Ways Coaches Can Help
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Ways Coaches Can Help
During Pushing
In Late Labor/ Transition
Ways Coaches
Can Help
In Active Labor
In Early Labor
Before Labor
Be prepared
Know what the laboring woman wants before labor begins
Be sensitive
Remind her to empty her bladder
Remind her to rest
Don't disappear
Try not to make her feel watched
Don't push medication
Touch her
Keep her comfortable
Encourage movement
Be flexible
Be upbeat
Breathe with her
Time the contractions
Anticipate her needs
Alert the medical staff when she express a need to push
Recognize signs of panic
Don't take it personally
Discourage inhibition
Stay very close
Resist the impulse to chant and cheer
Offer encouragement about the things you can see that she can't
Follow the medical staff's cues
