Tips To Help Get Labor Started
To encourage labor, it's important to position the baby properly in the pelvis. This can help avoid irregular, prodromal labor and stimulate the release of prostaglandins to ripen the cervix. Exercises to aid this include open knee chest position for 5-10 minutes, lunging and psoas stretching to give more space in the uterus, hip openers using a ball, chair, or floor, deep squats for pelvic floor strength, and gentle swaying on a birthing ball in U or 8 patterns. These methods aim to open the pelvis, allowing the baby to descend and rotate if necessary.
Avoid a Cesarean with This Pushing Tip
You’ve got to try this one if you find yourself in a scenario where people are saying baby is “stuck,” you’ve been pushing for hours, or there are whispers of needing a cesarean. Your pelvis is a funnel. Baby has to make lots of wiggles and maneuvers to get through - and 🌟 Knees In, Feet Out 🌟 pushing opens the BOTTOM of the funnel (where babies may get “stuck”). 📌 In any pushing position (on the back, on the side, hands and knees, squatting), if you rotate your KNEES TOGETHER (and feet apart) your femur(s) rotate in such a way that the BOTTOM of the pelvis opens. 🙌🏼 Pulling your legs way back (like we’re often told to do (and yes, I’m guilty as an RN of teaching and encouraging that sometimes)) is really the opposite of what the pelvis/baby need! 👉🏼 This can feel hard to do -
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Here's How to do the Miles Circuit Stretches!
Are you ready to have the baby? Sick of being pregnant? If you are then check out the Miles circuit to induce labor. The Miles Circuit is a series of stretches to open the pelvis and allow the baby to get low into the pelvis. Try these mile circuits stretches to start your labor.