English Vocabulary - Labour and Childbirth - English Like A Native

Summary

In this engaging video, Anna English dives into the terminology surrounding childbirth and labor, providing a comprehensive guide to the vocabulary used during pregnancy and delivery. She begins with terms like 'having a baby,' 'giving birth,' and 'birth delivery,' explaining the medical and everyday language differences. Anna covers various methods of delivery, including natural and caesarean, common terms such as 'full-term,' 'preterm,' and 'overdue,' and processes like 'labor induction.' She also touches on pain management techniques, possible complications, and relevant medical personnel, making it an educational resource for anyone looking to learn more about childbirth.

Highlights

• Anna explains childbirth vocabulary in a fun and accessible way 🎓.
• Learn about different childbirth methods: natural, water birth, and c-section 🤰.
• Get insights on medical terms like 'full-term' and 'preterm' 🚼.
• Explore labor induction techniques, such as membrane sweep and hormone drip 💉.
• Understand the role of medical professionals in childbirth 🤓.

Key Takeaways

• Discover essential vocabulary for discussing childbirth and labor with ease 🤰.
• Learn the difference between having a baby, giving birth, and delivering a baby 🍼.
• Understand the various types of childbirth, including natural birth and c-sections 🤱.
• Familiarize yourself with medical terms like full-term, preterm, and overdue babies 🤓.
• Explore pain relief options and what happens during labor 🚼.

Overview

Anna English takes viewers on an educational journey through the world of childbirth vocabulary. She begins by clarifying common terms associated with having a baby, such as 'giving birth' and 'delivering a baby.' Anna also explains the distinction between natural birth and caesarean sections (c-sections), demystifying the processes involved in each method.

The lesson further delves into what it means to go into labor, focusing on the process a woman's body undergoes during childbirth. Anna explains terms like 'full-term,' 'preterm,' and 'overdue,' while also discussing potential interventions like labor induction techniques, including membrane sweeps and hormone drips.

