10/08/2020
🔴SIGNS TO KNOW YOU ARE IN TRUE LABOUR AND HOW TO STAY COMFORTABLE IN LABOUR!
These signs will help you to identify the onset of true labour.
✅When your baby drops, you'll experience a heavy feeling in your pelvis with pressure on your bladder, and you may feel the need to urinate more frequently.
✅A blood-tinged mucous discharge called show
✅A sudden spurt of energy.
✅If your waters break.
✅Regular contractions that you cannot talk through it.
💯Please, do the following:
🔆Apply your sanitary pad in case your water breaks or you see show then start heading to the hospital immediately.
🔆As you head out, don't forget this necessary items to take along in your small bag:
✔Hospital card
✔Nightingale
✔Lady Sept sanitary pad.
♻️As you get to the hospital and you are checked and confirm you to be in labour, you can now send for your luggage to be brought for you.
♻️You are going to be in labour for 16-18 hours as a first time mother(FTM).
♻️You are going to be in labour for 6-8 hours for subsequent pregnancies.
♻️You are going to be examined vaginally every 4 hours(please, take note).
♻️As you are in early phase of labour, please drink liquids to rehydrate you.
♻️Always empty your bladder often so your baby's head can descend more.
♻️Your cervix will dilate from 0-10 cm before your pumpkin is finally born.
♻️It is only two fingers (index and middle fingers) that is used to check for cervical dilation.
♻️Move around in the early phase (2cm-4cm)
♻️From 4cm cervical dilation, you have entered active phase when the process changes rythym.
♻️Don't shout but take a deep breath (inhale and exhale) once the contractions start.
♻️Obey instructions of your midwife or doctor to push or not to push.
♻️If you start pushing early, you could tear your cervix leading to excessive bleeding.
♻️Once you are asked to push, raise your head, bring both your head and your chin to your chest.
♻️Hold your two ankles firmly and *PUSH* as if you want to have the biggest BM (bowel movement) of your life.
♻️If contractions stops, you stop pushing and relax.
♻️Once your baby heads crown and pop out, the intensity of the pain is reduced because your baby is the passenger.
♻️Once your baby is born successfully, within 2-5minutes, your placenta is delivered.
♻️Please, put your baby to breast as soon as your baby is born.
♻️Above all, PRAY, tell God how you want it.
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