Home birth and post partum essentials (+ natural alternatives)
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- Are you wondering what you need for a home birth? Here are the essentials for both a home birth as well as post partum care including some natural alternatives to the products that are usually provided by hospitals & insurance companies. Oh and make sure to watch even if you have a hospital birth because there are some tips for post partum healing and nursing you don't want to miss either!
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I’ve had 5 children 4 at home. You don’t need buckets!!!!! I mean you can but water at hand like a bath is good. I had plenty of old towels and sheets to lay on floor. Lavender to burn. Salt for my bath after giving birth. And the few days after. My down below region healed in no time. I was very lucky to have those protective sheets given me, they were for my bed after as you leak a lot of blood mucus after. They did use a cardboard kidney dish to catch placenta and yes rubbish bags. I gave birth on floor squatting so we just cleaned up and threw! X
Ah I love this comment! So no nonsense :) I was so overwhelmed by the list when it was given to me and honestly skipped a few things lol, added in the nice things just to make less clinical lol. Apart from the birthing pool we don't have a bath so the buckets will be useful, salt in bath is a great one too! Wow 4 home births, that is so cool!
Fertility Homeopath yes and different each time but more natural much calmer and after it’s all over in your own bed to rest up with bubba! I honestly didn’t need lots of bits I’d say the old sheets towels to cover floor essential, and the huge pads essential, and the padded sheets for your bed defo. Just for first day or two. A onesie with opening front (zip/buttons) good to slip on after birth too. With fluffy socks Just to get comfy and easy access to breast. As you get cold after as body is a little shocked xxxx
Calendula and hypericum tinture saved my life after tearing with my last birth 🙌🏻 amazing also for the healing the belly button of the baby.
Watching from America and I’m SHOCKED that your insurance covers all of this!!!! Insurance in America rarely covers home birth and when they do, I still think the moms have to pay out of pocket for their birth kits! We just spent $200+ on our kit and we still have to pay our midwife $4k 😳
Things are SO different in the US for sure... its pretty special the way things still are here, but then the research and statistics of healthy and live births supports it. You are incredible for making this financial sacrifice!!
Yeah, I just paid US $36 in shipping charges for my birth kit, plus the cost of the kit!
That’s why I’m going unassisted. 😂
Went unassisted, done it twice now and it’s easy peasy. Babies 5 months old now. Cost me 300$
I was thinking the same thing. I am currently TTC and I would love to have a home birth when I finally do get pregnant, but idk if it will be financially feasible.
You look great! So excited for you! Praying for a safe delivery ♥
Thank you so much Emily! 💜
I am allergic to wool. May have to improvise there. Interesting to hear how Netherlands differs from America. I am glad home birthing is growing exponentially here though due to crazy Covid restrictions. Mothers should never go through birth with their face covered or be separated from their baby! I think they are awakening to what birth is really about.
About to have my second home birth in july :) so excited
Relied entirely on a tens machine and hypnobirthing. Plan to do the same again.
But its amazing what you forget in a space of 2 and a half years
Hoping to fall pregnant soon and I enjoy watching all your videos! The ones about your birth are exciting to me and I love learning all you have to share. Thank you! Blessings to you in Christ!
Learned so much in comparison to the kits in US! Ordered some healing wool online all the way from Germany and the calendula tincture will need to get from my ND! Very fun to learn something new. I’m having baby #3 at home and so fun to have some new goodies to use.
Wish you a safe and smooth delivery...I will pray for you... I am waiting for your natural birth preparation video.. I am now 21 weeks..I've been watching your amazing helpful videos since I was trying to conceive...done almost all of your advices.. please try to make the birth video before November...I know there're lots on your plate to do...but I believe you're such a super powerful person ❤️❤️❤️wish you and the baby will be healthy
Thanks for sharing! Just got my birth kit from my midwife, as for the menstrual pads... I felt the same about some generic bleached pad but.... the pads she gave me were specific to make sure I wasn't bleeding through one within 1/2 hour. She wanted me to use those specific ones as a means of measurement to make sure there is no hemorrhaging. I imagine after a few days or a week I will switch to natural maternity pads, or cloth ones
Ps YES I do feel guilty giving away things I would not agree to use on or in my body. But you are right. For other people having SOMEthing is better than not having anything to use at all, or not enough. ❤
You are the cutest! I love your videos. Your voice alone is so relaxing, that by itself is going to mean you'll be such a great mom! can't wait to see your little baby arrive!
