Hypnobirthing North Yorkshire

09/10/2024

🤰👶 Birth preferences 🤰👶

Discussing your birth preferences with your midwife will help you understand your options during labour and birth, including the risks and benefits of each option.

It also gives your midwife the chance to get to know you better, and understand your feelings and priorities, and allows you to think about or discuss some things more fully with your partner, friends and relatives.

‼️ You can change your mind about your wishes for labour and birth at any time. ‼️

You may want to think about things like:
💗 who you want as your birth partner
💗 where you want to give birth
💗 what birthing positions you would like to try
💗 what type of pain relief you want
💗 how you would like to deliver your placenta
💗 whether you are hoping to breastfeed
💗 if you would like any special facilities, such as a birthing pool
💗 whether you want delayed cord clamping
💗 what your choices are about having skin-to-skin contact with your baby
💗 your feelings about potential interventions, such as an episiotomy, ventouse or forceps
💗 if you intend to use hypnobirthing techniques during labour
💗 how you feel about fetal monitoring during labour
💗 if you have any special needs, such as a sign language interpreter, or if you would like to follow any religious customs
💗 what name you would like to be called if it’s different to the one on your notes.

Your birth preferences are personal to you. It depends on what you want, your medical history, your circumstances and what is available at your maternity service.

Please see links for more information or message the Ask A Midwife Team today to find out more

16/07/2024

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Feeling down after England's Euros loss? Here are some tips to cope, inspired by hypnobirthing techniques:

Acknowledge Your Feelings: It’s okay to be upset. Talk about it, write it down, let it out.
Breathe: Deep, slow breaths can calm your mind.
Reframe: Focus on the journey and the moments of brilliance.
Visualise: Picture future successes and happier outcomes.
Seek Support: Connect with friends and family. Share your feelings.
Practice Gratitude: Appreciate the joy and excitement the tournament brought.
Read more in our latest Hippopedia blog here:
https://www.thewisehippo.com/the-hippopedia/coping-with-last-nights-disappointment/

02/07/2024

Have you thought about a homebirth? 🏡
Have you had a homebirth and like to share your experience?

Overall, within the UK giving birth is safe for both you and your baby. Whichever environment you choose to give birth the safety of both of you are our priority.

Research surrounding homebirths has found it is safe for healthy pregnancies with no complications between 37-42 weeks of gestation (term pregnancy).

For people who have had babies before it also found no change in birth outcomes for mother and baby between home birth and hospital.

Benefits of homebirth; increases chance of normal delivery, reduces intervention risk (assisted delivery and caesarean birth), more likely to know the midwife caring for you, be in your own home environment throughout birth and after creating a lovely oxytocin cocktail of hormones.

Pain relief is still available such as paracetamol, water, massage, tens machine and Entonox (gas and air).

If you are high risk and would like a homebirth, we would like to work with you and your consultant obstetrician to make a safe supportive plan of care.

Our team is supported by community midwives running a 24/7 model and service. There may be times where the service is suspended which may impact your homebirth. This may result in us advising you transfer to hospital for birth. We will always try to accommodate where possible to provide the care and birth plan you desire.

Ask a Midwife for more information, your place of birth matters 🏠

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