How To Deliver A Baby At Home

Cover yourself and your baby with a dry blanket.

How to deliver a baby at home. Once the shoulders are out keep supporting the baby and lift it very slightly toward the mother s stomach. Deal with the head. It shows an actual live birth.

Leave it attached to your baby until help arrives. The baby will turn as it is delivered. Once the baby s entire head is out do the following steps.

If the umbilical cord is wrapped around the baby s neck don t worry about it. The film does a good job reviewing the basics we just went over but then it goes one step further. If you deliver at home labor management might differ from what you experience in a hospital setting.

Keep the baby warm. If it s loose though and the baby is delivering fine there s no need to worry about it. Rest your baby on your tummy skin to skin and warm him with your body heat.

How to deliver a baby from a 1966 california state police education film nsfw back in 1966 the california state police created a film to educate officers on how to deliver a baby in a pinch. The rest of the body will come out easily. Fotostorm getty images steps for delivering a baby go to the hospital as the uterus contracts to push the baby out of the birth canal mom should feel pain and pressure.

The baby will be slippery. With the next push one shoulder will emerge then the other. During labor at home your health care provider will periodically rather than continuously monitor your temperature pulse blood pressure and your baby s heart rate.