My favourite Pushing Positions as a Labour & Delivery Nurse 🤰🤱 Cannot be taken as medical advice. #labourandbirth #birth #pushingpower #pushingpositions #midwife #doula #epidural #unmedicatedlabor #unmedicatedchildbirth #childbirth #labouranddeliverynurse #nurse #nicu #newborn #firsttimemom #momtobe #pregnant #pregnancy #postpartum #pushing #handandknees #breastfeeding #labourstory | Nurse Sydney

😩”No one told me how to PUSH!!” Common words after birth from #firsttimemom.👍🏻PUSHING is PHYSICS‼️Stack your diaphragm over your pelvic floor and push towards the extreme rectal pressure. That is your baby’s head causing the extreme rectal pressure. (Your baby does not come out of your rectum.) 🌹The vagina will open up downwards as baby head moves down and out, directly below your body. The vagina aligns itself directly under your diaphragm and pelvic floor. The baby’s head presses the colon

As a labor nurse (aka anecdotally speaking), I have seen delayed pushing or laboring down be incredibly effective and helpful - especially when that epidural is heavy, baby’s station is still higher, and there is no urge to push present. Equally so, I have helped manage labors where it felt like it was time for baby to deliver, and the sooner the pushing began, the better. If you get to this point in your birth, I hope you have providers who can explain pros/cons of all of it specific to your si

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