Mommas, I highly recommend pushing in an upright position, and following your own instincts when it comes to breathing during pushing. I’m a doula and expecting my 4th. Never had an epidural and used the squat bar for my last birth. It was an absolute DREAM 😍!!! All my birth stories are on my channel if you’re interested. All the best to you with your deliveries 🙏🏿!

Instead of holding your breath and performing the valsalva maneuver, you can perform an open glottis push with a J breath. There are a few videos on KZfaq demonstrating this technique. Remember that preparation is very important, you don't run a marathon without some training :)

I don’t agree with this way of pushing either. It closes the sacrum and makes a smaller opening for your baby to come out. 😡 I think this was the very reason I had a shoulder dystocia birth.

Fully dialated does not mean it's time to start pushing!!!! You're not a robot on an automatic timer! Listen to your body it will automatically push your baby out with the contractions when it's ready, it's a reflex! Your body was made to do this. Do not strain pushing for hrs on a doctor's watch!!!!

How the hell do you push with your face? This is the exact thing that caused my body more stress and damage than anything.. Now currently suffering with hemorrhoids and a hernia after the delivery of my son because I was harrassed for the way that I was "pushing" and forced to lay in an uncomfortable position.. Fun part is, I NEVER felt the urge to push!!! I felt entirely that my BODY was doing the work, my uterus was contracting for me and I had zero control of his head descending.. even with being nervous since my OB was nowhere to be found. This also created issues as I suffer with SPD and this caused more stress on my pelvis. 👍🏻

I never needed to ‘push’.. my contractions pushed the baby out. I had an unmedicated water birth and pushing while I was feeling the head come out would of tripled the pain/ring of fire feeling

Sorry but I'm not gonna lay on my back and basic crunch and pull myself up with my hands behind my own legs to push the baby out.you all better let me raise the head of the bed up and us stirrups cuz I cant crunch myself now and I've got 10 wks left I'm not grabbing my legs they better be held for me

Make him deliver a baby holding his own fucking legs up that's sounds so fucking exhausting

I heard that pushing worsens pain.. They said Don't push. But just allow the body to naturally do it's job.? since contractions happens this waves descends the baby to the outside canal.. what's ur theory? thanks.

I disagree with the method you explained to push baby out.