Reminding the expectant fathers at home in a heavy responsibility, not only for companionship of pregnancy, not beyond help housework, but also prevail Mami exercises an important lesson in life: Childbirth! Tell you about Lamaze Breathing Method that expectant fathers could learn more and practice more at home that could help childbirth smoothly.

Lamaze Breathing Method

Lamaze Breathing Method is known as psychological preventative child birth preparation method.  After 1960, this breathing method has spread from the United States to Asia, and immediately aroused the attention of many experts in obstetrics as well as gynecology. This breathing method has been finished by Dr. Lamaze, physician in 1951, so called Lamaze Breathing.

The breathing method, beginning from early pregnancy until delivery, through neuromuscular control, prenatal and respiratory gymnastics skills training in the learning process, effectively leaving women in childbirth to focus on their breathing control, diverting pain, moderate muscle relaxation, can confidently produce pain during childbirth made ​​to keep calm, to speed up the production process in order to achieve and let the baby could be born purposes.

Basic posture

In the living room floors were covered with a blanket or bed exercises, indoor prenatal can play some beautiful music, mothers can choose to sit cross- legged, in the music, mothers let your body completely relaxed.

Different Stage Has Different Method

Lamaze breathing could start from seven months pregnant, but you must continue to practice from prenatal till to the baby birth. The best candidate, of course, is the expectant father will be the best candidate to help the practice.

In practice Lamaze childbirth method, you must first get to know really clear breathing exercise: Take a deep breath, and fully discharge. In all breathing exercises be done once before the beginning and end. Its purpose is to avoid rapid breathing caused by hyperventilation and the fetus with sufficient oxygen.

Exercise can be divided into early childbirth, childbirth and childbirth in the eve of the three phases, each with different methods.

Pre-stage of Childbirth

This phase characteristics: mean cervical thinning, expansion of about 0-4 cm (about two finger widths). The contraction of uterine is 30-60 seconds, and the interval is 5-20 minutes (about 8-9 hours) period.

Breathing techniques: chest and abdomen began to do a slow breathing, about 6-9 times per minute; or whisper light absorption method, about 30-40 times per minute.

Thoracic and abdominal breathing exercise method: uterine contraction, concentration, closed suction, using the nostrils with the most significant deep breath. Mouth is closed, breath and keep the air within the chest and t through the diaphragm into the abdominal cavity, filling the belly bulge, and slowly inhaled air exhaled from the mouth.

Expectant fathers to pay attention to: remind mothers have to each breath slowly, do not hurry.

Interim Childbirth

This stage features: cervix dilates to 4-8 cm (about 2-4 finger widths). The contraction of uterine is 45-75 seconds, and the interval is 2-4 minutes (about 3-4 hours).

Abdominal Deep Breathing Method: lying supine, hands flat sides of the body , closed suction air transport into the abdominal cavity, so that protruding abdomen, chest does not move, then the gas slowly spit from the mouth.

Expectant fathers to pay attention to: remind mothers, should avoid premature hard of cervical swelling, so be breath step by step, and exhale all slowly.

Ready of Birth

This stage features: cervix open, fetus period. The uterine contracts every 60 seconds, and the interval is 2-4 minutes and then shrink.

Breath control techniques: clearance breathing two then inhale, breath stopped, the child began to force launched his legs apart, hands home nest under the knee, elbow outward downward force, forced into the diaphragm and abdominal, repeat Pranayama breath until the contractions stopped. Does not shrink when you take a deep breath and rest, but the contraction force could help the fetus.

Breath Method: mouth closed immediately after deep inspiration, the gas choked, raise the head, so that the chin close to the chest, force the diaphragm downward pressure, such as solutions of the stool sample, so that the pressure generated push the fetus.

Expectant fathers to pay attention to: remind mothers although practice times, but childbirth is inevitable tension, which will also affect the delivery process, it is most important to keep calm and pay attention to breathing.

More Practice Better Effect

Lamaze childbirth breathing stressed childbirth is a normal, natural, healthy process.Through a series of learning and continued practice seem to provide the better emotion, intelligence, psychological and physiological preparation for every expectant mother.

Using Lamaze breathing, mother could fully understand their body changes during childbirth, and the status of the fetus, so as to make the Lamaze childbirth breathing play the biggest role.

To put more afford on practicing the breathing method which could apply to childbirth skillfully. Do not wait to give birth just before rush to go to class.

Expectant father should assist the childbirth to the expectant mothers by learning the breathing method which should study in the hospital. Early awareness and knowledge of the reproductive process, especially timely learning Lamaze childbirth breathing, and be able to master in order to childbirth rationally.