I took a private birth class with my husband that lasted four hours and I paid a lot of money for...but this free one was far more helpful! Thanks for posting!
Thank you Tucson Medical Center! I watched these videos with my first baby in 2021 and rewatched them again for baby 2 in 2023. Thank you for providing these.
I’m due in a few days. Here in Ireland all of the prenatal classes that were once available to women are non existent due to Covid. If it weren’t for this series I would be panicking because I would have basically been going in blind but this has helped me so much, I feel prepared for labour and delivery. Thank you. I would love to be able to thank this lady herself, amazing woman.
I'm due at the end of August and because of the pandemic I had no way of taking classes. This is my first baby so I had no idea what to do. I am so thankful for these videos to say the least.
Really I’m so worried this is my first baby I have no idea in these day corona problem so no doctor no midwife meet nd tell me anything just normal checkup don’t know what happens plz pray for me
I just wanted to say, I'm 33 weeks pregnant. my prenatal classes got canceled due to the covid BS and I am so grateful that this video is on here..no this hospital isn't in my area but the overall jist of it I find to be so helpful thank you!!
Great info I’m having my first baby and am very excited. Learned a lot from this class since I can’t go to my hospital bc of the COVID 19. Thanks for all the very helpful information and will be getting ready to be a mommy.
My second child I started laboring at home after a full day of shopping. So I told my husband at the time, he need to take me to the hospital, but watch the potholes in Brooklyn streets. But then I told him look just drive in the potholes,baby might come faster. Well guess what , from the moment I reach the hospital which was about 5:30 am, by the time i was checked in( was supposedto give birth in the Bronx), find a room, this boy was born at 8: 10 am. One delievery doctor for a few women who was in labor. Labor stories are the best.
I’m so grateful for these videos. So much information and I’m so glad it’s free. All the classes I’ve been told about cost money and most of the time they weren’t informative like this.
So I've had a baby and gone through another class that was extremely helpful then but that was also almost 5 yrs ago. I'm currently pregnant now and the OB's office I'm going through offers an online class but it was always when I was working so it was a pain. Then I got the I idea to look on here and I'm really happy I did. This is making me feel a lot better and it reminded me that I remember a lot more then I thought I did. So I wanted to say thank you very much! To everyone who participated in this. It's been amazingly helpful and I really appreciate it! Thank you guys so much!!
I'm not even pregnant yet. Hopefully will be in the next coming weeks. I enjoyed watching this and learned so much. I'll watch this again when I'm pregnant. ❤️
Lots of good info, but honestly when I'm in labor, I'm in the zone on another planet and I don't want anyone to touch me or talk to me. I also just move into whatever position not even thinking about it.
These classes are so helpful and useful! I would be so clueless going to delivery if not for her, The breathing techniques help me so much. Thank you so much!
Do look into delayed chord clamping it when you cut the chord as all the blood goes back to the baby and cutting the chord becomes as easy as slicing the butter as it turn white and soft.
My sister never had true labor pains! They felt like mild period cramps, and every time she had one, she would say, “I think I feel something, like a period cramp, but I’m not sure.” (I wanted to scream, “Feel SOMETHING, dang it!” LOL!) However, because they came at a steady pace-roughly every three minutes-she decided to go to the hospital, just to check. She was at 10cm by the time she got there! Her baby was coming shoulder first, and they had to rush her to get a c-section. But even at 10cm, she never had the feeling to push. (I think her uterus was broken.) Her doctor told her that those extremely mild pains are incredibly rare. Heck, I could’ve told her that! I was so freaking miserable with both of mine! I was in labor for four days with my first, and with my second baby, I couldn’t have an epidural, because I had a bad reaction the first time. All natural… ugh!
Speaking from poor experience, if labor is going long and you are starving, eat. My labor went 48 hours, I had bad reactions to all of the medications they pumped into me and they put a catheter in so I couldn't walk around to progress labor. It was a long 48 hours of not eating or sleeping to have a cesarean anyway. By the end of it all I could not recover from being so far behind
i dunno about you guys, but i am not going to be able to breathe so steadily and gently when my labor starts 🤣 Edit: Ive had the baby, it went extremely smooth with a 12 hour labor and 20 minute pushing session, and yes, i did breathe steadily (:
Talk through it. Talking helps talking about how much the pain sucks 😂 crack some jokes. Whatever it takes to redirect the anxiety. Breathing does help but sometimes you just need to complain. “Oh baby jesus take the wheel here comes another one can’t i get a flippin break here? Ahhhhhhhh. Ok that wasnt so bad im good the epidural can wai..... Aaahhhhhh here’s another one go find me an epidural now!!” 😂 looking back it was a good time to be honest. Enjoy it cause you only have it happen so many times in life. Good memories
I really hope these courses focus on positioning and transition because 20 yrs ago it was lay on your back strapped to a monitor and push when it was time. We really need to use gravity and movement in early labor to get the baby to drop. Then as we get closer labor in various positions and focus on the breathing to oxygenate the baby. I got all primal and was grunting but one nurse was all no your baby needs oxygen. Breathe breathe. It's hard but it super important to remember that.
