This visual video is a must-see for all expectant mothers.
You can read as many books as you like, watch hundreds of videos about childbirth and even experience it yourself, but you still don’t understand how such a serious process is going. But if you understand, there is a chance that everything will go much easier for the mother and the unborn baby. This is what the doctor and presenter of courses for pregnant women Liz Chalmers decided to take care of, who, by the way, is also an experienced mother – she is raising four children.
In a very simple and accessible way, she explained the whole process of childbirth on a simple ping-pong ball (he played the role of a baby) and a balloon (aka the uterus, and his tail is the cervix).
So, first, Liz puts the ball into the ball, and then inflates the “womb” by half. When the ball rolls to the neck of the balloon, it closes the “passage”, preventing the balloon from deflating.
“Now, if I squeeze the ball, the neck does not change in size and does not open,” explains Liz. – This is how training fights look like, or Braxton Hicks fights. They happen towards the end of pregnancy, but do not affect the cervix in any way. “
“The real fights start when we push the ball from above,” Liz changes tactics. – In this part of the uterus, real contractions occur. The muscles on the top become shorter and thicker, they squeeze the uterus, pulling its walls. “
The more Liz pressed on the top of the ball, the shorter the neck became. However, it still hasn’t been revealed.
“This is how the first contractions take place. The neck should first become shorter, and only then it will begin to open, ”explains Liz and continues to press harder.
“Just breathe, breathe out slowly, smoothly,” the doctor teaches.
And now the “head”, or the ball, is already visible. The last effort is trying. And the ball pops out of the ball. The baby was born!
The birth video has garnered hundreds of enthusiastic comments on the internet.
“Thank you for that! I am 35 weeks old and this is my third pregnancy. But I only now realized the difference between training and real fights, ”one of the grateful mothers wrote in the comments.