The 3 Stages of Birth: First Stage + Transition, Pushing and the Placenta

Pregnancy & Birth Made Easy

My Essential Birth

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4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Perhaps you've heard of the stages of birth or labor before, and maybe you haven't, but once you understand what they are and how to tell when you've reached each stage, it will make a huge impact on how you and your partner work through the process of labor. This episode breaks down these highlights into what's happening in each stage as well as what you will feel or notice as you reach and move through them. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @myessentialbirth and for even more great in...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Essential Birth podcast. I'm Courtney and I'm Stephanie and we're professional
0:05.5	doulas, childbirth educators and the creators of My Essential Birth, the holistic, empowering,
0:11.3	online childbirth education course helping mothers everywhere confidently achieve their best
0:16.3	birth. So join us each week as we share tips and advice for all things pregnancy, birth and beyond.
0:22.2	Be sure to subscribe to the podcast so that you can be the first to get new content.
0:27.2	And head over to www.mysentialbirth.com for more information about our birth course and to join a community of Mamas just like you.
0:39.5	We want to give a shout out to the reviewer of the week, Stephanie, I don't like you right now. Waser Dufaggigolo. Oh, there was a P at the end.
0:47.3	Try that again. Wasser Diffaglipkolop. There we go. Feeling so encouraged and informed. First time mom preparing for an
0:57.3	unmedicated birth center birth, these ladies are so fun and have helped me feel so prepared for
1:02.6	what's to come. My husband and I have enjoyed listening together and are so excited to get
1:07.3	enrolled in the birth course. Thank you, thank you, thank you for all you ladies do. You are very welcome and I apologize that we slaughtered whatever your username was.
1:16.9	Send us a DM. Tell us if you do that on purpose. Also, I have to, I would love to welcome you
1:21.6	into the birth course, but we definitely don't know your name. So we're going to have to give us
1:26.4	a little shout out and say, hey, you've made my. And this is me. I'm in the birth course now. Anyway, we're happy. Thank you
1:32.4	for your review. We're glad it's helped you and your husband. And we're wishing you all the best
1:36.3	at your birth center birth. Okay, so we thought that a really good topic for you guys would be the
1:41.7	stages of labor. And I think this kind of came up because as we were
1:44.3	asking the community questions and Instagram and things, a lot of the responses that we were
1:49.6	getting back or questions that we get on top of what we're talking about have to do with,
1:55.0	but how do I know I'm in this stage or what does this stage look like? And so I think what we want
2:00.4	to go over today is just kind of
2:01.8	the ideas of, okay, there are different stages of birth and we're going to tell you what those are.
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