Avoid Episiotomy with EPI-NO! Chlid Birth Trainer & Urinary Incontinence Treatment

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Childbirth Training With EPI-NO

During Delivery

In the last phase of birth, the parturition phase, your baby leaves the uterus, head first on its way towards the vaginal exit. The baby's head normally has a diameter of 9 cm at birth.

When entering the vaginal passage muscles unaccustomed to stretching must expand to accommodate the baby. This can result in spontaneous tears of the perineum, or an episiotomy may be performed, a procedure which can be associated with pain and the increased probability of subsequent unpleasant complications.

The EPI·NO birth training exercises are designed to gradually and gently stretch the vaginal muscles, increasing their elasticity, thus allowing the baby to pass with greater ease shortening the parturition phase. The EPI·NO birth trainer is designed to offer relief.

Preparing for the birth of your baby?

Perineal massage in the preliminary phase of delivery is a common method of preparing for childbirth, and often recommended by midwives as a cautionary protection of the perineum. Nevertheless a spontaneous perineal tear is registered in two thirds of all deliveries.

But today with EPI·NO, that need not be necessary at all! The EPI·NO Birth Trainer enables you to actively prepare your body for the stress to which it will be exposed during the parturition phase. EPI·NO exercises gently and naturally stretch the perineal tissue.

Mothers experiencing their first childbirth are gradually familiarised with the sensation of delivery as the daily exercise regimen concludes with "pushing out" the balloon, in a simulation of delivering your baby.

How EPI-NO Works

EPI·NO birth training commences three weeks prior to the date on which your baby is due. The daily exercises are performed at home and an effective session will take no more than 20 minutes each day. This is sufficient to gradually stretch the perineal tissue. You, the mother, determine the pace of training.

EPI·NO birth training promotes elasticity by pre-stretching the perineal tissue. Elasticity significantly reduces the probability of a perineal tear, or of an episiotomy during delivery. If the perineum remains intact, permanent regeneration of muscles and tissue is facilitated. Not only can the retrogression phase be accelerated, possible after-effects occur less frequently.

How EPI-NO Birth Training Works

EPI·NO Birth Training exercises start by inserting the balloon about two thirds of the way into the vagina. The balloon is stabilized by its contoured waist in this position in the vaginal opening.(1) The balloon is then gently inflated with the hand pump. The balloon pressure can be reduced at any time by opening the pressure release valve on the hand pump.
The inflated balloon not only stretches the vaginal muscles, it enables the mother to train and experience the sensation of pushing out her baby during delivery (2) These exercises prepare the mother well for the oncoming birth of her baby.

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EPI·NO is clinically proven to:

Reduce the incidence of an episiotomy or perineal tear from natural birth
Increase apgar score (rating for the health of a newborn)
Decrease the need for drugs during birth
Reduce the parturition phase of birth (resulting in less stress for the baby)
Reduce anxiety in the mother-to-be for a more enjoyable birth experience

Testimonial:

" ... Through the training with EPI·NO, the need for episiotomy and the spontaneous perineum tear rate have sunk significantly. The expulsion phase has -- in more than 70% of all births -- been shortened by at least half the expected time. The anxiety that many pregnant women have concerning the “passage of the head” is discussed and can already be dissipated before the birth. Many women speak after the birth of a “recognition effect” during delivery of the head because of their training with EPI·NO.

Based upon several years of experience, we can warmly recommend the EPI·NO pelvic floor trainer to every pregnant woman as preparation for the birth as well as well as after the birth for help in childbirth recovery. ... "

-- Excerpt from letter

by Irmgard Hummler, Qualified Midwife

Arco Maternity Clinic & Midwife Practice, Ltd.

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EPI·NO is Health Canada approved with a Medical Device License. EPI·NO was called the "most innovative [childbirthing] product of the year" by Birthwaves Maternity Sanctuary of Canada.