Question

What are the stages of childbirth? What is the difference between medicated and non-medicated childbirth? What preparation should a mother go through who has chosen a non-medicated delivery? What are the risk factors of a medicated delivery?

Answer 1

• Stage 1: Early labor and active labor-The first stage of labor and birth occurs when you begin to feel regular contractions, which cause the cervix to open (dilate) and soften, shorten and thin (effacement). This allows the baby to move into the birth canal. The first stage is the longest of the three stages. It's actually divided into two phases of its own — early labor (latent phase) and active labor.
• During early labor, your cervix dilates and effaces. You'll feel mild, irregular contractions.During active labor, your cervix will dilate from 6 centimeters (cm) to 10 cm. Your contractions will become stronger, closer together and regular. Your legs might cramp, and you might feel nauseated. You might feel your water break — if it hasn't already — and experience increasing pressure in your back. If you haven't headed to your labor and delivery facility yet, now's the time.
• Stage 2:-Pushing the baby into the world:-This is the stage when your baby is born. During the second stage of labour, your baby will descend into the birth canal and you'll push your baby down and out to meet you for the first time.
• Stage 3:-Delivery of the baby:-The third stage of labour begins once your baby is born, and ends when you deliver the placenta and the empty bag of waters that are attached to the placenta (membranes). These come away as your womb contracts down after the birth.
• Natural or non-medicated childbirth, which involves taking no drugs during labor, or medicated delivery, which involves taking drugs during labor or delivery.The medication given during childbirth is anesthesia, or medication that takes away pain by making an area numb or by taking consciousness away from the patient.
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