It aint that bad seriously. Ive been through it 4 times and i mentally detach myself from whatever is going on down there. That’s what i pay the doctors to oversee and tell me what to do 🤣 it shrinks back closed in no time. Your body does some crazy stuff
With my first pregnancy I'm water broke at 37 wks, 5 days. It actually fully broke and I lost my pug about 15 minutes later. I called my midwife and was told that it was most likely false labour and to get some sleep. BAD ADVICE. Not only was I unable to fall asleep but I was in active labour and should have been told to walk around or come to the hospital. I called again 6 or 7 hours later and by this time I was counting time between contractions and they said a midwife would visit me soon, just rest and relax. A few more hours later she arrived, close to 9 hours after my water broke, and she assessed me, I was now only 3 cm dilated and she said it was real labour but very early. 🤨 Still being told to relax and wait, not walk around, it took another 12 hours for them to finally say we should go to the hospital IF THINGS DONT PROGRESS FASTER. In the end it was 36 hours between my water breaking and the actual delivery because I was give. Bad advice while I labour. So if I can offer any kind of advice, if you think your water has broken, if you think you are in labour, even if it does only turn out to be false labour, walk around straight away. Don't sit and don't rest. Trust and listen to your body because if it's true labour the walking will help things progress and if it's false labour there is no harm done anyway. 11 weeks away from baby number 3 and my second labour was only 3 hrs, also a few weeks early, because I followed my own advice based from my previous experience.
My midwife said that if water brakes I should go to the hospital anyways within 6 hours because there is no barrier between baby and the exterior anymore. I hope you had good labour this time :)
it took me 15+ yrs but it finally happened- in my last semester of college! I am due 2 weeks after I graduate. Don't stress and don't make conceiving the focus of your relationship- my marriage has had its rough moments because of my focus on getting pregnant. But best of luck to you both.
Another thing I would bring is a portable fan. One thing I have learned being on the labor and delivery floor is mothers get very hot during labor. Fans can help with that.
I’ve had 4 kids and my labor’s was me on my back. They were horrible but I didn’t know any different. I’m getting all the info I can for #5 so I don’t go through labour and just wing it again. We had no idea what we were doing and I didn’t know what I wanted. Thank you for this
I've already had a baby and went from 4cm to having baby in 18 minutes haha so I'd probably be up there early when this bub is due just in case 😅. But I love watching these and learning new things I didn't know with my first. I didn't do any birth and labor classes with my first. I did however do the breathing my midwife was great teaching me that even when in active labor
I was trauma on my first birth due to covid too, my birth classes was cancelled and i dont know what to do, thank you for this classes. May god bless you❤ i might need it now for my upcoming babies.
I used to mock these classes but i wish my husband had watched them 😂 my husband was so into the first 3 but by the 4th one he was playing on his phone by active labor wondering why i was making a big deal out of the pain “oh baby jesus here comes another one dude give me a break...” (me talking to myself) he’s like what do you need me to do? (Head down in phone tap tap tap) i have babies fast and pretty easy so he wasn’t that concerned. It was fine but i wish he had learned a little more. He did help the nurse move me around after the epidural that was cool good job dad 👍🤣 i push twice and baby is out every time so he always on the cleanup aisle helping with the baby getting scrubbed down. Even those little neck massages wouldve been nice at any point in our marriage. Maybe i need to be more vocal 🤣🤷♀️ Shes talking about mirrors and rubbing babies head. The pushing phase for me lasts literally 5 minutes. They never asked me if i wanted to nothing. I got a baby! Yay🤣
Ashley if my husband ever wonders why I’m making a big deal out of the pain, I’d most likely tie him down that very night and shove a 4 inch wide dildo up his ass to see how he copes with the pain. Thank God he’s not as he is the total opposite and I truly wished all women would have such a compassionate and understanding life partner by their side. I’m due in October and he’s been a Godsend so far, helping (an understatement) with the house chores, groceries, pets and family responsibilities.
My birth did not go at all according to plan. I developed pre-eclampsia. I went to the hospital for Non-stress test (NTS) which essentially monitors the baby and my blood pressure. After about an hour of testing, my OB said I couldn't leave the hospital. I was admitted and induction began. After nearly 2 full days of induction meds, my cervix wasn't progressing and my blood pressure was not improving. My doctor came in and said we are more than like doing a c-section within the hour. I wasn't happy, but it was what was best for baby and me. I ended up delivering a week early at 39 weeks. I have a healthy baby boy and am on my road to recovery. Thank you for asking! God bless!
