How to Use Your Labor Bed in the Hospital

How to Use Your Labor Bed in the Hospital - Positive Hospital Birth

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You have options for your hospital birth! I think a lot of times people are concerned that they will be "confined to the bed" when in the hospital... I'm here to show you how much you can do with that bed! You are not confined, you have options and it should be everyone's goal to help you change positions for comfort, decrease pain, help your baby engage and rotate and speed up your labor! Who doesn't want that?
I'm here to show you how your "transformer" labor bed works, how you or your support team (partner, doula, family) can adjust the settings and really use it to your advantage!! The hospital L&D (labor & delivery) unit doesn't have to be scary or foreign anymore! Know what to expect so you are more confident for your upcoming labor & birth!
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Disclaimer: all information shared is for educational purposes only and framed through the lens of birth in North America. Please consult with your doctor before attempting any of the suggested things. Anything mentioned in any of my videos is never to replace the advice of your doctor or midwife. Make sure to check with them before you try anything suggested in my videos and if you have any further questions. I do not give out medical advice.

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@rachelgagot7363 3 жыл бұрын

I just wanted to sit up. My bed was positioned so it was basically a big chair. It was the only position that made labor tolerable. My nurse kept laying my bed down and making me try to lay down and relax. I finally had to tell her if she did it again I was going to sit in a chair. She didn't like that...but stopped moving my bed! 🤣

@yaninacabrera131 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@battlerapbae 3 жыл бұрын

I’m getting induced at 7:30am this morning so this video is right on time. Thanks for all you do for expecting moms ❤️

@Lex-pp7lt 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations!

@battlerapbae 3 жыл бұрын

@@Lex-pp7lt thank you

@patriciastarnes6219 3 жыл бұрын

You got this

@YG24_ 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations i know its like 2-3 months later but I hope you had a safe and smooth delivery!

@Sarah.g.carter 3 жыл бұрын

I'm just past my first trimester, my best friend is 8 weeks, and my other best friend just found out yesterday that she is pregnant. I discovered your channel yesterday and am bingewatching, saving videos, and taking notes and then sending the videos to them. THANK YOU

@Pathrissia 8 ай бұрын

I love how you normalize hospitals. I find them so scary otherwise 😢❤❤

@brattrox2939 3 ай бұрын

It helps me to think about this as the nurses workplace, every nurse walking in has familiarity with the hospital and familiarity if it's something like labor and delivery, with the situation I'm in so I try to think of it more as just getting to know a working family in their workplace.

@breannatatel_ 3 жыл бұрын

Delivered my son 3 weeks ago today, delivery was a piece of cake. Truly my easiest labor I’ve had and this was my 5th. I was induced at 39 weeks and 5 days, and to start labor I was 3cm. I was primarily laboring on the peanut ball, and walking around my room and leaning on to the bed with my husband applying pressure to my lumbar region and gluteus. For pushing I switched from litho to side laying, I ended up needed a epidural around 7cm in order to tolerate spinning my baby since he was posterior unfortunately so he wasn’t descending. Sure enough I get the epidural and hour and half later my water breaks, and 20 minutes later my precious boy was born. I did suffer from a PPH but knowing I have a history of a precious PpH and my crit at time of birth was 27.1 my midwives and nurses were prepared so I was treated promptly. Such a beautiful experience!!

@dessiemason2365 3 жыл бұрын

I would love a peanut ball version!! Thank you for sharing! I have so much more peace of mind what to expect in L&D with your help!!

@LifeWithElizabeth 3 жыл бұрын

I like the tips about raising the bed! With my first I labored mostly at home and was most comfortable standing and holding onto the back of a chair or the railing to our steps. This time (due with baby #2 in Feb!) I'm hoping to get to the hospital earlier and have more than 30 minutes in my L&D room lol. No car babies please. I'm hoping to get a tub room, but if I can't or the tub isn't comfortable then raising the bed to lean against might work well!

@mollyconnolly1859 3 жыл бұрын

I’m in the 3 week countdown until my induction and this video is sooo helpful! 🙌🏽 💗

@joanatoro5094 3 жыл бұрын

Omg I get very excited everytime I see your videos on my notifications. Thanks your the best.

@lylky 3 жыл бұрын

I love your videos and courses ❤️ thank you so much for caring and sharing with us all that info ❤️

@hattie2588 3 жыл бұрын

Watching from England, love watching your videos, I feel that if I am infirmed I feel so much more prepared and less anxious! Thanks for all of your videos

@novasmotion 2 жыл бұрын

I am planning my third unmedicated hospital birth this spring. I fully plan to deliver in a position other than lying down! It’s amazing how hard I had to push even for the option to actively labor in a position other than flat on my back

@alisonkollee8169 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I knew all of this with my two prior labors, looking forward to using this knowledge with baby number 3 due in 3 months. Thanks!!

