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Pregnancy preparations
- What to pack in hospital bag
- How to know yourself better
- Informed consent, communication and decision making during labour and birth
- How to write a birth plan (with a template and tips from a doula)
- VIDEO: What you can write in a birth plan
- Create a positive birth experience for you and your partner
- Preparing your perineum
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Choosing a maternity hospital
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Birth
- Braxton hicks – how are they different from true labour contractions?
- When to go to the hospital? Early labour
- Stages of birth or how birth really flows
- How to feel comfortable giving birth in a hospital
- How can your partner help and experience birth? What can be his role?
- Movement and positions for labour and birth
- Common hospital procedures – induction, epidural, amniotomy and episiothomy
- Pushing – how to breathe, spontaneous and directed pushing and positions
- What you should know about emergency Cesarean
- Right after the birth – Bonding, procedures and examinations
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Hospital stay and tips
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Postpartum
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Breastfeeding and newborn care
- VIDEO: What do you need to know about breastfeeding before your baby comes
- Newborn care basics – diaper change, swaddling, burping, bath and massage
- Is your baby getting enough milk?
- Safe sleep and breastfeeding
- Natural Breastfeeding program – access to a very positive breastfeeding course for easy breastfeeding
- Baby care easy: Baby wearing and elimination communication
- First aid basics for newborns and babies
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Support and contacts, birth certificates and other resources
Hello Anna, I am unable to see the pictures of the rooms of the hospitals. Could you please upload them again? Thanks
Thank you Alexandra 🙂 I uploaded them, they were deleted from the sites I previously linked them to. Thanks for letting me know.