Page 13 - The Doula Hub - Flip book_Neat

V A G I N A L C H I L D B I R T H

• Involuntary process
• Think about pulling a turtle neck jumper

over your head
• Movement can only happen during a

contraction
• The whole second stage can last quite
some time, look at how much baby has
to do.
• Hormones present - Oxytocin causes
contractions of the active segment,
prostaglandin helps relax the passive
segment muscles
• Your baby’s face usually faces your back
• Two steps forward one step back
• Once the head is out the body has to

move and rotate to for the shoulders
through
• Foetal ejection reflex – backwards
vomiting