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- Medical Video: Labor and Delivery | Childbirth | Nucleus Health
- The first stage is normal delivery
- The second stage gives birth
- The third stage gives birth
Medical Video: Labor and Delivery | Childbirth | Nucleus Health
Normal childbirth is the dream of many mothers who are pregnant. However, for those of you who are pregnant with your first child, normal childbirth without a caesarean section may feel daunting. When the womb age is close to the time of labor, you and your surroundings will be prepared to wait for the contraction to occur as a sign of the arrival of the baby.
At the time of birth, the body naturally gives way to the baby born. The muscles around the exit of the baby stretch so that the baby can pass. The following are the stages that occur during normal childbirth.
The first stage is normal delivery
During pregnancy, the cervix (cervix or duct where the baby exits from the uterus to the vagina) is closed and filled with mucus to protect it from infection. In the first stage of labor, contractions make the cervix open gradually. The cervix begins to flex so that it can open and expand to 10 cm. This stage is the longest stage of labor. It can last for several hours even days before you go into labor.
The phase in which the cervix begins to open is called the latent phase. In the latent phase, you will feel contractions and sometimes not. In this phase you should eat and drink to prepare the energy that will be used during labor. If labor starts at night, you should be calm and stay relaxed. Use time to sleep if you can. And if the new labor starts at noon, try to stay active. Moving actively will help the baby go down the uterus and also help the cervix to widen.
The second stage gives birth
The second stage of labor takes place from the open cervix until your baby is born. You will push your baby until your vagina and baby will be born.
When the cervix is fully open, your baby will move to push his body to the birth canal to the vagina, where the baby is released at birth. You have to push to push your baby and this might feel like you want to defecate. You will feel pressure from your baby's head pushing his body. This makes you contract and wants to push. Feel your body and let the body push in response to the baby's push. Inhale between straining.
Your baby will move to push his body to the vagina. Sometimes it may be at the end of the contraction, your baby's journey to get out doesn't go smooth Don't be discouraged, as long as you feel your baby moving to push his body, you and your baby will be fine. Continue the struggle to push your baby and breathe in between to help your baby get out of your body. If this is your first time giving birth, this stage can last up to 3 hours. But if you have felt the birth before, this will take less than 2 hours.
When your baby's head has begun to touch the vagina, your doctor will look at the baby's head and ask you to stop pushing and breathing. This helps give the perineum muscle (the muscle between the vagina and anus) time to stretch, so you give birth slowly.
Sometimes, your doctor will do an episiotomy to speed up the course of the birth. An episiotomy is a small surgery in which the skin and perineal muscles are slashed to widen the vagina to make it easier for the baby to leave at birth. You will be injected locally so you don't feel the pain. After the baby is born, this incision will be sewn back.
The third stage gives birth
The third stage occurs after the baby is born, when the uterus contracts after childbirth and the placenta exits through the vagina. There are two ways in this third stage, namely the active way in which medical action is needed to speed up this process, and the second is the physiological way when this stage occurs naturally and you don't need action for this process.
In the active way, you will be injected to get the placenta out. This method helps to reduce blood loss, but causes side effects due to using drugs. You don't need to push because the drug will stimulate contractions and the doctor will pull the placenta out slowly.
In a natural way, you will contract again but contractions occur weaker because your uterus drops. The placenta will gradually separate from the uterine wall (uterine wall), and you will be pushed to push again. Then the placenta will come out through the vagina.
Hopefully after reading the explanation above you will no longer be afraid and worried about having a normal delivery if the time comes later.
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