Why Choose Confident Childbirth?

There are many benefits you can gain by using Confident Childbirth,
some are listed below:

Pre Birth

• The experience of pregnancy is an altogether healthier, more enjoyable, positive and exciting process.
• Provides the mother with more confidence to have a positive birth experience.
• Increased coping mechanisms and ability to accommodate levels of discomfort.
• Can clear trauma around previous negative birth experiences to allow mother to engage with the present pregnancy with a more confident and optimistic outlook.

At birth

• Increases the mother’s ability to relax mentally and physically. This reduces fear, tension and pain in the mother thereby eliminating or greatly reducing the need for chemical painkillers.
• Shorter labour times.
• Paces the mother to her experience so that she is able to control her energy levels.
• Calmer and more accepting mental state even in the event the birth takes an unexpected turn or involves complications.
• Reduced incidence of instrumental/surgical deliveries (forceps, ventouse, Caesarean sections).
• Fewer breech presentations or other complications.
• No depression of respiratory or circulatory functions in mother or child.
• No interference with normal mechanisms of labour.

Post Birth

• Promotes higher Apgar score.
• Reduced use of pain medication means reduction of
  undesirable post-operative effects for mother and baby.
• Shorter hospital stay and quicker postnatal recovery.
• Reduced incidence of post-natal depression.
• Helps bonding of mother and baby.
• Calmer, better adjusted baby which feeds and sleeps
  better due to its gentle passage into his/her new world.
• Promotes lactation.
• Cope more easily with family life (like getting easily
  back to sleep during those disturbed nights…).
  

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