@kayliprice193 3 жыл бұрын

I found myself in a bed similar to this on two separate occasions. If you do another video similar to this would you please demonstrate the squatting bar I used it in both my son's delivers. But a lot of people don't know what it is.

@KiwiDFruit 3 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate this video! I'm putting together my own birth education playlist that my husband and I can watch together, and this one will be really helpful for him! It's looking like I won't have my support team this time, and I'm really struggling with the feeling of needing to know All The Things myself, instead of being able to rely on my mom and doula.

@KiwiDFruit 3 жыл бұрын

Also, would love to see the video on peanut ball positions! Gimme ALLLL the positions! 😉

@toastednoodles4975 Жыл бұрын

There was a “setting” that my nurse pressed that put me in a zero gravity position 😮 let me tell you! It looks weird but it makes you feel great! You don’t feel any pressure… at… all! I highly recommend that “setting”

@Pathrissia 8 ай бұрын

What do you mean with zero gravity?

@chepa8869 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I would’ve seen this video December 1st.when I delivered my baby girl this was so helpful and now I know what I could’ve done

@elevatet2greatness 3 жыл бұрын

This is so Helpful!

@andreashanks565 2 жыл бұрын

This is such good info !! I’m 33 weeks and I’m so ready ! Baby number 4! Pregnancy number 3!

@wmnpwr98 3 жыл бұрын

Good stuff to know as a future FTM, I want to be prepared as much as possible for Labor and delivery in March 2021.

@axmaciel7 3 жыл бұрын

Hope you had a great labor and delivery!! ♥️

@lianaburnett8042 3 жыл бұрын

If all the L & D nurse were like you- coming from a doula!!!!

@beth90 3 жыл бұрын

16 hours of labor and I laid in bed twice, each time juuuust long enough for my midwife to check me 😂 Otherwise being in bed was a big NOPE for me. SO much easier to cope when I was upright! Also, I’m sorry but I find it absolutely absurd that nurses want to be present for position changes! I mean, I guess I understand for someone with an epidural or something who literally needs help to move. But my goodness, having had an unmedicated, undisturbed birth I would have found it beyond annoying if I wasn’t “allowed” to move without a nurse present. I listened to my body and moved instinctually the entire time. My movements and position changes weren’t really calculated or discussed. I just moved in whatever way my body was telling me to in that moment. Not a dang soul was telling me what positions to be in! ** That being said, I absolutely think it’s so important for women to know they have options. So often birth is depicted as something that just happens on your back. But the truth is we have options and there’s not just one way to birth. Knowledge is power! 😄

@MarCeyG 3 жыл бұрын

Amen! Women need to be empowered and know they have more options!

@pickmyflorez 3 жыл бұрын

thank you so much for this video! I'm a first-time mom due in May 2021 and feeling kind of overwhelmed, but your videos have been so so helpful

@Cece-ro8vd 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations, I’m due in May as well ! :)

@allaboutitvlogs2782 3 жыл бұрын

37 weeks today! Thank you for this informative video! This will be my third delivery. My second one was very traumatizing. Any tips or advice for moms that have PTSD? The bright lights give me so much anxiety.

@alannajackson832 3 жыл бұрын

I'm due for my second daughter in 9 weeks I'm excited

@Ashcattt 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a FTM due March 3rd - this was super helpful! Thank you!!

@MichelleMoyerMusic 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats!! I’m due March 3rd as well. Good luck to you!

@Ashcattt 3 жыл бұрын

@@MichelleMoyerMusic Thank you!! Congrats and good luck to you as well :)

@trichael7940 2 жыл бұрын

so wish my hospital had these beds

@yennifertorres724 3 жыл бұрын

I’m having an induction today afternoon, right on time 😬😁😁😁😁🥰🥰 thank you for the information 🙏🙏

@aliparker3 3 жыл бұрын

Oooh, sending you best wishes!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

@yennifertorres724 3 жыл бұрын

@@aliparker3 thank you 😊🥰🥰🥰🥰

@preetichahar9602 3 жыл бұрын

How did it go ?

@yennifertorres724 3 жыл бұрын

@@preetichahar9602 terrible 😢 but everyone is different. If you are having an induction I wish you the best luck 🍀😃🤞

@patriciastarnes6219 3 жыл бұрын

My labor and delivery was very hard and very painful. I’ll remember this

@kanwalfaisalurwa9658 2 жыл бұрын

I deliver baby boy 37+4days really helpful your video s

@raegracia6332 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve had 3 babies never had an epidural but also never been able to use those functions on the bed because I had my babies to quickly. With my last baby the on call doctor almost didn’t make it into the room in time. Babies head was already crowning before the doctor came in. They had to break down the bed as baby was coming out.

