14.8: Key Terms
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- birth plan
- form of communication between a birthing person, their support people, and the care team they have chosen for their birth outlining their wishes for the labor and birth
- childbirth education
- becoming educated in the process of pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum and newborn care
- deepening
- relaxation to the point where the birthing person is in a limp, almost anesthetized state
- directing
- consciously organizing one’s body prior to and during an action so that the head leads the body’s movement
- inhibiting
- conscious act of preventing oneself from rushing into an action without thoughtful consideration of the body
- physiologic birth
- birth that occurs vaginally and without medical intervention