Packing A Hospital Delivery Bag

After the delivery, the heat from the mom’s body can warm the baby and maintains the baby’s body temperature. For instance, when nursing students were at the operating room at Saint Peter’s Hospital during the C-section delivery, as soon as the baby was out, the doctor placed the newborn on the mother’s chest. When the mother was alert and awake during the C-section made it possible for the baby to stay on her chest on the first hours after the birth. It was one of the most beautiful moments in life. Nevertheless, there was another C-section birth of diabetic mother. She was not fully awake during the C-section and the doctor only did not promote skin-to-skin mother and the newborn. The doctors and nurses at Saint Peter’s Hospital support and encourage skin-to-skin for mother and newborn right after the birth if there is no complication on mother or baby or when the condition is possible. Saint Peter’s Hospital has policy for vaginal delivery, “all infants that meet the criteria for initiate skin-to-skin care shall have skin-to-skin care implemented as the standard of care immediately after birth and as needed thereafter regardless of feeding preference”. They promote skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby immediately after delivery. However, mothers and babies have a physiologic need to be together during the minutes, hours, and days following birth, and this time together significantly improves maternal and newborn outcomes.

This essay demonstrates significant factors, a midwife and the women may face within Australian public hospitals. As a midwife the key skills are understanding of what supports and impacts the normal physiological process of labour and birth. This essay will discuss two influencing factors that have a negative effect on the normal progress of labour and birth. This will be seen, firstly by discussing the cultural and environmental impacts of labour and birth. Then, examining how the midwife may best support and facilitate the adverse effects of normal physiological process. This essay also discusses a positive labour and birth environment within the Australian standard model of care.

For any mother the birth of a newborn child can be a challenging experience. As nurses it is part of our job to ensure their experience is positive. We can help do this by providing the information they will need to affective care for their newborn. This information includes topics such as, breastfeeding, jaundice, when to call your doctor and even how to put your baby to sleep. When the parents have an understanding of these topics before discharge it can largely reduce their natural anxiety accompanied with the transition to parenthood. Health teaching for new parents is seen as such an important aspect of care on post-partum floors it is actually a necessary component that needs to be covered before the hospital can discharge the

Providing an effective care and support to the patient and for their babies during labour

Once the patients arrive to the unit, if the person belongs to either scheduled induction or C-Section, they are provided with a delivery room. If the patient does not belong to previously mentioned categories, and about to deliver, she is moved to a delivery room. One final category is, where patients come in because they feel that they are about to be in labor or the patients that experience various pregnancy related complications. These patients are monitored by the nurse, seen by the physician and put under observation. If any of those observation patients are about to go into labor, they will be moved to delivery room. The rest of the patients will be treated and discharged. A quick registration will be done for all patients as soon as they enter the unit. Additional documentation for triaged patients will be done after they are moved to triage. For patients in labor or C-Section, it will be done earliest of patient’s

You must always perform hand hygiene before putting a disposable gown on and after taking it off and placing it in the correct clinical waste bin. Aprons prevent any of your clothing from contaminating food.

Make sure the better care of your self during the first trimester. This is the time when you need to be fit emotionally and physically both. Talk to your friends and the member of the family to be emotionally fit and for the physical fitness intake

For hundred of years, women have wrestled with their womanhood, bodies, and what it means to be a woman in our society. Being a woman comes with a wonderful and empowering responsibility--giving birth. What sets us aside from other countries is that the process and expectations of giving birth has changed in our society; coming from midwifery, as it has always been since the early times, to hospitals where it is now expected to give birth at. Midwifery was a common practice in delivering babies in

2. Overalls (to protect the body from possible exposure / blood borne virus, to also identify area / room of work, see SOP’s, to also prevent outside contamination from everyday clothing)

You will need to bring bedding for an air mattress or cot, towels, personal items and gloves.

Baby wearing is a preferred method of many moms seeking ways to incorporate new babies into their busy lives.  A major benefit of baby wearing is that newborn baby carriers allow mom and baby to bond, leaving baby feeling nurtured while mom carries out her many other calls of duty.  For other moms, baby wearing can be an essential part of life with a high need baby.

According to “Human Sexuality: Diversity in Contemporary America,” women and couples planning the birth of a child have decisions to make in variety of areas: place of birth, birth attendant(s), medication, preparedness classes, circumcision, breast feeding, etc. The “childbirth market” has responded to consumer concerns, so its’ important for prospective consumers to fully understand their options. With that being said, a woman has the choice to birth her child either at a hospital or at home. There are several differences when it comes to hospital births and non-hospital births.

For almost all of the previous 25 years roughly, the knowledge of pregnancy, labor, and delivery has changed little for some women. But change is arriving to the most traditional establishing, the hospital.

Physical safety is especially important for pregnant women, as there is an unborn baby in their womb. One way of keeping clients physically safe is after having blood taken, or injections given, to use sterile needles, and then only use them once and dispose of them straight away. This is so the client does not get infected; throwing the needle away will stop infection spreading and stop it from accidentally piercing someone else’s skin. Another way of keeping clients physically safe is, for example, if the floor is wet and slippery, either dry it up or put up a ‘wet floor’ sign. Otherwise, a pregnant lady could slip and injure herself or her baby. Also, an example is on higher floors, if the antenatal ward is on a high floor, windows should only open slightly. This is so nobody can fall out of the window and seriously injure themselves. Hygiene is also an important physical life quality factor, because if health professionals (or clients) have poor hygiene, diseases could be spread throughout the ward and hospital. Ways for the professionals to keep hygienic is washing and sanitising their hands before coming into contact with the client. This stops spreading diseases around and also stops infections going into the client if they are using needles or syringes. For the clients to keep hygienic there are hand sanitizers in the ward for them to use. Also, on every floor there are

Gathering a maternal history is a significant phase of the first antenatal appointment. This allows discoveries about many aspects of the woman and her life. Information gathered by the midwife will include family health history, maternal and paternal, as many issues connected with the father have now been discovered. () Previous pregnancies, this includes information about miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, fetal demise after birth, previous caesarian sections, place of previous births, gestation, gender, birth weight, previous multiple pregnancies, labour, birth, and postnatal details. This will give information about how the following pregnancy might develop and