Here in Kamloops, expectant parents are fortunate to have a number of fabulous resources for prenatal care and delivery.  One of these terrific resources is Tiny Blessings Prenatal.  Found online, here, Amy and Tara have a plethora of birth experiences and education to share with you, as you are expecting your new arrival.  They offer a terrific 5-week course as well as a few other programs to anyone interested in better preparing themselves for their delivery.

Read what Amy is sharing, today, to inform you about giving birth…

There is a movement around the world to change the way women give birth.  We are learning that the less we interfere in the process and the more we teach women to trust their bodies the better their birth outcomes. This is not saying that intervention in birth doesn’t have its place. Mothers and babies’ lives are saved by the quick and expert response of doctors, midwives and nurses in childbirth. However, in many births, women and babies have good birth outcomes when we decrease interventions in birth.

Over the last ten years we have seen ceasean birth rates rise by 45% (BCPHP, 2008, pg. 3). In 2005, cesarean rates had risen to 30.4% in BC (the highest across Canada) with the Kamloops region at 32.2% (BCPHP, 2008). This is a concern as cesarean birth “poses specific risks to maternal and newborn health [and] uses considerable resources and strains the health system” (BCPHP, 2008, pg. 1).

One way that we can reduce the rates of cesaeren births is to educate women and their families in childbearing. Specifically, ensuring adequate pain management in labour and educating women about childbirth were idetified as key factors in safely reducing ceasrean rates (BCPHP, 2008, p. 29).  Prenatal classes help women prepare for childbirth by teaching the purpose of pain, how to cope with pain, and how to make health decisions to avoid unnecessary interventions in childbirth. If you are pregnant and want prenatal classes, consider our Lamaze Certified prenatal classes. See course dates and read about our classes at  www.tinyblessingsprenatal.com.

For information on Lamaze go to www.lamaze.org/

“I think that unless we change the culture of fear around childbirth we will have very limited success in averting a new epidemic of cesarean section. People who are uncomfortable with mystery (and its companion uncertainty) often turn mysteries into problems for which they seek solutions. Interventions become the solutions to the problem / mystery of childbirth.”
Dr Phil Hall, ob/gyn (2003)

Reference: British Columbia Perinatal Health Program. Cesarean Birth
Task Force Report (2008). Vancouver, BC. February 2008.
Link: http://www.powertopush.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/CBTF_REPORT.pdf

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