Lesson 4 — Hormones and the Birthing Process


Get Focused


Today, women have many choices of ways to deliver their babies. Birth with a midwife at home, birth with a midwife at a birthing centre, birth in a hospital, birthing into water, and many more options are  possibilities. No matter the woman's birth plan choice, when the birthing process begins, there is no going back.

The following focusing questions are addressed in this lesson:

  • What triggers the birthing process, and what are the stages of the birthing process?
  • What controls lactation?
 
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