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- Medical Video: Cesarean Sections (C-Sections): When They are Needed, How to Prevent Them (Q&A)
- 1. Choose a doctor who has the same vision as you
- 2. Do regular exercise during pregnancy
- 3. Take classes in pregnant women
- 4. Avoid labor induction
- 5. Active during labor
- 6. Believe in your body
Medical Video: Cesarean Sections (C-Sections): When They are Needed, How to Prevent Them (Q&A)
There are two ways you can choose to give birth to your baby, namely normal and caesarean. Some mothers may be afraid of illness during normal childbirth, so choose to have a caesarean delivery. However, some others want to give birth normally for various reasons. Indeed, caesarean delivery causes less pain than normal delivery. But, the risks and complications you get from a caesarean delivery can be more than normal birth. You can also feel pain longer after giving birth to a cesarean than normal. For this reason, you should avoid caesarean section as much as possible.
The following are tips that you can do to avoid caesarean section:
1. Choose a doctor who has the same vision as you
This is very important. When you are declared pregnant, the first thing you should choose is the obstetrician who suits you. This obstetrician will treat you from the beginning of your pregnancy until your baby is born. If you want to give birth normally, try to choose an obstetrician who rarely performs cesarean delivery. Talk to your doctor from the start that you want to give birth in the normal way. That way, your doctor will continue to monitor your condition and seek a normal birth for you.
2. Do regular exercise during pregnancy
Exercise regularly and make your body actively active can help you prevent cesarean birth. Regular exercise during pregnancy can also help your body undergo normal childbirth easily. Research has also proven that exercise during pregnancy tends to make the possibility of having a caesarean delivery smaller.
Research published by the British Journal of Sports Medicine shows that the group of pregnant women who exercise have a smaller chance of having a caesarean birth and tend to have babies weighing less than 4 kg. The group of pregnant women exercises for 55 minutes every 3 times a week during the last 6 months of pregnancy.
In doing sports, you also need to know your body's capacity. Don't force yourself if you are not able to do strenuous exercise. Enough to do mild to moderate exercise during pregnancy. This has been able to help you prevent caesarean birth. Start by walking for 10 minutes. If you are used to it, you can add capacity. You can also try swimming or yoga.
3. Take classes in pregnant women
In the class of pregnant women, you will usually be taught how and what to do during a normal delivery. That way, you already know what will happen and what you have to do during a normal delivery. This can increase your confidence that you can give birth normally. In addition, you will also be taught that giving birth is a natural process, in which the body will respond to it very well.
If you feel less knowledge about the birth process, you can learn it yourself through books or on the internet. In this day and age, you can easily get that knowledge. However, choose a source of quality information or information.
4. Avoid labor induction
In some cases, induction of labor is indeed needed, for example in pregnant women with preeclampsia. However, if you don't have a condition that requires induction of labor,labor induction (with medication) precisely can increase your risk of getting emergency caesarean section, especially for mothers who have given birth for the first time. In fact, there have been many studies that have proven that the chances of having a caesarean birth are doubled in new mothers (first time giving birth) who get labor induction compared to mothers who are not induced. In some women, labor induction fails, so the only option is to have a caesarean section.So, if you have no complications during pregnancy that require pregnancy induction, you should avoid making labor induction the first choice.
5. Active during labor
Try to be active during labor. This helps you avoid caesarean section. Lying while waiting for your body to be ready to give birth will only make you feel worse and increase your risk of caesarean section. So, what you need to do while waiting is to walk or sit in an upright position. This is proven to reduce the duration of labor and also the risk of caesarean delivery. When your body is in an upright position, you help your baby to go down to your pelvis. So that the normal childbirth process can run easier.
6. Believe in your body
Your body has more power than you can imagine. Don't always imagine being sick when you want to give birth normally. Normal childbirth is a wonderful experience. Don't be affected by the scary stories that are out there. Believe me, you can do it. Normal childbirth has been used as a method of giving birth from a long time ago. So, it is very possible for all women to be able to give birth normally. Look for support from the people closest to you, this can help reduce your fear.
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