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GW MFA - Pearls for a Normal Birth
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2. GW Midwifery Pearls for Normal Birth
• Encourage women to eat in early labor and drink throughout
• No routine IV fluids: don’t dilute normal oxytocin levels
• Intermittently monitor the fetal heart rate
• Keep women upright, mobile, and wet: use hydrotherapy
• Encourage doulas
• Do not routinely break the bag of waters
• Give women the time they need to birth their babies
• Wait for woman to involuntarily push and labor down with epidurals
• No routine episiotomies or aggressive vaginal stretching
• Delay cord clamping: give babies the blood they need and deserve
• Encourage immediate skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding
• Listen to the evidence, listen to women, and trust yourself