation in the intervillaceous space.
The most pronounced jumps in hemodynamics are observed in the succession period. After the birth of the child, intra-abdominal pressure drops sharply, and the vessels of the abdominal cavity are densely filled with blood. As a consequence, the flow of blood to the heart decreases. Because of this redistribution of blood in the body, compensatory tachycardia occurs. In healthy women, the work of the circulatory system is restored quickly.
How long does the delivery take place?
How many are delivered depends on the individual characteristics of the maternity. In most cases, the second and all subsequent births are faster than the first. The first birth can last up to eighteen hours, and the birth of not firstborns - up to fourteen.
How are birth in the hospital?
Today, the maternity hospitals offer many different positions for delivery: standing, half sitting, on their sides and horizontally. Each of the positions has its pros and cons. For example, the birth of the standing is easier due to the additional action of the force of attraction. But the doctor in this situation is difficult to track the passage of the baby on the birth canal,
What to do if the delivery period has passed?
Normal delivery is from the thirty-eighth to the forty-second week. If you did not give birth on the estimated date, then until the forty-second week, you should visit your doctor every week. After the forty-second week, the expectant mother is placed in a hospital and if the birth does not begin by the end of the expected period, the stimulation of labor is beginning.