Hope you doing well and staying safe..........
I am 17 weeks pregnant now and I wholeheartedly want a Homebirth! I am having trouble finding midwives in my area, Sacramento, California; it’s making me so sad. I fear I might have to go to a birthing center, or worse...a hospital. In the case that I do find a midwife, this video was very helpful.
Oh I hope you find a midwife too!! So sorry it's so hard for you to find one. Have you tried finding one through a doula? And congratulations on 17 weeks! Yay so excited for you!!! And if you end up needing to go to a birth centre or even a hospital make sure to get yourself a doula as an advocate for you and read Ina May's guide to childbirth if you haven't already. Preparation will make all the difference. I have shot parts of a video on how I prepare for natural childbirth which you may like and that should go up soon if baby doesn't decide to come early!
Yes same here, I live in Michigan and insurance doesn't cover home births, I'm paying $4,200 for my midwife and prenatal/postnatal care.
Its definitely not as common in America. However, i am very excited for you and praying it goes smoothly! I just found out we are expecting baby #5, and we are thrilled! I am not having a homebirth, but i am having a waterbirth with a midwife
Congratulations that is so cool! It must be so neat being a veteran childbirth wise and just knowing what will come and how you will handle it. Waterbirth sounds fantastic. I hope you have a great pregnancy, I'm sure it's not easy when you already have 4 other little humans to take care of!
So excited for you! Your homebirth kit is seems more extensive than mine was! Hoping to go through this all again in the next year! Don't feel bad to donate what you won't use! My midwife accepted extras to give to other patients.
How neat that you still were able to pick up on some new items, hoping you'll need them soon lovely 💜
Hope you doing well and staying safe..........
The bed pad protector are for fluid during birth. You lay on them so the fluid does get everywhere
Jess Rebadow or after birth :p when your pad leaks through in the night or when you are relaxing with baby in bed for the first days :p
A friend of mine had a home birth and loved it. I was worried sick for her though!
Aw you're a good friend! I can imagine being worried when it's not something that is common around you! So cool you you now have an experience close by that's positive!
Ah how exciting! It's so close now! Hope you're feeling good during your final stages and enjoying the process 💖 x
Thanks so much Rebecca! 💜
p.s. I am American but I wouldn't make fun of how you say aluminum (although I might have a chuckle to myself about it!). You do you, you live over that way and that's how it's said, so go for it! :)
hi! if those were incontinence bed pads that you showed in the beginning, they are super helpful for sleeping on at night! sometimes I would leak blood and I didn't have to worry about getting it on my bed or on my rocking chair when I would feed my babe!
That totally makes sense yes!!
Thank you for the video! I am due January 4th 2020. I will look for calendula! We used to grow it in our garden but the chickens ate it all 😂
Congratulations!! 2020 baby! 🎉 lol re the Calendula 😂 your chickens know what's good for them huh!
Hope you doing well and staying safe..........
That was indeed interesting! I have never hear about this Tens before!
I have seen a ton of videos about "essentials for birth", home of hospital, of course mostly from UK and USA, and yours was so different! I guess many of those things in other countries the midwives bring with them instead or people just don't give much focus on...
I am 33 weeks now. I will give birth in the "birth center" part of my hospital, if everything goes fine with the natural birth. :) I had also the option in my country for a home birth, but I leave in an apartment with a lot of neighbors to hear me making noises, I just would not feel comfortable myself... :D
Yes! That's why I thought it would be fun to do this video as I agree I hadn't seen anything like these items. Where do you live? Birthing centre sounds wonderful too, you're closing in on your due date too huh! Yeah I'm a little concerned for my neighbours too lol but 1 is often gone and the other seems a bit deaf 😂 TENS is apparently fantastic if I have to believe my patients... and I do 😁
@@FertilityHomeopath I live in Denmark. Most of my danish friends had home births and they were really happy with the whole process! They really never seemed worry about their neighbors, maybe it is just something in my head :D Are you setting a birth pool?
I just check the pain relief list in the birth center and they do have TENS.! Yey! :D
Oh Denmark yes makes sense! How wonderful that your birth centre turns out to have a TENS :) yes I have set up a birthing pool that I rented, I'll show it in one of my next videos!
