Photos for Public Access Television – Sept 26, 2018
Name: Faith Gibson, LM (California-licensed professional midwife)
Lives and has a small private midwifery practice in Palo Alto, Ca
Website: faithgibson.org
- Pictures of cute babies – use as many or few as you want
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New Moms
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Family that received normal childbirth services from California midwives the births of all four of their children
Myth-buster #1 — The Right Use of Gravity during labor and birth:
The myth that we are busting tonight is the cultural idea that the best place for a healthy pregnant woman to labor is in bed and the best position for pushing her baby out is laying on her back.
Typical positions for laboring women in the US:
Laboring in bed in anti-gravitational positions
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The “Right Use of Gravity” — the letter “J” as visual example of why it wise to be upright and mobile during active labor:
Sitting upright, standing, walking, kneeling, squatting, or side-lying
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Right use of Gravity to push baby down into the pelvis so it can be born spontaneously (no need to use forceps, vacuum extraction or do a Cesarean section)
Anti-gravitational ~ laying down with the mother’s feet and legs in stirrups, pushing the baby uphill
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Right Use of Gravity – mother upright (second photo needs color correction)
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After pushing in upright positions, giving birth in a deep-water tub
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End Here
Unused Photos and detailed explanation of the consequences of the ‘wrong use’ of gravity when it requires obstetrical intervention such as the use of forceps or vacuum extraction
Laboring at home with 2 year old as company
Curve of Carus
wrong use of gravity
Photos 1 & 2 – Forceps to pull baby down in pelvis
Photo #3 pulling baby out of the pelvis, directly upward, toward ceiling
