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Grantly Dick-Read
In his book Childbirth Without Fear, first published in the 1940s, Dr. Grantly Dick-Read called the public’s attention to the principles of natural childbirth. His philosophy was to try to lessen and hopefully eliminate the fear and tension, and pain that resulted from these options, through proper education and emotional support.
The Grantly Dick-Read method taught women to deal with stress, but it highly emphasized the fact that knowledge relieves fear and prevents tension, which in turn controls pain.
To help do this, she developed courses of instruction that included breathing control and muscle relaxation exercises, information on what to expect in a normal situation, and what women can do to help themselves.
His method also taught the mother to seek support in the form of guidance, comfort, and sympathy. Grantly Dick-Read placed great emphasis on preparing for parenthood and childbirth itself.
Psychoprophylaxis
This involves training in breathing methods in preparation for labor. The techniques were pioneered in Russia and introduced in the West by Dr. Fernand Lamaze. The Lamaze method is by far the most popular in the United States and is the basis for teaching for the national Childbirth Trust in Great Britain.
Encourage the woman to take responsibility for herself, to associate with her peers, friends, and counselors. He highly values teamwork. The woman must prepare her body throughout the pregnancy with special exercises and has to train her mind to automatically respond to each type of contraction she will feel during labor.
Your partner acts as a coach and as emotional support. He is expected to attend the course with the expectant mother and to cooperate with her at home in conditioning exercises, and to train, persuade and comfort her during labor and delivery.
Leboyer’s philosophy
This is based on several basic precepts and relates more to the baby than to its mother and her progress during labor. Dr. Frederick Leboyer in his book Birth Without Violence states that the newborn baby feels everything, reflecting all the emotions that surround him – anger, anxiety, impatience and so on – and that the baby is extremely sensitive through his skin, his ears, his eyes. .
For this reason, he believes that all stimulation to the baby should be minimized with little light, few sounds, little handling and immersion in body heat water so that the baby’s entry into the world is so little different from his life in the world. uterus as possible.
In fact, this teaching is not entirely in line with the physiology of what happens at the time of the baby’s birth. It is contact with air at a temperature other than body temperature that causes the baby to take its first breath of air to initiate the crucial initial function of the lungs and causes the baby’s blood circulation to change from fetal to mature.
It is also not true to say that a baby’s hearing is so sensitive that it is disturbed by the noises around it. The sound of the uterine vessels inside the uterus is similar to that of a noisy vacuum cleaner. Leboyer also believes that the mother is an “enemy and a monster” to the child, leading and crushing him into the birth passage. He compares it to torture. Many women object to this view, as it minimizes and even diminishes the role of the mother.
Dr. Leboyer believes that the baby should not be touched by foreign materials but by human skin. The ideal place for the bay is to lie face down on the mother’s abdomen and cover it with the arms. This has been shown by experiments, not with Leboyer, that this is much more efficient in preventing the baby’s form from losing heat than ceiling heaters. Research has shown that a baby can remove mucus from its airways more efficiently when lying on its mother’s stomach than with a suction tube.
Leboyer suggests that the curtains and blinds in the delivery room be drawn and the lights dim. Some medical authorities object to this because they say that it is not possible to assess the baby’s condition in dim light.
Few centers practice the pure Leboyer method, but many hospitals and community midwives practice Leboyer-based delivery. Hospitals were slow to adopt Leboyer because research has shown that Leboyer babies do not appear to receive any additional benefits compared to others, although many ‘Leboyer mothers’ may feel that they do.
Dr. Michel Odent
A French physician named Michel Odent has advocated for placing the mother in a welcoming and homely environment, giving her complete freedom to act as she wishes and encouraging her to reach a new level of animal consciousness in which she forgets her inhibitions and returns to a state of quite primitive biological.
Dr. Odent believes that high levels of endorphins, the body’s natural narcotics, should be allowed to fully reign in the mother’s body. Logically, he argues that if a woman is given pain relievers and pain relievers, her endorphins are cut off, thus depriving her of the benefit of natural pain relief.
Dr. Odent’s clinic at Pithiviers in France, where he pioneered his natural childbirth techniques, became a center for those who wanted to change their minds and practices in childbirth.
Dr. Odent believes that during labor there should be music, soft furniture, and a relaxed atmosphere. A woman going into labor should be allowed to sit, walk, stand, eat and drink, and do whatever she wants. Women should not be interfered with in any way and they can take the position that is most comfortable for them at any stage of labor. Left to their own devices, many women get on all fours, which seems to ease the pain. Later in birth, many stand or crouch so that gravity can assist them, a natural practice practiced by most primitive tribes.
Odent encourages the supported squat where he, or the woman’s partner, stands behind her, takes her weight under the armpits and upper arms, and allows her to bend her knees and place her weight on the arm of your partner.
Dr. Odent believes that birthing pools, which he now uses for many home water births, should be viewed primarily as a means of pain relief. The delivery itself doesn’t need to be underwater, although Dr. Odent is very happy to take the baby into the bath water, if that’s what happens. There appears to be no evidence that an underwater birth is dangerous for the baby as long as the head is raised from the water immediately.
Dr. Odent’s methods have always had low rates of episiotomy, forceps, and caesarean section. The supported squat is what prevents serious perineal tears during labor. Because the mother has been in an upright position when the baby comes out, she remains seated upright with the cord still intact and the baby on her lap.
The baby immediately smells the mother’s skin and this is believed to be important for the baby when initiating breastfeeding. Within a few seconds, most mothers instinctively lift the baby and place it on the breast. No partner needs to be told to surround mother and baby with his own body and arms. Each one will do what comes naturally to them in these very personal moments.
Yoga-based methods
This is not just for those who already practice yoga. During childbirth, the woman must focus her consciousness on being totally in tune with what is happening to her. Through yogic methods, he is able to control his consciousness according to his capacity and tolerance, which is why he is sometimes able to distract himself from contractions and at other times, become totally involved in them. You can use meditation and chanting with the support of the spiritual participation of yoga groups.
Practitioners of yogic methods believe that a woman can handle childbirth in a mature and serene manner. Yogic childbirth education helps to believe that a woman has the ability to create or destroy her own pain and joy during childbirth.