Miracle Of Birth Video Analysis

Lea, 37 weeks gestation had an induced labor with Pitocin and she received a cervical ripening suppository. For pain relief the nurses gave her a back massage, but that was not helping her pain enough to make her comfortable so Lea requested an epidural and at 8:00AM received it. Epidural is becoming a more popular pharmacological method used during labor to relieve pain for the mother. An epidural is a more invasive pharmacological pain relief measure compared to others and numbs the pain felt in labor to possibly eliminate almost all of the discomfort felt throughout the labor process (Sanders, 2014). However, just like with the amniotomy that Heather received, an epidural also has several advantages and disadvantages/risks. Besides pain
Her contractions were 5 minutes apart and she requested epidural for pain relief and also received a massage. She received IV pitocin and she encountered a long latent phase, therefore she spent some time in her bathtub at home. Once Jackie finally gave birth to her beautiful newborn baby, immediate skin to skin care also known as Kangaroo Care was implemented. Kangaroo care involves skin to skin contact between the mother and the newborn as often as possible to facilitate bonding and attachment, although it is more often performed with the mother and the baby, the father can also participate as well. Kangaroo care has tremendous benefits on the overall well-being of both the mother and the baby. In the mother, it decreases the risk of postpartum depression and promotes positive feelings toward their newborn. The breastfeeding and close contact that is involved with kangaroo care improves the mothers feelings towards the baby, makes the mother more sensitive and attached to the baby and promotes positive loving behaviors to her infant. In the newborn baby, kangaroo care decreases the incidence of having thermoregulation problems, problems with breastfeeding and an unstable heart rate, there is a decreased risk of apnea, and bradycardia and it promotes a faster/healthier growth rate in the infant. In both the mother and the infant, the benefits include a shorter hospital stay (faster discharge) and the bonding and attachment with the mother leads to less time that the infant spends crying and more time that the infant spends sleeping (Johnson, 2013). When I become a nurse I will make sure to strongly encourage Kangaroo care and educate patients on the tremendous benefits associated with this