To wrap up, Anna covers the roles of medical professionals like midwives, obstetricians, and anesthetists during childbirth. She also gives an overview of pain relief options, such as hypno-birthing and epidurals, ensuring her audience is well-prepared for any childbirth conversation or experience.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction to Childbirth Vocabulary This chapter introduces vocabulary related to childbirth, focusing on the various ways to describe the process of having a baby. The terms 'having a baby', 'giving birth', and 'delivering a baby' are explained. Additionally, it notes that the hospital room where this takes place is often called the delivery room.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Baby Delivery Myths The chapter discusses the common myth of babies being delivered by a stork, a tale often found in many cultures to explain the origin of babies. It prompts readers to share any similar stories from their own cultures in the comment section. The speaker shows curiosity and eagerness about the future and ends the discussion with a note of sensing something forthcoming, although interrupted by a mysterious comment about a fishbowl.
• 01:00 - 02:00: Learning Languages with Italki The chapter introduces Italki, an online language learning platform, emphasizing its convenience, flexibility, and global accessibility. It highlights that learners can have lessons anytime and anywhere with an internet connection. The narrator also notes the opportunity to meet nice people through Italki.
• 02:00 - 03:00: Full-term, Preterm, Overdue The chapter titled 'Full-term, Preterm, Overdue' appears to be an advertisement or promotional content rather than an informative or educational text. It starts by mentioning how teachers are special and the ability to choose your favorite. It then abruptly shifts to exclaiming about something remarkable, likely referring to prices. The text concludes with a promotional offer for itoki, where new sign-ups can get a $10 credit by clicking a link in the description. Overall, it lacks cohesion and context related to the chapter title, resembling more of an ad script.
• 03:00 - 04:30: Types of Birth: Natural, C-Section, Water Birth The chapter covers various types of births including Natural birth, C-Section, and Water Birth. It mentions the importance of reaching full-term pregnancy which was previously discussed in the pregnancy vocabulary lesson.
• 04:30 - 06:00: Labor Process and Induction Labor process and induction primarily deals with the timeline of pregnancy, focusing on full-term and preterm pregnancies. Full-term refers to a pregnancy that lasts around 40 weeks, during which the baby is fully developed. However, if labor or delivery occurs before 37 weeks, it is considered preterm, and the baby is termed premature. The chapter highlights conditions and procedures related to pregnancies that extend beyond 40 weeks, potentially reaching 41 or even 42 weeks.
• 06:00 - 08:00: Vaginal Exams and Waters Breaking The chapter focuses on the topic of overdue birth and the common experience of talking about how one gave birth. It explains the two main options for giving birth, specifically highlighting vaginal birth, which is the term used when a child is delivered through the vaginal canal as nature intended. The content is likely to elaborate on vaginal exams and the process or implications of waters breaking in this context.
• 08:00 - 10:00: Dilation and Contractions The chapter titled 'Dilation and Contractions' discusses the terminology related to childbirth. It emphasizes the discomfort some people feel when using words like 'vagina' or 'vaginal' and how they often substitute these with terms like 'natural birth.' The chapter also explains the process of a caesarean section, or c-section, a procedure involving an incision through the abdominal wall, offering a quicker alternative to natural childbirth.
• 10:00 - 12:00: Pain Relief Options The chapter titled 'Pain Relief Options' discusses various methods of childbirth, including cesarean section (C-section) and water birth, which is a form of vaginal delivery in water at a hospital or home. The narrative invites readers to share their personal experiences with different childbirth methods in the comments section.
• 12:00 - 14:00: Crowning, Tearing, and Episiotomy The chapter titled 'Crowning, Tearing, and Episiotomy' delves into the natural birthing process, specifically focusing on labor. Labor is described as a strenuous process necessary for childbirth. The word itself, labor, means hard work, signifying the body's extensive effort to deliver a baby. The narrative describes the stages of labor, mentioning terms like 'going into labor' and 'being in labor,' which signify the onset and continuation of this intense process.
• 17:00 - 18:00: Conclusion: Preparing for Childbirth The conclusion chapter focuses on the final preparations for childbirth, emphasizing the importance of understanding and recognizing when a woman is in labor. It discusses the natural commencement of labor, known as spontaneous labor, and contrasts it with induced labor, which requires medical intervention to begin. The chapter outlines various methods of labor induction, providing insight into what expectant mothers might experience as they prepare for the birth of their child.

