What Are the Most Common Misconceptions About Labor? (0:42)
Many women hope for short, sweet and easy labor. But giving birth typically takes hours, and often isn't so easy. Watch this video featuring nurse midwife Paula Greer to learn the truth about other common misconceptions about labor.
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As a practitioner, I see many women who think that their very first contractions which are actually Brampton hicks contractions just practicing for the big event are the real event and they come rushing in to have their baby. This is not necessarily what you need to do, labor is a long process.
Too many of my clients love the baby channel but that's [xx] it down. You see five minutes of labor on the baby channel and a normal baby can take any where from 18 to 24 hours. That's a big misconception that it's short, sweet and then it's going to be easy at it is on T. V. Remember they call it labor because it's work, but it is a labor of love.
Paula Greer is a graduate of the nurse midwifery program at Georgetown University and currently working for Baltimore Washington Medical Center in a faculty practice.