@angelbasham6631 3 жыл бұрын

I've had two like that lol I love this easier births

@ndodier 3 жыл бұрын

I am also nervous because of Covid and only having one support person in the room I was hoping my mom and sister could be there.

@Sweetxanne 3 жыл бұрын

You will do just fine!!! Just have them on video call throughout the whole time you're there

@AndreaRamirez 3 жыл бұрын

This video was great! Thank you for the info. 💕 I’m not gonna lie it kinda gave me a little anxiety because I’m due next week so I get nervous 😩. But I needed to see it lol

@skier23mpl 3 жыл бұрын

Sarah- I can't find any videos from you about turning a transverse baby. I'm 31 weeks tomorrow. Is it too soon to try to turn her?

@expectingnewlife 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! Has anyone mentioned that your cover image has hospital spelled wrong? 😬

@darkwaltz00 3 жыл бұрын

With my 3rd I had to fight with the midwife to not be on my back. My son was 11lbs and I’m pretty sure if I hadn’t labored squatting and on my side most of the time I’m pretty sure he would have been stuck. I was literally pushing and they kept trying to keep me flat despite telling them I needed to move. What would you do if the people in charge insist on trying to keep you in one position?

@crazyhellokitty2116 3 жыл бұрын

Do it anyway. It is YOUR birth, YOUR comfortability, and YOUR instincts telling you you need to move. It is your decision.

@darkwaltz00 3 жыл бұрын

@@crazyhellokitty2116 Yeah fighting the midwife about not being on my back was beyond stupid. I was literally actively laboring and they wouldn't let me be.

@crazyhellokitty2116 3 жыл бұрын

@@darkwaltz00 I’m sorry you had to go through that, I’d be PISSED

@faithharrison3755 2 жыл бұрын

That’s not cool, my midwife had me push my 10.5lb in a standing squat position, I had to be held up but we got my healthy baby boy out!

@cynthia3207 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for discussing this. A very strict midwife works at the hospital where I will be delivering and she puts all women on their back. I am prepared to fight in case she is in charge with me. I have prepared my husband as well to work with me on this. Hoping that she won't be working the shift though, I'd much rather not fight and discuss... Any further tipps on how to succeed in that case are greatly appreciated ❤

@bustkateers4 3 жыл бұрын

I hate the hospital beds. Laying on these beds actually caused me more pain when I was waiting to dilate than the pain caused by the c-section that I ended up needing. The days I spent in the hospital after birth I slept sitting in the side chair. I could not lay back down after I started walking because it was too painful getting back up.

@melissaferguson7630 3 жыл бұрын

I had a baby last year in July and it was awesome that the bed moved so much! We ended up making the bed into all sorts of different positions. Mine also had a squat bar and we used it to get through my strongest contraction that broke my water 😂 I went from a 4-8 in minutes 🌊 it was the biggest pop sound and SO much liquid

@Sweetxanne 3 жыл бұрын

I love this video but it's not realistic when you're hook up to the monitoring machine. And with my experience my baby never stayed in one place to get a good reading, and the nurses wanted me to be bed bound during the first 12 hours of my induction. So i couldn't even do all the things you're showing, and trust me i tried! I even did the wireless monitoring but the nurse told me that it wasn't working because my belly was not a nice round shape so she stop the wireless monitoring.

@KelsieCakes 3 жыл бұрын

Would definitely love a companion video with tips for induced labor!

@kittykathurricanetexas1634 2 жыл бұрын

I HAD to have a birth bar (with a yoga ball) & a rope to pull on… baby was born in less than 2 hours !

@bananamiggins1997 3 жыл бұрын

Do you have to push the baby out on your back?

@oliveo4164 3 жыл бұрын

No, you dont. You should try to push on your side, on all fours or kneeling if not using epidural. Those are the 3 most best positions in my view.

@angelbasham6631 3 жыл бұрын

I've always been laying on my back

@Naija4K 2 жыл бұрын

you only demonstrate the actual position for .5 seconds and talk the whole video.

@momma1208 9 ай бұрын

I'm very disappointed that you would recommend the stirrups. They are just for provider ease but terrible for pushing... that position closes the outlet. Knees in, ankles apart is the best position to open the pelvic outlet. Very disappointing to see anyone recommend this archaic device anymore.

@DisciplineOverMotivation-rj6tc Ай бұрын

This was three years ago also in American hospitals you do know most stuff they do, even with midwives, is archaic right? Nurses are led by midwives and midwives are led by physicians so everything will be old. She may have gave the one bad advice but most of what she is saying on here most midwives would not even share this