@@va4life398 I'm sorry your birth wasn't what you may have planned but I am so glad to hear your baby boy is doing fine. That's really what matters! God bless you too
Are there 3 videos total on this session of birth classes? Anyone about to give birth during this 2020 pandemic?please pray for me , I am 39 weeks pregnant of my first baby on August of 2020 in the Boston area:) thanks
Wow...... I’m far from pregnant actually I fell asleep to a you tube video hours ago and I woke up doing deep breathing along with a dream of working in a medical dental Office clinic combined with pregnant patients, yes bizarre dream I was a dental assistant all my working years 25+ (the only job I ever had, I started as a teenager working with and for my dad as well rounded dentist. He also used breathing techniques with his patients with a calm monotone voice, didn’t work for me as a kid but I was a horrible kid patient) Anyway waking up to the deep calm breathing was so relaxing till my bladder woke up. I was so extremely relaxed coming out of a deep sleep, you voice is so clear and calming. I wish you were the voice to a relaxation audio. Your voice doesn’t click or pop or ssssnake basically annoy me so badly that the reasons rot a relaxing audio gets lost on me. If you ever do a just breathing relaxing audio that can be looped... I have fibromyalgia and I often go through my bag of tricks to exhaustion to get relaxed enough to fall asleep without prescription drugs or over use of melatonin. Shutting down my brain and getting all my body to in-tense and reduce the pain of serious knotted muscles that will begin to cramp or jerk me awake many times... I get muscle tension headaches and just have to go to bed in hopes to fall asleep to sleep it off in the middle of the day. I’m a single mom of one she’s high functioning “special needs” kid... basically she several kids rolled into one. My body wears me out all on its own but the stress of a single mom without the relief/ breaks or support from her father put undue stress and strain all on me. Now the only break I was getting... schools have closed. I love my daughter and have been through more than enough medical with her feeding tube from a three week old because of her syndrome- deletion 22q. And then when she was 9.5, Viral Encephalitis and that shanked her is so many ways and damaged her processing and personality and I believe some mood disorder but that’s tough to know because she a teenager too. I just need a good soft solid voice that will calm me and talk quietly in one ear to keep me breathing and get my body to relax. I developed my own mental toes to the top of my head quiet visualize a dark room. I thing of a cat scan starting at my toes and I visualize every slice on a viewing screen like looking at X-rays and if I’m still awake I start from head to toe. And try to keep my closed eye visual so that my brain doesn’t engage and wonder off into a stressful day dream of too much of all the external issues of my live it think of new ways to craft something. Please let me know if you make a breathing exercises audio. I’d pay to be able to put it on my phone
Alanna I think once you realize you are in real labor, go to the hospital and if you are too early, walk around there. My labors have become faster each time.
I'd leave as soon as you think you're in labor because you may find it hard to sit in a car later in labor. Also, you should probably travel and try to get to the town where the hospital is located while you can still concentrate on driving/travel.
You want to ideally be in active labour before going but also it depends how far the hospital is to you. Mine is a 15 minute drive so i would leave when there 4-5mins apart. If your like an hour away id call triage as soon as your in labour and you know its labour from timing them for about an hour then explain you will be driving yourself and live an hour away and they will telm you when they want you to start heading in ect.
My second labor was 12 hours versus my third labor which was just over 2 hours long! Barely made it and the third time we were closer to the hospital we were giving birth at.
For those concerned, this class is geared towards those with partners. If you’re a single mom with no ‘coach’, there are huge portions that are not for you.
Do you have a sister? A friend? Mom available? You can choose your birth coach. Don't feel like you have to do it alone! It doesn't have to be a husband or a boyfriend. Some women don't even want their husbands there. Lol.
MillennialExploration as much as I understand this, that isn’t always the case nor is it MY case. I am a single mom with no coach. I don’t live in a place where my friends and family can come assist me. My statement was not made to condemn the class but to inform those who don’t have a coach, partner, friend, family members or others to assist.
Rhonda L actually, yes I do have to do it alone. Having anther helpful nurse there is my only equivalent. Though a nurse is helpful, it’s not the same as having support from a loved one or a mate. I appreciate your concern.
i like t he idea of all these different ways to be during labor, but she never talks about how your going to be hooked up like crazy. I had a monitor around the baby and an internal monitor. This was all before I had an epidural. And I had to deal with being super hooked up for a good 15 plus hours before i had an epidural. I felt like i could never move. it was awful. I wasn't prepared for how much they limit you. Also i had no real complications other than my water broke before I started labor on its own. So I had to be at the hospital most of the time, about 12 hrs after my water broke. Labor took 38 hrs total from my water breaking. Most of the first 15- 18 hrs was more like pre labor though. So I'd love to see them address how your medical team may have you hooked up, even if you dont want to be, and you may not be having any complications. Also how your nurse rarely will be around. I thought they would be there helping throughout the labor, but they just come and check you every few hours, and don't stay around till its time to push. Not trying to scare anyone, but I expected a totally different experience. Especially since they told us that they have a ration of 1 nurse to 1 patient. I was there for 3 full shifts of nurses and maybe saw each nurse a max of 1 hr during their whole shift. Our childbirth class had been canceled as well, 3 weeks before i was due. And this was before there was any of these online videos. 2017. We had no idea what to do or how to be, and for sure my husband wasnt prepared to be super helpful. So we thought our nurse was defenitly going to give tips and help, that was not our experience. I'll be alot more prepared this time around, but it does look like there will be no classes again because of covid.... Also once i got an IV it really stabilized my contractions. And the epidural really did help and did not make me numb, just took some of the pain away. So much better then what I had heard. I also could feel everything and move my legs no problem. So keep that in mind, you wont feel paralyzed. Hope that takes some fear away for you if your scared.
