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Thursday, June 19, 2025

Pushing with an Epidural with Erin Capnerhurst, RN


Even when a medical intervention isn’t in your beginning plan, it is best to nonetheless be educated on it; as a result of, on the finish of the day, nobody can predict their beginning!  Immediately is all about: epidurals.

Becoming a member of me at present on Yoga| Beginning| Infants, I’ve Erin Capnerhurst. Erin is a spouse, mom of three, and a Registered Nurse who has been supporting households by means of being pregnant and childbirth for 15 years within the hospital, clinic, and beginning training settings. Most lately, Erin earned her Prenatal Yoga Instructor certification with the Prenatal Yoga Middle!

 Are there various kinds of epidurals? How do you have to push with an epidural? Is there just one place to push in while you get the epidural? Let’s dive in.

On this episode, you’ll be taught:

  • About Erin and what impressed her to grow to be a labor and supply nurse
  • What the present knowledge tells us about epidural charges in North America
  • The distinction between a standard epidural, spinal epidural, and mixed spinal epidural
  • The most effective timing to get an epidural
  • Interventions that come together with getting an epidural and the way a nurse screens the affected person throughout these interventions
  • How and why not all epidurals work the identical for everybody
  • With an epidural, laboring individuals is not going to essentially really feel that urge to push; however they are going to really feel strain. Erin shares her suggestion for when to push as soon as somebody reaches 10cm.
  • How Erin guides and prepares somebody to push with an epidural 
  • How one, who just isn’t feeling their contractions as a result of epidural, can coordinate pushing with the height of a contraction
  • Numerous methods somebody can push with an epidural that also permits their pelvis and sacrum to open to its most potential
  • Erin’s thought on utilizing a mirror and even having the affected person’s fingers in the direction of their pelvic flooring to really feel the place they’re pushing, after they can’t really feel their contractions with an epidural
  • What occurs with the epidural as soon as child is born- how lengthy it stays infusing, when it will likely be turned off, and when it is going to put on off
  • One remaining tip or piece of recommendation Erin want to provide new and expectant mother and father
  • The place you’ll find her work

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About Erin:

Erin is a spouse, mom of three, and a Registered Nurse who has been supporting households by means of being pregnant and childbirth for 15 years within the hospital, clinic, and beginning training settings. Most lately Erin earned her Prenatal Yoga Instructor certification with the Prenatal Yoga Middle!

With a historical past as a scholar athlete and a level in Bodily Training and Biology previous to incomes her Bachelor of Nursing diploma, she has at all times had a wondrous curiosity for the human physique and the way it works. It was by means of supporting her sister within the beginning of her second youngster that Erin witnessed first hand the facility and transformation that lies throughout the miracle of childbirth. At this second, supporting households in being pregnant, labour, and supply turned her ardour. Since then she has stood alongside hundreds of households as they welcomed their infants to the world.

She believes information is energy and being ready for beginning empowers individuals with the boldness to movement by means of their very own distinctive childbirth journey.

Join with Erin:

IG: @erin.capnerhurst

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