Birth
Birth is the process of leaving the fetus completed from the uterus of the human female, where the woman feels the labor to crown the pregnancy and confirm the date of the fetus’s exit, and generally divided into three natural stages: the minors, the widening cervix, and the descent of the child from the mother’s abdomen, and disposal of placenta and exit , And many pregnant women may suffer serious complications, where every year about half a million women die from pregnancy and childbirth. To avoid these complications, a variety of ways to facilitate childbirth can be followed:
Ways to facilitate delivery
Foods
- Dates or wet: Dates contain high amounts of sugars necessary to provide the body energy to carry out hard work during the birth, and contains a high percentage of fibers that clean the intestines and colon, especially in the last period of pregnancy, and dates provide the body with vitamins: iron, phosphorus, calcium and minerals to counter the loss that is exposed It has women during and after birth, and potassium works to remove muscle spasm that affects women when the uterus contractions.
- Hot Spices: Hot spices accelerate labor and facilitate delivery.
- Pineapple, papaya and manga: These fruits are essential nutrients for the secretion of enzymes that work on the cervical lengthening, and reduce the period of labor to facilitate and accelerate the birth naturally.
- Olive oil and olive leaf leaves: It is also used to facilitate the birth of a baby, because it helps to expand the cervix, and cleans the stomach of medicines and chemicals acquired by the body of the pregnant women before birth, and doctors advise massage down the back of the pregnant to increase the proportion of relaxation and eliminate tension.
Marital Cohabitation
The husband may feel that it is impossible to get married by the 40th week of his wife’s pregnancy, but try to have intercourse at this stage of pregnancy, because the sperm of the man contains prostaglandin, which thinning and extending the cervix until it is mature and ready for delivery.
Exercise
- Massage: Massage helps the pregnant woman relax, elevates the level of oxytocin in the pregnant woman and stimulates uterine contractions.
- Deep breathing exercises: The exercise is performed by sitting in a squatting position, then slowly taking a deep breath from the nose to fill the pregnant belly with air, locking the breath for 5 seconds, And then remove it from the mouth slowly, and it is advised to repeat this exercise until you feel relaxed.
- Walking: Facilitates normal birth walking and widens the uterine opening, so doctors recommend pregnant women walking daily for at least half an hour.
- Squat Exercise: The squatting exercise strengthens the muscles of the pelvis and the thighs. The pregnant woman sits in a squat position with the feet completely separated on the ground. It is necessary to keep the back upright, then to hold the hands, and press firmly towards the opposite direction.