You can opt out of all of that by saying you prefer intermittent monitoring. With my first, I came in and they took data for 20 minutes while I stood because I didn't want to sit. After that, they listened for the baby's heart rate every so often using a devise on my belly. So, I never had to lay down. I could move as I wanted.
Had my second on hands and knees simply because of things moving quickly for me, it was 100 times more comfortable and pleasant in my opinion than laying on the back.
Thanks a lot for this wonderful, informative series. Such a blessing in times like these. Quick request , can you please share the link to download the presentations or notes shown in this class? Thanks again. Really appreciate the service.
Thank you so much...am due in a weeks time in with my Third baby......but I prefer manually induced labor....coz I am already in the waiting game stage.....n my partner is in panic mode as I know it..... watching from Kenya
I didn't even know my husband was in the room. I didn't care. I'm expecting my second now, and I think it's actually going to be harder for my husband to not be there the whole time.
I took a private birth class with my husband that lasted four hours and I paid a lot of money for...but this free one was far more helpful! Thanks for posting!
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I'm 33 weeks pregnant now . Thank you for this very informative video.
Please pray for me and my baby 🤗
Thank you Tucson Medical Center! I watched these videos with my first baby in 2021 and rewatched them again for baby 2 in 2023. Thank you for providing these.
I’m due in a few days. Here in Ireland all of the prenatal classes that were once available to women are non existent due to Covid. If it weren’t for this series I would be panicking because I would have basically been going in blind but this has helped me so much, I feel prepared for labour and delivery. Thank you. I would love to be able to thank this lady herself, amazing woman.
I'm due at the end of August and because of the pandemic I had no way of taking classes. This is my first baby so I had no idea what to do. I am so thankful for these videos to say the least.
Same here! I'm due in mid July!
Same here!!! I’m due August 25 !!!
Really I’m so worried this is my first baby I have no idea in these day corona problem so no doctor no midwife meet nd tell me anything just normal checkup don’t know what happens plz pray for me
Wish you all the best!
Wow I’m Due August 24th !!
Her voice is just soooo relaxing. Thanks for posting this because this was very helpful !
My wife and i were searching for online curse, but i think we dont need anymore, this is way better 😁
Great job, very helpful, THANK YOU!!
Best childbirth class. Watching from São Paulo, Brazil. Every childbirth class are closed due to covid and this is helping a lot!
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I just wanted to say, I'm 33 weeks pregnant. my prenatal classes got canceled due to the covid BS and I am so grateful that this video is on here..no this hospital isn't in my area but the overall jist of it I find to be so helpful thank you!!
Same! Except I'm 30 weeks lol. Due Oct 25th 😁 x
@@Xenia2812 Halloween baby here and I'm getting so anxious. This and Nurse Zabe's channel are helping so much but my goodness.
Due Nov. 12 I'm so anxious but this video helps greatly
Great info I’m having my first baby and am very excited. Learned a lot from this class since I can’t go to my hospital bc of the COVID 19. Thanks for all the very helpful information and will be getting ready to be a mommy.
I hope it's not gonna be hurt for U since I'm pregnant 30 year old session
This woman is such a sweetheart and did a really nice job with the class
After two miscarriages in a row we are now expecting our first baby girl 💕
That's amazing ❤❤❤ miracle baby
Christina & Josue Congratulations!!
Congratulations dear...
God Bless your family!!!
I had two consecutive miscarriages too and now I have a bouncing baby boy. Losing a baby is the worse feeling ever..
My second child I started laboring at home after a full day of shopping. So I told my husband at the time, he need to take me to the hospital, but watch the potholes in Brooklyn streets. But then I told him look just drive in the potholes,baby might come faster. Well guess what , from the moment I reach the hospital which was about 5:30 am, by the time i was checked in( was supposedto give birth in the Bronx), find a room, this boy was born at 8: 10 am. One delievery doctor for a few women who was in labor. Labor stories are the best.
I’m so grateful for these videos. So much information and I’m so glad it’s free. All the classes I’ve been told about cost money and most of the time they weren’t informative like this.
And with money being tight it’s nice to have things like this
I can't believe this is free! Thank you so much
I am glad I bumped into these classes. much appreciated.
So I've had a baby and gone through another class that was extremely helpful then but that was also almost 5 yrs ago.
I'm currently pregnant now and the OB's office I'm going through offers an online class but it was always when I was working so it was a pain.
Then I got the I idea to look on here and I'm really happy I did. This is making me feel a lot better and it reminded me that I remember a lot more then I thought I did.
So I wanted to say thank you very much! To everyone who participated in this. It's been amazingly helpful and I really appreciate it!
Thank you guys so much!!
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I'm not even pregnant yet. Hopefully will be in the next coming weeks. I enjoyed watching this and learned so much. I'll watch this again when I'm pregnant. ❤️
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Thanks for uploading these videos. Your explanations gave me lots of confidence and courage. Thanks for sharing 🤍
17 weeks pregnant and her voice helps put me to sleep!
