Kathy Fray is an award-winning best-selling parenting author, passionate promoter of mothers-to-be accessing empowering maternity education, holistically-minded Midwife, and thought-leader of Integrative Maternity Healthcare information.
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hi everybody can't be fray here from otherwise and welcome to another episode another webinar or podcast depending on what you're watching all this thing too so the topic today is going to be about reaching to Matt Lieber so you're now at 37 weeks and or above in somewhere between 37 and 42 weeks is an absolutely normal time to give birth not early not
late so before 37 weeks is early and after 42 weeks is late alright so you should already hear listen to stuff before from me I think that would have told you about the signs and symptoms of active labor so with the first baby that's usually once you've had one to two hours of 3 to 4 contractions every 10 minutes all over a minute long and at that point you've started active labor before there is latent labor and with a second baby generally you would touch base once you've had a couple of hours of 2 contractions of routine minutes or as soon as you're having 3 contractions every 10 minutes but that's but everybody is different in everybody's
situation is unique so it's important that you speak with your own Midwife or obstetrician about what arrangements you have between you and them as to when it's the right time to be touching base in your labor to other things that commonly occur in labor which are absolutely normal end of no obstetric emergency as you having some bloody mucus shows they're not always bloody but they are always mucousy and look a bit like sort of egg white really and with a bit of a sort of bit of blood through them so that means your cervix is opening which is wonderful end s but bloody shows can occur up to two weeks before having a baby so there's certainly nothing to you super excited about it's just a normal thing occurring and then the second thing that's absolutely normal is waters breaking so waters can break before labor during labor during birth or after birth oh really but that does occur sometimes too so again absolutely not normal nothing to be freaking out about two things that are not normal when you're in labor is if you are actively humoring so that means you could you are blood you are bleeding it is running down your legs filling a paired and half filling a sanitary paper and a half an hour or something like that that's absolutely not normal and very rare when it comes to a normal spontaneous labor with a healthy normal baby on board having hemorrhaging and labor is veryrare but it's something unique you would absolutely need to go to the hospital on very quickly and the other thing is if you have meconium meconium stained waters so if the waters are yellow or brown it means your baby
is had a poo which may just mean it's had a poo or it may mean that the baby is stressed so that is another reason to get checked out it's not a bells and whistles emergency but it does mean that you want to get to have somebody assess your baby's happy today reasonably timely way and certainly if your baby is kicking around very happily and normally I would I certainly wouldn't be terribly stressed about it but it is still something to get checked out okay now if you are in labor and you're wanting to know or if you're sorry if you're wanting to find out things that you can do to get yourself into labour or things you can do to augment your latent labour into active labor so yeah there's quite a little bunch of those things and but I will be talking about those in greater detail in my for mother wise podcast the webinar and that's how a members area our inner circle mother wise master class which you are absolutely welcome to join and we'll include a link on the in on the common here so you can see how you can find out more about that as well and then the only other thing I would say is with
regards to clothing for baby um please would you check out my day 1 baby Illume lay it and you need to go to roots and wings website which is a merino clothing merino wool clothing company website and the day one baby heirloom lay it is on there and these are clothes a little kit of clothes that are specially designed for a brand new just born baby because trust me the newborn size does not fit a brand new baby properly newborn size is designed
for the naught to three month olds but
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