Inner West Births in Tempe, New South Wales, Australia | Pregnancy care centre

Inner West Births

Locality: Tempe, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 402 949 368

Address: 44 Wentworth Street, Tempe 2044 Tempe, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.innerwestbirths.com.au

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22.01.2022 I realize the irony of having to educate yourself about something that is so innate and instinctual. But the reason why we need to do this is that birth has bec...ome SO FAR removed from the instinctual behaviour it used to be. There’s been years upon years of attempting to control the uncontrollable. Predict the unpredictable. Make the non linear linear. To fit birth into a neat little box when it. Just. Isn’t. Possible. There’s been years of telling women that the pain of childbirth is more than anyone could or should bear. Years of turning a spiritual and emotional event into a purely mechanical, physical process. Birth is so much more than just a physical process, if you let it be. You don’t need to educate yourself on how to birth. But rather you need to strip away years of conditioning under a patriarchal society. You need to learn how to speak up and think for yourself again. How to navigate the system of bullshit that we now find ourselves in. How to let go of guilt or discomfort when you go against the wants or recommendations of another person, because their want doesn’t match your own. You KNOW how to birth. But you might not know all the other shit.

19.01.2022 Stupidly I had a membrane sweep and all it did was give me prodromal labor and I swear is the reason my son was sunny side up and I had a hard second stage of l...abor. The more you know... knowledge is power! - NurseMama Lisa If there was one ritual I'd like to see banned before 40 weeks, it's the stretch-and-sweep, aka membrane stripping. The routine stretch-and-sweep is performed during a vaginal exam any time beginning at 38-39 weeks. A stretch-and-sweep involves having the provider's gloved fingers manually stretch open the cervix and then strip the baby's amniotic sack away from the cervical opening. The baby's amniotic sack is normally adhered to the opening of the cervix in a way that prevents infectious agents from reaching the baby. It's one of pregnancy's many safe-guards. It is believed that manually dilating the cervix and separating the sack from the opening of the cervix will release extra prostaglandins that could stimulate labour. prostaglandin do not trigger normal labour. It is a hormone that ripens the cervix. It's actually the baby's lungs that trigger labour when they secrete a protein just when they're ready for air-breathing. Then oxytocin from mama's brain brings on contractions. A membrane stripping is intended to "prevent induction". What your provider is saying to you (if they tell you) is: "I will perform a mechanical induction to start labour artificially so that you might avoid a chemical induction after your due date with IV oxytocin in the hospital." Yes. A stretch-and-sweep is an induction that is meant to "prevent" induction. It is meant to bypass your baby's lungs and all of the safety mechanisms of human birth to get the baby out before the baby is ready. It hurts. It can make you bleed/spot. It can cause your water to break meaning you now are expected to go to the hospital for a chemical induction. It begins non-labour, disorganized, painful, non-dilating contractions most of the time. Your provider will say that you are in labour with these induced painful non-dilating contractions. You will be sent to the hospital for augmentation and may end up with a caesarean for failure-to-progress. It's a crappy way to have a baby. Some studies say that doing a membrane stripping doesn't shorten pregnancy. Other studies say it can shorten pregnancy by a couple of days. All studies say it introduces many risks to you and your baby. And since many providers won't tell you that they're going to do this,you must not only decline a stretch-and-sweep (which is often ignored - hello criminal offence) but also decline every vaginal exam prior to labour. Those exams have no benefit, give you no useful predictive information and introduce many risks. And for those who had a glorious stretch-and-sweep and had a baby a day later (yup, I've heard from at least 4 in the last 30 years amidst the several hundreds who have had crappy births), you probably would have had the baby anyway. And I'm beyond happy that you had a good experience as most women don't. Repost @alexandriaduran #pregnancy #whatyouneedtoknow #stretchandsweep #membranestripping #membranesweep

15.01.2022 Such an inditement on the hospital system that there are so many damaged women trying to mother their babies.

12.01.2022 I'm leaving this here for my own pleasure....

01.01.2022 A birth story of hope in the bush as the fires raged last week.