This was incredibly educational. Wow. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
I just want to thank you for this series, they are a wonderful resource
I love her humor 😂thanks for the great video
and especially to this wonderful woman and presentation 🥰
All of these videos and strong mothers have helped me through labor and delivery thank you❤
Thankful for these classes during Covid, my first baby and I'm far more prepared now. Thank you 👍🏽
Loving this series! Thank you Tucson Medical Center!
Lots of good info, but honestly when I'm in labor, I'm in the zone on another planet and I don't want anyone to touch me or talk to me. I also just move into whatever position not even thinking about it.
This helps a lot…I can immediately feel a lift in my spirits once I go through these workouts! Thanks a lot Amy! A must try for everyone
Thanks so much! My daughter is quarantined and 10 weeks away so this is perfect... So helpful :)
Thank you for such a great video, so educational and loved that lady presenting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
These classes are so helpful and useful! I would be so clueless going to delivery if not for her, The breathing techniques help me so much. Thank you so much!
Sooo thankful for this during this pandemic!!
Do look into delayed chord clamping it when you cut the chord as all the blood goes back to the baby and cutting the chord becomes as easy as slicing the butter as it turn white and soft.
She's awesome lol sending this to my husband. Such a helpful video
My sister never had true labor pains! They felt like mild period cramps, and every time she had one, she would say, “I think I feel something, like a period cramp, but I’m not sure.” (I wanted to scream, “Feel SOMETHING, dang it!” LOL!) However, because they came at a steady pace-roughly every three minutes-she decided to go to the hospital, just to check. She was at 10cm by the time she got there! Her baby was coming shoulder first, and they had to rush her to get a c-section. But even at 10cm, she never had the feeling to push. (I think her uterus was broken.) Her doctor told her that those extremely mild pains are incredibly rare. Heck, I could’ve told her that! I was so freaking miserable with both of mine! I was in labor for four days with my first, and with my second baby, I couldn’t have an epidural, because I had a bad reaction the first time. All natural… ugh!
If I can’t eat my hubby can’t eat either, we in this together!!! 😂
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Yes lol 🤣
Speaking from poor experience, if labor is going long and you are starving, eat. My labor went 48 hours, I had bad reactions to all of the medications they pumped into me and they put a catheter in so I couldn't walk around to progress labor. It was a long 48 hours of not eating or sleeping to have a cesarean anyway. By the end of it all I could not recover from being so far behind
i dunno about you guys, but i am not going to be able to breathe so steadily and gently when my labor starts 🤣
Edit: Ive had the baby, it went extremely smooth with a 12 hour labor and 20 minute pushing session, and yes, i did breathe steadily (:
Congratulations send some of tht energy this way
Talk through it. Talking helps talking about how much the pain sucks 😂 crack some jokes. Whatever it takes to redirect the anxiety. Breathing does help but sometimes you just need to complain. “Oh baby jesus take the wheel here comes another one can’t i get a flippin break here? Ahhhhhhhh. Ok that wasnt so bad im good the epidural can wai..... Aaahhhhhh here’s another one go find me an epidural now!!” 😂 looking back it was a good time to be honest. Enjoy it cause you only have it happen so many times in life. Good memories
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Thank you so much for the amazing class, am 32 weeks pregnant after a miscarriage at 17 weeks ❤
Oh my god she is so sweet!!
Extremely helpful and informative! Many thanks xxx
I'm due end of December , this video is very helpful :) thank you!
I'm due in Nov. 12 I can't wait any longer
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Man they say sleep in between but I’m 30 weeks and I’m so uncomfortable it takes me at least an hour to fall asleep
Is it safe to use melatonin while pregnant?
@@Guppyg53 I am 33 weeks pregnant and having a hard time sleeping too. Today I saw my doctor and she said I can take melatonin.
RIGHT 😂 if everything isn’t absolutely perfect I can’t fall asleep! Lord only knows how I’ll be able to sleep during that time!
GuppyG yes, it is safe. My doctor suggested it with both of my previous pregnancies.
You can also try drinking tart cherry juice before bed, if you want to avoid taking melatonin.
I really hope these courses focus on positioning and transition because 20 yrs ago it was lay on your back strapped to a monitor and push when it was time. We really need to use gravity and movement in early labor to get the baby to drop. Then as we get closer labor in various positions and focus on the breathing to oxygenate the baby. I got all primal and was grunting but one nurse was all no your baby needs oxygen. Breathe breathe. It's hard but it super important to remember that.
Some hospitals and some midwives prefers labour on the back still. At least in my country. Heh
Very helpful video. I would like to watch it several times more, before I head for the hospital.
This is a treasure. just finished watching with my husband
I know she didn’t just say it goes from a cheerio to a grapefruit....... that sounds terrifying !!! :-( Holy cow!!
