Doctor taking care of the baby
The way most babies are born is a vaginal delivery. It has three stages.
Stage one is the shortening and opening of the cervix. In stage two the baby drops down head first so it can be born. In stage three the placenta is delivered.
The placenta is the part that gave the baby nutrients before it was born.
Soon before birth, the baby's head is pressed against the mother's bone. The head rotates ninety degrees in a position so it faces the rectum. The uterine opens and closes every six minutes, getting bigger after each dilation.
Most doctors recommend the mother and baby spend two hours together bonding right after birth. Skin to skin contact makes breast feeding better and cuts crying.
And these are facts and stages about how babies are born.
Newborn bonding with his mother
Newboen baby getting held
Mother holding newborn baby
Websites about Childbirth:
Books about Childbirth
The Facts of Life by Jonathan Miller and David Pelham
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