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Cervical dilation. It’s often believed that that once you’ve reached full dilation, your caregiver will instruct you to start pushing with all your might. But it's actually best to avoid "coached pushing" by anyone attending your birth. During the final stages of (unmedicated) labor a birthing woman will experience the Fetel Ejection Reflex. By working with your body and only pushing when YOU feel the urge, you’re able to better utilize your energy and work with your breath. Your tissues can stretch more slowly and you drastically reduce the risk of tearing. Birth is very intricate series of events with each one triggering the next. Imagine if someone started screaming at you to “PUSH-PUUUSH” as soon as you sat on the toilet for a bowel movement. It wouldn’t be helpful... because sometimes you just need a moment to get things moving, right? So even if your cervix has reached 10cms, it’s not uncommon to need a moment of rest before you “get the urge”. Only your body possesses the intrinsic wisdom of knowing when everything within you is perfectly aligned to finally push your baby into the world.
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Vernix is so beneficial for baby's skin!

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1. It's protection. When a baby's skin in still developing in the womb, it's covered with a thick, white layer called vernix caseosa. Its main jobs? To help protect delicate skin from the acidic quality of the amniotic fluid and to help keep infection at bay.
2. It's a moisturiser! The thick substance acts as a sealant, shielding the baby's skin from the drying effects of amniotic fluid. Without vernix, your precious newborn would look like a big ol' wrinkled prune.
3. It's also a l**e. That slippery slime does double duty as a lubricant, helping your baby slide out of the birth canal a bit easier.
4. It's a baby's first blanket. The coating is also as a baby warmer, insulating her body and maintaining a proper—and comfortable—temperature in utero.
5. It's only human. People are the only animals whose newborns are coated in vernix.
6. It muffles sound. Although your baby-to-be can start to hear your voice by about week 25, sound is pretty muffled because his ears are covered with sound-shielding vernix.
7. Sometimes it's not there. If your baby is overdue, the vernix may be scant or missing entirely. The reason: It was likely already absorbed in the amniotic fluid.
8. You can leave it be. Don't be so quick to wipe it off your newborn's skin. Research shows that removing vernix is not necessary for hygienic reasons, and leaving it may even provide antibacterial promotion and wound healing. The World Health Organization advises delaying baby's first bath for 24 hrs.
9. It's not always white. If a newborn's vernix is not the expected creamy white, but a yellowish brown or green tinge instead, that's a good indicator that baby already passed meconium (aka the first p**p). And it's a good indicator that perhaps you should wipe this type of vernix off.
10. It lingers in folds. Don't be surprised if you find this sticky substance hidden in baby's under-diaper nooks and crannies. Vernix likes to hide in the folds of the va**na for several days or even weeks. Gently wipe it away or simply leave it.

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