It aint that bad seriously. Ive been through it 4 times and i mentally detach myself from whatever is going on down there. That’s what i pay the doctors to oversee and tell me what to do 🤣 it shrinks back closed in no time. Your body does some crazy stuff
Ashley I had my baby 10 weeks ago. Can confirm, is that bad 😂 😭
It is!!! Less terrifying as I'm getting closer to delivery because excitement is taking over ,but preparation makes it not so scary😍 it is temporary
I said ow when she said it 😂😂😂😂
With my first pregnancy I'm water broke at 37 wks, 5 days. It actually fully broke and I lost my pug about 15 minutes later. I called my midwife and was told that it was most likely false labour and to get some sleep. BAD ADVICE. Not only was I unable to fall asleep but I was in active labour and should have been told to walk around or come to the hospital. I called again 6 or 7 hours later and by this time I was counting time between contractions and they said a midwife would visit me soon, just rest and relax. A few more hours later she arrived, close to 9 hours after my water broke, and she assessed me, I was now only 3 cm dilated and she said it was real labour but very early. 🤨
Still being told to relax and wait, not walk around, it took another 12 hours for them to finally say we should go to the hospital IF THINGS DONT PROGRESS FASTER. In the end it was 36 hours between my water breaking and the actual delivery because I was give. Bad advice while I labour. So if I can offer any kind of advice, if you think your water has broken, if you think you are in labour, even if it does only turn out to be false labour, walk around straight away. Don't sit and don't rest. Trust and listen to your body because if it's true labour the walking will help things progress and if it's false labour there is no harm done anyway. 11 weeks away from baby number 3 and my second labour was only 3 hrs, also a few weeks early, because I followed my own advice based from my previous experience.
My midwife said that if water brakes I should go to the hospital anyways within 6 hours because there is no barrier between baby and the exterior anymore. I hope you had good labour this time :)
The guy in the orange shirt missed a belt loop. :-). We loved your classes. Thank you. Due date is in 32 days.
The men massaging their wives to reinforce they're there...golden
I hope my partner and I can conceive. We want to have a baby so bad!
I am thinking of u! 7 months here so sending u pregnancy vibes 😊
it took me 15+ yrs but it finally happened- in my last semester of college! I am due 2 weeks after I graduate. Don't stress and don't make conceiving the focus of your relationship- my marriage has had its rough moments because of my focus on getting pregnant. But best of luck to you both.
GuppyG update?
Try reading Dr. Neal Barnard's book Your Body in Balance.
Eat a lot of fresh pomegranate for a few weeks and then then try the intercourse.
This is an exceptional video/class!
Amazing!!! Thank you for sharing your emotional and spiritual journey!
Excellent class ma'am! Thank you! 💖
Another thing I would bring is a portable fan. One thing I have learned being on the labor and delivery floor is mothers get very hot during labor. Fans can help with that.
I'm 38 weeks today and finding this super assuring. Hopefully I'll remember everything in the moment of truth
Omg I’m 38 weeks today too! May you have good and safe delivery to you and your little one.
Thank you so much for this wonderful information!!
What happened to delayed cord clamping?
So grateful for these videos. I’m due soon and definitely can’t afford to take a +$300 class around here.
Very informative, thank you very much. God bless you.
I’ve had 4 kids and my labor’s was me on my back. They were horrible but I didn’t know any different. I’m getting all the info I can for #5 so I don’t go through labour and just wing it again. We had no idea what we were doing and I didn’t know what I wanted. Thank you for this
Very helpful. Great teacher❤.
Thanks God blessyou
I've already had a baby and went from 4cm to having baby in 18 minutes haha so I'd probably be up there early when this bub is due just in case 😅. But I love watching these and learning new things I didn't know with my first. I didn't do any birth and labor classes with my first. I did however do the breathing my midwife was great teaching me that even when in active labor
Am 38 weeks pregnant my baby don't sleep thank for this video
So grateful for this class🙏😊
Thanks so much for uploading this is much helpful then watching a computerized video and no tow way communication
With both of my kids it only took me 3 pushes hopefully it will with the third one on the way.
I was a one push baby so hopefully they are as well
3 1/2 weeks left thanks for the information
Did you have the baby yet ?
@@marvuitton not yet. I’m so excited and can’t wait to see little face
This is really valuable information
I was trauma on my first birth due to covid too, my birth classes was cancelled and i dont know what to do, thank you for this classes. May god bless you❤ i might need it now for my upcoming babies.
Wow what a coincidence. I live and am from Tucson. Here I am searching the web and the class was filmed here.
Really grateful for these videos. Thank you 💛
I used to mock these classes but i wish my husband had watched them 😂 my husband was so into the first 3 but by the 4th one he was playing on his phone by active labor wondering why i was making a big deal out of the pain “oh baby jesus here comes another one dude give me a break...” (me talking to myself) he’s like what do you need me to do? (Head down in phone tap tap tap) i have babies fast and pretty easy so he wasn’t that concerned. It was fine but i wish he had learned a little more. He did help the nurse move me around after the epidural that was cool good job dad 👍🤣 i push twice and baby is out every time so he always on the cleanup aisle helping with the baby getting scrubbed down. Even those little neck massages wouldve been nice at any point in our marriage. Maybe i need to be more vocal 🤣🤷♀️ Shes talking about mirrors and rubbing babies head. The pushing phase for me lasts literally 5 minutes. They never asked me if i wanted to nothing. I got a baby! Yay🤣
Ashley if my husband ever wonders why I’m making a big deal out of the pain, I’d most likely tie him down that very night and shove a 4 inch wide dildo up his ass to see how he copes with the pain. Thank God he’s not as he is the total opposite and I truly wished all women would have such a compassionate and understanding life partner by their side. I’m due in October and he’s been a Godsend so far, helping (an understatement) with the house chores, groceries, pets and family responsibilities.
