How to prepare yourself for childbirth
Your physician offer you more detailed information about labor and birth, along with suggestions for handling the challenges of each stage. To reinforce what you learn in childbirth from your OB, here are some tips on coping with labor and preparing to birth your baby with joy and confidence. Learn to Trust your body Be confident in your body's ability to give birth to a baby. For the majority of mothers, birth is a normal physiological process. A women's reproductive system works well as long as she takes care of it and no one interferes with it. Trust that your body is made to give birth. Be confident that birth will go well for you. Women who lack confidence in their bodies are at risk for having a less than satisfying birth experience. They are more likely to hand over responsibility for the birthing decisions to someone else. They are then set up for a medical and technological childbirth, even a cesarean section. This type of birth can further weaken an already shaky sel