Test 5 Andy's Wife's Remarks

Question 1

Epidural rate cache valley

Answer 1

98%

Question 2

Pain in labor comes from:

Answer 2

The cervix opening up

Question 3

How large must the cervix open to?

Answer 3

10 cm

Question 4

When does the pain stop?

Answer 4

Once the cervix is fully dilated, and the babies head is out, the pushing is much easier

Question 5

What is the key to fascilitating labor?

Answer 5

Being aware of the babies position relative to the cervix

Question 6

What is the key to facilitating labor?

Answer 6

Being aware of the babies position relative to the cervix

Question 7

Pelvis, adjustments for birth:

Answer 7

can open an additional 25%
Sacrum can shift out of the way
Joints of pelvis are softened

Question 8

What is the largest part of the babies body?

Answer 8

The babies head.

Question 9

How much does baby head size vary?

Answer 9

Not that much

Question 10

What makes labor difficult?

Answer 10

Improper positioning of the baby

Question 11

What helps the baby position itself?

Answer 11

Gravity pushes the babies head to center (only if the mother is perpendicular to the ground)

Question 12

What helps the baby position itself?

Answer 12

Gravity pushes the babies head to center (only if the mother is perpendicular to the ground)
It also pushes the babies chin down

Question 13

What difficulties arise from lying on the back?

Answer 13

The babies head does not center over the cervix (because gravity cannot pull it straight down)
The babies head only applies pressure to one side of the cervix
The cervix is twisted, which causes pain

Question 14

The best position for child birth?

Answer 14

mother is perpendicular to the ground

Question 15

When do you check progress?

Answer 15

Between contractions

Question 16

• Bladder effect on the positioning of the baby?

- How often should the bladder be emptied?

Answer 16

• Full bladder will push the baby away from the cervix (making contractions ineffectual)
• 30 - 45 minutes

Question 17

What are the advantages of going to restroom?

Answer 17

Upright positioning
Walking allows the baby to position itself
The toilet provides an upright position

Question 18

When the bag of water is intact, what does it do for you?

Answer 18

• It helps to push on the cervix, as the water can position itself to push on the cervix more
• It does increase pain by 50%
• Vitamin C helps to make strong bags of water

Question 19

When should the bag of water be broken?

Answer 19

When the baby is being positioned

Question 20

Things that help with birth:

Answer 20

• Just let the birth happen when it does, even if it takes longer than the due date
• Upright
• Emptying bladder
• Not breaking bag

Question 21

Endorphins:

• Effect:
• Increase during pregnancy:
• Increase before labor:

Answer 21

- Effect:
act as a pain killer
- Increase during pregnancy:
10x as high during pregnancy
- Increase before labor:
As much as 100x as high right before labor

Question 22

Adrenaline production right before birth?

Answer 22

Increased adrenal production, increased energy a few days before birth
- Cries when the energy level drops

Question 23

Signs that birth is about happen?

Answer 23

Increased pooping
Increased energy (from increased adrenal production)

Question 24

Effect of putting a woman in a tub of water?

- When should a woman be placed there?

Answer 24

Note: birth doesn’t have to occur in the tub
Decreases pain by 50%
later stages of labor which hurt more

Question 25

Why would you not want an epidural?

Answer 25

Numb from waste down
- Cannot get up and walk
Epidural slows the birth

Question 26

• What happens when the baby get’s low enough in the vagina?

- How does epidural interfere with this?

Answer 26

• What happens when the baby get’s low enough in the vagina?
  It pushes on the nerve which tells you that you want to poop, causing the mother to bare down
• How does epidural interfere with this?
  It stops being able to feel the nerve

Question 27

Attachment process for humans in babies:

Answer 27

up to three hours after the birth, 1 hour is the most intense.
Endorphins and adrenaline help with this bonding
It is necessary in the same way as animal bonding is necessary

Question 28

Epidural issues effect on endorphins and bonding:

Answer 28

Decreases the amount of bonding because it lowers endorphin levels

Question 29

Nutrients important for labor

Answer 29

Magnesium
Iron (body needs high myoglobin to sustain contractions)
Vitamin E (antioxidant, helps with cellular uptake of oxygen)

Question 30

Why do you not eat dark greens and leaves raw (not cooked)?

- What can stop this?

Answer 30

A molecule, oxalic acid, which binds to ions (iron and magnesium) which binds them up in the blood, cleared by urine, only a problem if taken daily
- What can stop this?
Steam the leaf

Question 31

Toxemia late in pregnancy and PMS results from what?

Answer 31

Low magnesium

Question 32

Baby having hiccups in utero is a sign of what?

Answer 32

Low magnesium

Question 33

Robust iron levels effect birth how?

Answer 33

The uterus has high endurance, due to high myoglobin and better delivery from hemoglobin

Question 34

• Ways to boost iron?

- Ways to boost vitamin E?

Answer 34

• Ways to boost iron?

- Ways to boost vitamin E?

Question 35

Many midwives will rub vitamin E extract on babies, which causes what effect?
- What is an alternative explanation:

Answer 35

Blue skin reds, could be increased oxygenation, could be inflammation

Question 36

Eating in labor:

Answer 36

It is usually a good idea to eat before labor, because you need energy and nutrition if it goes on for a long time
- Energy is needed for the contractions to be effectual

Question 37

Do people actually need to squat?

Answer 37

Debatable, approximate the squat because most women do not have the musculature to squat because we do not do it in the first world

Question 38

Is birth feasible?

Answer 38

Yes, it can just happen