This is helpful, I am due in October
Donde pudiera encontrar este video en espańol 🤰🏻
Free class 🙌 don't need to waste money lol
Thank you for an amazing class! 💗🤰🏻💕🥰
Thankful for this class. Because of corona, I was not able to attend a birthing class. I’m due in 3 weeks.
How was your birth
My birth did not go at all according to plan. I developed pre-eclampsia. I went to the hospital for Non-stress test (NTS) which essentially monitors the baby and my blood pressure. After about an hour of testing, my OB said I couldn't leave the hospital. I was admitted and induction began. After nearly 2 full days of induction meds, my cervix wasn't progressing and my blood pressure was not improving. My doctor came in and said we are more than like doing a c-section within the hour. I wasn't happy, but it was what was best for baby and me. I ended up delivering a week early at 39 weeks. I have a healthy baby boy and am on my road to recovery. Thank you for asking! God bless!
@@va4life398 I'm sorry your birth wasn't what you may have planned but I am so glad to hear your baby boy is doing fine. That's really what matters! God bless you too
I can feel the tension in the room every time Apollo opens his mouth 😅
Hahaha! He’s a goof
Thank God someone said it, the two dads on the left are kinda lame
right!
Litterally what I was thinking!!
Everytime he opened his mouth even his girl was embarrassed 🤦🏽♀️ hahahaha
Apollo is my favorite character!
Are there 3 videos total on this session of birth classes? Anyone about to give birth during this 2020 pandemic?please pray for me , I am 39 weeks pregnant of my first baby on August of 2020 in the Boston area:) thanks
I found 5 videos
Hey! Hope u’ll have ur healthy little cutie soon, don’t forget to write about ur birthing experience pri? I’m due first week September, Manchester UK🙂
Check out Holliday Tyson's videos too. I found them helpful.
@@irmamubarik4916 hey can you tell me how was ur experience I am also in the Uk.
Wow...... I’m far from pregnant
actually I fell asleep to a you tube video hours ago and I woke up doing deep breathing along with a dream of working in a medical dental Office clinic combined with pregnant patients, yes bizarre dream I was a dental assistant all my working years 25+ (the only job I ever had, I started as a teenager working with and for my dad as well rounded dentist. He also used breathing techniques with his patients with a calm monotone voice, didn’t work for me as a kid but I was a horrible kid patient)
Anyway waking up to the deep calm breathing was so relaxing till my bladder woke up. I was so extremely relaxed coming out of a deep sleep, you voice is so clear and calming. I wish you were the voice to a relaxation audio. Your voice doesn’t click or pop or ssssnake basically annoy me so badly that the reasons rot a relaxing audio gets lost on me.
If you ever do a just breathing relaxing audio that can be looped... I have fibromyalgia and I often go through my bag of tricks to exhaustion to get relaxed enough to fall asleep without prescription drugs or over use of melatonin. Shutting down my brain and getting all my body to in-tense and reduce the pain of serious knotted muscles that will begin to cramp or jerk me awake many times... I get muscle tension headaches and just have to go to bed in hopes to fall asleep to sleep it off in the middle of the day. I’m a single mom of one she’s high functioning “special needs” kid... basically she several kids rolled into one. My body wears me out all on its own but the stress of a single mom without the relief/ breaks or support from her father put undue stress and strain all on me. Now the only break I was getting... schools have closed. I love my daughter and have been through more than enough medical with her feeding tube from a three week old because of her syndrome- deletion 22q. And then when she was 9.5, Viral Encephalitis and that shanked her is so many ways and damaged her processing and personality and I believe some mood disorder but that’s tough to know because she a teenager too.
I just need a good soft solid voice that will calm me and talk quietly in one ear to keep me breathing and get my body to relax. I developed my own mental toes to the top of my head quiet visualize a dark room. I thing of a cat scan starting at my toes and I visualize every slice on a viewing screen like looking at X-rays and if I’m still awake I start from head to toe. And try to keep my closed eye visual so that my brain doesn’t engage and wonder off into a stressful day dream of too much of all the external issues of my live it think of new ways to craft something.
Please let me know if you make a breathing exercises audio. I’d pay to be able to put it on my phone
such a good video!! thank you!
If you were driving an hour to the hospital with your third baby, how far apart contractions would you start driving?
Alanna I think once you realize you are in real labor, go to the hospital and if you are too early, walk around there. My labors have become faster each time.
