Birth Coach

Feel safe with a birth coach

At Liv Hospital, our birth coaches work to support the mother during the birth process. Our birth coaches plan all the details of the birth down to the finest detail and inform the mother. They are with the mother from the beginning to the end of the birth. They support the mother’s choices. They help them understand general hospital procedures and make informed decisions. Physically comforts the mother in the hospital during various stages of labor. Acts as an intermediary in her communication with the people around her. It helps the mother to maintain the tranquility she needs. It increases the mother’s self-confidence during this intense experience; it makes her realize that everything is going well when everything is going well. It supports the expectant father and guides him to participate in the birth experience as much as he wants.

Who is a birth coach?

A birth coach is a person who helps to protect the sacred and intimate space that a woman in labor needs. More professionally, a birth coach is a trained professional who provides physical, emotional and informational support to the mother before, during and immediately after the birth. With a birth coach, pregnant women feel safer and adapt more successfully to changing family dynamics. For example, they receive the baby care, diseases, nutrition and sleep trainings that a postpartum mother needs most, and become aware of safe motherhood.

What are the duties of a birth coach?

To accompany the mother during pregnancy; to ensure a healthy pregnancy by providing nutrition, breathing training, pilates and yoga classes. In the second stage, it is to support mothers during the birth process and trauma with massage-thermal applications, meditation and other techniques. It is never her duty to interfere with the doctor and the way of birth, to direct, or to go against the hospital rules. The third stage is to provide education on breast milk and nutrition, breastfeeding and baby care during the puerperium.

What are the advantages of having a birth coach accompany the birth process?

• Correct breathing, correct pushing, using the diaphragm, correct positions increase the likelihood of a shorter and less complicated birth. 
• On an individual level, the mother’s negative thoughts about childbirth decrease. She learns to trust herself, her baby and her body. She uses the physical exercises she has learned, such as breathing exercises and yoga, in every aspect of her life to maintain a healthy life. 
• Fathers are included in the birth process and the most basic psychological infrastructure of the mother, father and baby triad is created.
• Pregnant women who have received training have very important awareness reflected on the staff during the delivery room process. 
• Instead of being afraid, shouting and getting tired, mothers send oxygen to their babies through breathing exercises and deep relaxation methods and help the cervix to open and the labor to progress spontaneously by staying calm. 
• When they feel or are informed that something is wrong in the current process, they prepare to welcome their babies, knowing that they should not be afraid and that all interventions to be made are in favor of them and their baby.
• Having a professional guide who will encourage the mother, ensure that the environment is calm, work as a team with the doctor and inform the family helps the birth to take place easily and in a shorter time. 
• The expectant mother is more likely to trust her midwife, whom she trusts to be a professional during the birth. A trusting mother is relieved of stress. The stress-free mother focuses only on her baby and not on external events; she dreams, does her best and reaches a happy ending.

What does a doula involved in your birth do?

• Inform you about your options and support your choices as you plan your birth.
• She will be with you from the beginning to the end of your birth. 
• Help you understand general hospital procedures and help you make informed decisions. 
• Physically relax you at home and in the hospital during the various stages of labor.
• For example, by giving special massages to help you get into the most comfortable and beneficial positions for you.
• By remaining calm and calm during this intense experience, she boosts your self-confidence and makes you realize that everything is going well when everything is going well.
•  Support your partner and help him/her participate in your birth experience as much as he/she wants.