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Preparation Before Labor
Published in Vincenzo Berghella, Obstetric Evidence Based Guidelines, 2022
Daniele Di Mascio, Leen Al-Hafez
Compared to no such education, antenatal education focusing on natural childbirth preparation with training in breathing and relaxation techniques is not associated with any effects on maternal or perinatal outcomes, including similar incidences of epidural analgesia, childbirth, or parental stress, in nulliparous women and their partners [7].
Struggle between providers and recipients: the case of birth practices
Published in Ellen Lewin, Virginia Olesen, Women, Health, and Healing, 2022
The natural childbirth movement in North America is about forty years old, becoming more widespread during the past ten years.9 Physicians' responses to different types of natural (prepared) childbirth have been mixed. Conflicts frequently arise between doctors and patients when a woman wants a nonmedicated birth. The concept seems to run counter to everything a doctor knows or has seen regarding potential pathology and problems, and a woman's ability to cope with labor. If a woman is seriously motivated, it places a strain on the conventional doctor-patient relationship. Doctors are taken aback by expressions of doubts about their expertise (Romalis 1981b). The special relationship between husband and wife planning a nonmedicated birth also confounds the doctor. He sees this as interfering with his own special communication with the woman and altering the more traditional (if tacit) agreement between doctor and husband to "take care of the little woman'' (Romalis 1981). The response on the part of the doctor is therefore defensiveness, annoyance, and impatience, resulting not infrequently in belittlement of the woman and her (feminized) husband. Moreover, if the obstetric relationship is very strained, more actively aggressive responses may emerge like "the works" (e.g. induction, sections) for the "know-it-alls," serving as reminder of "ho is boss."10
Education and support for home birth
Published in Mary L. Nolan, Parent Education for the Critical 1000 Days, 2020
While birth has never been safer in the advanced economies of the world, this is not reflected in a concomitant confidence in women’s ability to give birth without medical intervention. Indeed, there remains a strong conviction amongst women and many health professionals that birth is as safe as it is because it takes place in hospital and because it is frequently subjected to medical intervention. Even among birth activists, labour is seen as requiring at least the minimal intervention of ‘support’: Vocabulary that emerged during the second half of the twentieth century has reinforced our cultural conditioning. Among groups promoting ‘natural childbirth’, certain terms became popular. A ‘coach’ is a guide bringing her (his) expertise. The need for ‘emotional support’ implies that to give birth, a woman needs some energy brought by somebody else. In the medical literature, the term ‘labour management’ is widely used. The terms ‘coaching’ and ‘management’ express the same way of thinking.(Odent 2015:10–11)
Psychometric properties of the birth satisfaction scale-revised (BSS-R) in a sample of postpartum Iranian women
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2021
Forough Mortazavi, Maryam Mehrabadi, Caroline J. Hollins Martin, Colin R. Martin
Childbirth is one of the most significant medical events in a woman’s life. One of the main roles of childbirth care providers is to help women to have a pleasant birth experience. A recent study in Chili indicates that patient-provider interaction during labor and the physical environment are the most important predictors of maternal birth satisfaction (Pantoja et al., 2020). According to the literature, childbirth dissatisfaction with normal delivery or cesarean section reduces the likelihood of subsequent pregnancies (Rashidian et al., 2019). Another negative consequence of dissatisfaction with natural childbirth is increased maternal tendency toward cesarean section and increased likelihood of both emergency and elective cesarean section (Johnson & Slade, 2002).
The effects of interferential electrical stimulation current on labor pain and duration of active phase of labor in primiparous women: A randomized controlled trial
Published in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2023
Sahar Pak, Fariba Ghaderi, Abbas Soltani Somee, Mojgan Mirghafourvand, Mahin Kamalifard, Mahsa Maghalian
This study showed the effectiveness of the use of electrical stimulation of the interferential type during labor to reduce pain and active phase duration, which can be valuable in improving the quality of postpartum care and encouraging natural childbirth. Other important outcomes of this study were the absence of any maternal or fetal side effects by assessing a wide range of symptoms including the number of neonates transferred to the NICU, FHR monitoring, and maternal blood pressure in the active phase, postpartum hemorrhage, or the number and timing of uterine contractions in the active phase. So interferential electrical stimulation could be used for labor pain.
What Is So Appealing About Being Spanked, Flogged, Dominated, or Restrained? Answers from Practitioners of Sexual Masochism/Submission
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2021
Frédérike Labrecque, Audrey Potz, Émilie Larouche, Christian C. Joyal
The narratives studied confirm that prolonged and mild/intense pain received in an erotic and consensual context can induce sexual excitation and profound modification of state of mind, including trance and ecstasy. The benefits are reminiscent of those reported after unanesthesized body modifications (Juno & Vale, 1989; Myers, 1992) and natural childbirth (Davis & Pascali-Bonaro, 2010; Mayberry & Daniel, 2016). “Sacred” states of mind reached through physical pain are also reported in religious traditions (Glucklich, 2001) and voluntary involvement in highly painful activities in such contexts is often easier for the non-initiated to understand. Highly painful behaviors such as suspending the body on metal hooks (“Bagad”) and fire walking were still relatively common in southern India throughout the 20th century, despite repression of and laws against such practices (Kosambi, 1967; Powell, 1914; Thurston, 1906). Traditional Indian religions (e.g., Jainism) include extreme aesthetic behaviors, such as body mortification, which serve as “a technique of altering consciousness or withdrawing consciousness from the world of the senses in order to experience total world transcendence” (Cort, 2002, p. 2). As repellent as such rituals may seem to the external observer, they are associated with transcendence and agreeable altered states of consciousness. In North America, Native American rituals such as the Ghost Dance and the Sun Dance have been associated with altered states of mind and hypnosis in classical ethnographical work, which also notes their similarity to the rituals of European religious groups such as the Flagellants (Mooney, 1896). Indeed, self-administered flagellation has a long history in Christian devotion and penitence, and its link with transcendence, a sense of the sacred, and ecstasy is well documented (Glucklich, 2001).