I'd leave as soon as you think you're in labor because you may find it hard to sit in a car later in labor. Also, you should probably travel and try to get to the town where the hospital is located while you can still concentrate on driving/travel.
You want to ideally be in active labour before going but also it depends how far the hospital is to you. Mine is a 15 minute drive so i would leave when there 4-5mins apart.
If your like an hour away id call triage as soon as your in labour and you know its labour from timing them for about an hour then explain you will be driving yourself and live an hour away and they will telm you when they want you to start heading in ect.
My second labor was 12 hours versus my third labor which was just over 2 hours long! Barely made it and the third time we were closer to the hospital we were giving birth at.
Wth did he really just lean on her lower back instead of massaging...omg poor mum and baby 🤦🏽♀️ ouch
Thank you, this really helped.
For those concerned, this class is geared towards those with partners. If you’re a single mom with no ‘coach’, there are huge portions that are not for you.
A coach does not technically need to be a partner. Single mothers can have a doula present or someone they trust like a dear friend or relative.
Do you have a sister? A friend? Mom available? You can choose your birth coach. Don't feel like you have to do it alone! It doesn't have to be a husband or a boyfriend. Some women don't even want their husbands there. Lol.
MillennialExploration as much as I understand this, that isn’t always the case nor is it MY case. I am a single mom with no coach. I don’t live in a place where my friends and family can come assist me. My statement was not made to condemn the class but to inform those who don’t have a coach, partner, friend, family members or others to assist.
Rhonda L actually, yes I do have to do it alone. Having anther helpful nurse there is my only equivalent. Though a nurse is helpful, it’s not the same as having support from a loved one or a mate. I appreciate your concern.
Shekeia Boyd ❤️
Still valuable in 2022 😊
i like t he idea of all these different ways to be during labor, but she never talks about how your going to be hooked up like crazy. I had a monitor around the baby and an internal monitor. This was all before I had an epidural. And I had to deal with being super hooked up for a good 15 plus hours before i had an epidural. I felt like i could never move. it was awful. I wasn't prepared for how much they limit you. Also i had no real complications other than my water broke before I started labor on its own. So I had to be at the hospital most of the time, about 12 hrs after my water broke. Labor took 38 hrs total from my water breaking. Most of the first 15- 18 hrs was more like pre labor though. So I'd love to see them address how your medical team may have you hooked up, even if you dont want to be, and you may not be having any complications. Also how your nurse rarely will be around. I thought they would be there helping throughout the labor, but they just come and check you every few hours, and don't stay around till its time to push. Not trying to scare anyone, but I expected a totally different experience. Especially since they told us that they have a ration of 1 nurse to 1 patient. I was there for 3 full shifts of nurses and maybe saw each nurse a max of 1 hr during their whole shift. Our childbirth class had been canceled as well, 3 weeks before i was due. And this was before there was any of these online videos. 2017. We had no idea what to do or how to be, and for sure my husband wasnt prepared to be super helpful. So we thought our nurse was defenitly going to give tips and help, that was not our experience. I'll be alot more prepared this time around, but it does look like there will be no classes again because of covid.... Also once i got an IV it really stabilized my contractions. And the epidural really did help and did not make me numb, just took some of the pain away. So much better then what I had heard. I also could feel everything and move my legs no problem. So keep that in mind, you wont feel paralyzed. Hope that takes some fear away for you if your scared.
That was my experience with induction. There’s no chance to walk or shower... just intervention after intervention and laboring on the back.
You can opt out of all of that by saying you prefer intermittent monitoring.
With my first, I came in and they took data for 20 minutes while I stood because I didn't want to sit. After that, they listened for the baby's heart rate every so often using a devise on my belly. So, I never had to lay down. I could move as I wanted.
I didn't find it effected my movement at all but then again only had the monitor as went into labour natrually and didn't use an epidural x
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
Thank you soo much
This is a really good class!
Having your baby on your knees easy to deliver for mom?
Brenda Sollers yup. It’s more natural, from what I’ve heard
Definitely! Being on hands and knees is a great position for mommas to deliver in😊
Had my second on hands and knees simply because of things moving quickly for me, it was 100 times more comfortable and pleasant in my opinion than laying on the back.
Brenda Sollers Your body will move where it is comfortable.
Nikky W did you have an epidural?
Thank you so much for the upload. It helped me a lot!
I don't know about you, but I did not forget when the placenta came out that bugger hurt worse than the baby.
Super helpful. Thanks a lot
Thanks a lot for this wonderful, informative series. Such a blessing in times like these. Quick request , can you please share the link to download the presentations or notes shown in this class? Thanks again. Really appreciate the service.
Thank you so much...am due in a weeks time in with my Third baby......but I prefer manually induced labor....coz I am already in the waiting game stage.....n my partner is in panic mode as I know it..... watching from Kenya
She is finally here
Hi! How was it? Will there be any tips that you can share? First time mom hehe 😁
thanks for uploading!
Imagine while going through these stages of labor your only support can only be contacted on the phone.
I didn't even know my husband was in the room. I didn't care.
I'm expecting my second now, and I think it's actually going to be harder for my husband to not be there the whole time.