English Vocabulary - Labour and Childbirth - English Like A Native Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 hi guys Anna English here and we're gonna dive straight in and learn some vocabulary around childbirth so first we talk about having a baby or giving birth so you have a baby but you give birth to a baby you may also hear the verb deliver used when talking about having a baby you deliver a baby and often the room in the hospital where the baby is delivered is called the delivery room it
• 00:30 - 01:00 actually reminds me of the story of babies being delivered by a stalk do you have something similar in your country to explain where babies come from if you do put it in the comment section below or think so I just want to know if there's anything special to look forward to anything anything amazing coming up in my future oh I'm sensing something but sorry isn't that fishbowl Shh the
• 01:00 - 01:30 spirits are trying to talk to me yes I see I see I told key I talkie it's an online language learning provider online yes online which means it's very convenient you can have a lesson anytime anywhere in the world as long as you have a device and an internet connection and when I meet some nice people there oh
• 01:30 - 02:00 yes all the teachers are very special and you can choose your favorite from a very long list and oh my what is it I've never seen anything like this before these are incredible prices it's so affordable and if you are a new sign up to itoki and click the link in the description box below then you will get $10 credit when
• 02:00 - 02:30 you make your first purchase $10 credit $10 credit and they also offer so many languages I wouldn't know where to start oh I think I need to have a lighter you will be giving birth to your baby when you are full-term hopefully if you don't remember the term full-term we covered this in the pregnancy vocabulary lesson which I will link up above now or down
• 02:30 - 03:00 below in case you missed it full-term basically refers to around 40 weeks of pregnancy where the baby is fully developed so you are full-term if however you go into labor or you have your baby earlier than 37 weeks you are preterm and a baby born preterm is a premature baby now if your pregnancy lasts longer than 40 weeks perhaps you go to 41 weeks 42 weeks maybe even
• 03:00 - 03:30 longer than that you are overdue you're overdue your baby is overdue commonly when talking about giving birth we will talk about how we gave birth there are two main options you either have a vagina birth now this is the medical term a vagina birth that means the child comes out through your vagina in the way that nature intended however a spirits
• 03:30 - 04:00 get embarrassed when saying words like vagina or vaginal so instead we prefer to say natural birth I had a natural birth another way to give birth is via a caesarean action otherwise known as a c-section much easier and quicker to say a c-section is where a cut or an incision is made through the abdominal wall and
• 04:00 - 04:30 the baby is released that way and brought into the world through your tummy now if you have any kiddie winks then I would love to know whether your children were born naturally or whether they were born via cesarean section let me know in the comment section below you may hear some people saying that they had a water birth this is a vaginal birth the baby was delivered naturally but in water in a special pool in the labor Ward or perhaps at home in order
• 04:30 - 05:00 to have a natural birth you must go through a process called labor labor is laborious labor the word means hard work so your body does a lot of hard work in order to push that baby out of your body when talking about this process we talked about going into labor and being in labor so if a woman comes into the
• 05:00 - 05:30 hospital and she is about to give birth you would say this woman is in labor hopefully labor will start naturally or spontaneously but in a lot of cases labor will need to be induced so an induction will be necessary if your labor is induced then medical intervention is required to start the labor off there are a number of ways in which they can do this first of all your
• 05:30 - 06:00 midwife or your doctor will try a membrane sweep or a cervical sweep this is where they rub their fingers along the cervix to separate the membrane or something like that but they basically give it a little rub to hopefully get things going if that doesn't work then you will be properly induced first they will try something called a pessary a pessary this is
• 06:00 - 06:30 tablet or sometimes they use a gel that is inserted into the vagina and it melts and releases hormones I believe to stimulate the cervix to thin and start the process of labour another way to induce labour is to use a hormone drip so they drip fluids directly into your veins and this is done via a cannula which is a needle and a little opening that they put into your vein in your
• 06:30 - 07:00 hand usually so that they can easily get blood out and easily clots slip easily put fluids in a cannula very painful once you are in labor if you're in the hospital you are likely to have at some point a vaginal exam now the vaginal exam is firstly to check how's your mucous plug come out a mucus plug is a plug of mucus that plugs the cervix so it's the little
• 07:00 - 07:30 plug that keeps everything in the uterus and once that comes away hopefully then your waters will break now the waters breaking we're referring to the amniotic fluid in the fluid sac the amniotic sac that surrounds the baby once that ruptures all the fluid comes away and the baby is ready to be born we talked about this coming away a fluid as the waters breaking so where did your waters
• 07:30 - 08:00 break now my waters broke at home luckily but it happened preterm and I wasn't in labor my membrane ruptured my waters broke and all the amniotic fluid came away and then I knew I had to go to the hospital because at some point soon I should hopefully go into labor and once those waters have broken that baby is no longer protected so that baby has to come out in my case when I
