
Preparing for Birth
Clip: Season 11 Episode 1105 | 1m 28sVideo has Closed Captions
Teddy advises a client and her partner on what to expect during labor and childbirth.
Teddy advises a client and her partner on what to expect during labor and childbirth.
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Preparing for Birth
Clip: Season 11 Episode 1105 | 1m 28sVideo has Closed Captions
Teddy advises a client and her partner on what to expect during labor and childbirth.
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- Yeah, 'cause you, what, 31, 31 weeks, right, this week?
- 34.
- Thirty what?
(client laughs) Man.
- Everybody good.
- Yeah, time went by.
I don't know why I thought we was at 31 weeks.
I don't know why.
- Whatever you tell me to do today is gonna be done until, you know, he's here.
- Yeah.
- All right, I'm focused.
- Listen, that's all I can ask for.
- Okay.
- That's all I can ask for.
This is what I tell people.
Early labor, when you here, whenever you call me saying, "Oh, this is going on," or whatever, if you can, try to rest, 'cause when we in active labor, that's when we gonna wanna be walking around, be moving in different labor positions, you know, stuff like that.
You know, you'll have it like this, and you'll get into a squatting position, and, you know, you'll have to just get a good base, and you'll just be like, you know, holding her up, basically.
- Oh, so she'll be- - Yeah, so, yeah, so she gonna, like, actually- - Wait, no, not on me.
- No, it's on you.
No, she gonna lean on you.
Like, you gotta lean back, 'cause you gotta support her weight, 'cause she gonna be holding right here.
- All right.
- So yeah, you gonna be holding like that, and you'll get down into a squatting position.
So, like, yeah, have you- - You got me, babe?
- Yeah, I got you.
- (laughs) Like this?
- And so, yeah.
And like that, and then you'll be able, you could go as low or as high as you need to be.
You could, like, scoot back some or scoot up some.
You know, 'cause y'all in this together, you know what I'm saying?
That's both of y'all baby in there, so, y'all will be able to, you know, come together and do that, you know?
- Okay, okay.
- Yeah.
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