TOP 22 PREGNANCY & BIRTHING OPTIONS Visualize a healthy and safe pregnancy. Understand that bonding with your baby begins at conception. Communicate with your unborn child. Use proper nutrition. Stop detrimental social habits (drinking, smoking, etc.) for the child's safety. Interview your doctor. Attend child-birthing classes. Learn about your hospital's protocol. Seek a hospital with home-like settings. Consider whirlpool baths. Delivery room atmosphere: soft music, dim lights, loving attitudes? Study pain management, from epidurals and massage to Trend Epidermal Nerve Stimulator (TENS) units. Choose which Labor, Delivery and Recovery (LDR) rooms you will use. Allow the newborn to stay with the family/mother after the birth. Choose a doctor who will help get father and siblings involved. Water birth Use of IVs Use of Enemas Use of continual or intermittent electric fetal monitoring Episiotomy Use of forceps Cesarean section