Don't Push

10 Lessons from giving 5 births

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Learn as much as you can before you arrive at birth.
Explore your fears, answer your questions, and practice imagining a positive birth experience.
Think carefully about who you want beside you during birth—and who will help you afterward.
Stay active, explore different positions, and learn to work with the process of birth.
Yifat describes contractions as waves and shares the visualization and breathing technique she used to work through them.
A personal reflection on the unusual, altered and unexpected experiences that can accompany labor.
A personal account of the final stage of labor and the moment the baby's head arrives.
The first moments after birth, including feeding, skin-to-skin contact and settling down with your newborn.
A personal reflection on the emotional changes that can happen in the days after birth.
Why Yifat believes new mothers should resist the temptation to immediately return to normal life and give themselves time to rest.