I loved the tip about the wool! Do you know if I can order that on Amazon? Also, loved the post partum devotional booklet. How special!
Yup! I searched on Amazon doe healing wool and they do have it. I love that you love the post partum devotional too 💜🙏
@@FertilityHomeopath thanks for the tip! 🤩😍
Hi Lovely! How can you avoid tearing? Do you have any tips? Thanks!❤️
Great question! I'm going to cover it in one of my next videos on how I prepare for a natural birth!
Hope you doing well and staying safe..........
Beautiful explanation... Congratulations in advance dear doc
Thank you Jahan 💜
the many pads are for anything you might need for a mess...on a yoga ball, on all fours, literally anywhere you are laboring bc you keep leaking after the membranes have been ruptured. It would be kind of icky to sit in that and then the spread of bacteria would increase if you are moving around a lot (which you tend to do bc it keeps your mind busy)
Totally makes sense now why there would be so many then 🙈 I'll put it on the list for hubby to think of pulling out as yes I intend to be moving loads!
@@FertilityHomeopath Also, they're super helpful right after delivery (when things tend to get messy) to minimize the effect on your sheets!
This was super helpful!! Also pretty sure American insurance sucks 😂😂
Hello Ingefleur💕
This was an exciting video thank you for posting. This is cool to see that ins companies actually send stuff for home birth. I'm going to check mine and see if they encourage home birth but I'm in th he U.S. so we don't hear much about it. I was curious how you will use the herb and salt mixture in the plastic bin? Will you keep the herbs loose? Or find something to steep them in first then sit?
Hope you doing well and staying safe..........
Saying aluminum the way you say it makes sense. We Americans say it different but we don't follow the phonetic pronunciation. Which growing up made no sense to me. :D
Congrats lovely😘😘
please look up Lotus birthing, it is not good to cut the cord so early, when the blood is still transferring from the plancetal , there are 30% blood left in the placental when it cuts immediately, this is one reasons cause baby unwell and low immune systerm
ice cream.....lots of ice cream needed for energy.
Oooh good one!! I'll stock up!
First thank you for the wonderful tips on your videos that helped us to get pregnant all this time.. because of your tips and explanation I gained the knowledge that I need and luckily I got pregnant last April but I had a miscarriage last month, my baby don't have a heartbeat at 10 weeks I don't know what went wrong to my body, I feel like its my fault that my baby died because of me.
Oh Wheng, I am so sorry about your loss that is horrible 💜💜💜 I'm so glad that you are part of my community though so you can learn more about how of COURSE it isn't your fault and what you can do to improve your chances of holding on to a pregnancy. But first mourn your loss momma, this baby will always be yours even if you will not carry it in your arms on this earth. I've got several video s already up and to come on pregnancy loss, check the play list:
Miscarriages & fertility: th-cam.com/play/PLVI_vcHa8lH5EqB-iK6vW8SpVVlXt6GhZ.html
Inge, so happy for you! I love keeping up with your pregnancy progress, especially being 11 weeks myself now. Hoping you have a safe and easy delivery. Ps. I think I'll whip out the Tens sooner, my back is already a mess :)
11 weeks!! That's great news!! 🎉 yes whip out that TENS! I have a friend that still uses it for her back while her kids are young teenagers :) thanks for following my journey I appreciate it so much!! The bonus videos sure are for my special viewers like yourself 💜
I would use a survival blanket instead of aluminum foil to keep from cutting yourself or baby. That’s great insurance, what’s it called
You should get a water proof zippered mattress cover
What can I do to bring on my period I took pregnancy test and all were negative I just want my period to start so I can continue to try getting pregnant
Exercise always helps me! I find the more I do the better, gets blood circulating and things moving along. 😊
Ok thank you
I took a epsom salt bath worked for me?
Eshia S ok ty maybe I will try that
Are planned c-section really bad?
Have been researching while ttc and there are only 2 midwifes in my area in Germany who do home births. Germany f*cked up because of the extremely expensive insurances midwifes have to have now. Maybe soon there will be no free midwifes anymore and you have to go to the hospital. Well, at least every pregnant woman has the right of having a midwife (even if you are having an early misscarriage right now) for free through health insurance. Yay for mandatory health insurance!
Pushing nonsense with essential oils. The tubs are for barfing which happens often when you're just about to give birth.
Hope you doing well and staying safe..........