Tag: <span>birth</span>

What is the Fetus Ejection Reflex and is it real?

In Pregnancy/Postpartum by Emily Tran / April 6, 2017

By Katie Hunter   “In the wild, mother and young have a better chance of survival if the mother can regulate labor so that the young are born in safe, quiet surroundings.” –Niles Newton, behavioral scientist and professor at Northwestern University circa 1987   Before I explain what all of this means… let’s go over […]

Coached Pushing vs. Maternal Pushing

In Pregnancy/Postpartum by Emily Tran / December 17, 2015

Last winter a patient of mine, who we’ll call Sarah, shared her birth story with me. She was in the hospital laboring with her first child and everything was progressing as planned. Sarah started to develop strong urges to push and instinctively started to bear-down. The nurse in the room noticed what she was doing […]

Skip to content