• 08:00 - 08:30 arrived at the hospital my waters had broken my mucus plug had gone I had to have Journal exam and in this vagina exam they are also looking to see whether or not your cervix has begun to dilate dilate dilation is the word that we use to talk about the opening of the cervix and we talked about it in centimeters so normally when you're about to give birth
• 08:30 - 09:00 your cervix will be around 10 centimeters dilated so it'd be quite wide open probably not that big and that will then allow the baby to come through but earlier on in labor in my case for example when I was in labor I only got to around four centimeters dilated and that was tough the pains that you experienced during labor are referred to as contractions now the word contraction has many
• 09:00 - 09:30 different meanings but in labor it solely refers to the tightening of the muscles that naturally push the baby out and contractions can be very very painful which is where you hear women screaming in agony on all of those TV programs and in those movies so now we're on the subject of pain let's talk about the pain relief that you use during labor firstly we have hypno birthing hypno birthing is where you use
• 09:30 - 10:00 the power of positive thought you use techniques like breathing and visualization in order to have a drug-free childbirth so if you don't want to use any medicine whatsoever you just want to do it naturally then you use hypno birthing which is what I try to do commonly many women will use gas and air which you suck up and it instantly relieves the pain apparently I
• 10:00 - 10:30 haven't tried that myself if you have please let me know what was it like there are of course then pain relief medicines that you can have injected there are a number of those or you can opt to have an epidural an epidural is an injection that goes into your back and it makes you paralyzed from the waist down so you don't feel any of the pain similar to that you have something called a spinal block the difference between an epidural and the
• 10:30 - 11:00 spinal block is simply how long it lasts I had a spinal block when I then had to go for an emergency c-section so they gave me a spinal block so I couldn't feel the incision in my abdomen but when that spinal block wore off oh I definitely felt it if you're having a natural birth then there are a few things that will happen the baby will start crowning when he comes towards the
• 11:00 - 11:30 end so when you can see the baby's head when he's just about to pop out that is the baby crowning now hopefully his head won't be so big that he tears you when we talk about to tear down below we talked about it in first second third degrees of tear nastiness so if it's a very bad tear it might be a third-degree tear if it's not about tear it will be a first degree or a second degree I'm not
• 11:30 - 12:00 a doctor I'm not quite sure exactly how it works but they are tears now to avoid you tearing down there you might have to have what's called an episiotomy where the doctors or the Midwife will cut a little a little bit of the skin down below in order to release a bit of pressure to allow the baby to come out without tearing you in a bad way and that's called an episiotomy now the area they usually cut is between the vagina
• 12:00 - 12:30 and the anus and this is called the perineum I believe the perineum lots of new words episiotomy perineum if the baby is struggling to come out then the doctors may need to use forceps which are like two spoons that they put in to help pull the baby out now whether you have a natural birth or a c-section there is a risk of hemorrhaging as actually once you give birth to the
• 12:30 - 13:00 placenta to remember what the placenta is we talked about it in the pregnancy vocabulary it is the interface between the baby and the mother attached to the baby via the umbilical cord so that is the placenta what should give birth to that some people have a risk of hemorrhaging hemorrhaging and at some point after the baby has been delivered someone has to cut the cord usually it's
• 13:00 - 13:30 daddy who cuts the cord but it might be some other member of your family or a friend or maybe just one of the medical professionals when I was in the hospital I shared a room with a lady suffering from preeclampsia preeclampsia preeclampsia is a condition involving high blood pressure which is a danger to your pregnancy so when you are pregnant your doctors will keep an eye on you to check for signs of preeclampsia once your beautiful baby is here in the
• 13:30 - 14:00 world their first bowel movement their first poop will be called a micro time a minima meconium poo it's a very different texture to their poo afterwards the first few days their poo is like tar it's black it's sticky and we call it meconium well it's very sticky finally the types of medical professionals you are likely to come into contact with throughout pregnancy
• 14:00 - 14:30 and childbirth are a midwife who specializes only in supporting pregnancy and childbirth then above that you have an obstetrician obstetrician which is a doctor that specializes in pregnancy and childbirth then we have a pediatrician a pediatrician a pediatrician that specializes in the treatment of children a gynecologist a gynecologist a gynecologist is a doctor that
• 14:30 - 15:00 specializes in women's reproductive health so everything down there a gynecologist will look after and finally if you require an epidural so if you're having a c-section or an epidural for natural childbirth you will see an anesthetist and nice the tests that one is a difficult one to say and nice the test well that was a lot of vocabulary to squeeze into one lesson if
• 15:00 - 15:30 you are interested to know a little bit more about my personal labor story my childbirth story then you can watch the video which I made all about my experience and that's appearing above my head or it will be down in the twitchin box below over on my personal channel anna's big adventure as always I do hope you found this helpful if you did please give it a thumbs up don't forget to subscribe and press the bell notification button so you don't miss
• 15:30 - 16:00 out on any future lessons and until next time take care and good bye