BirthingBetter BIRTH CHEAT SHEET … The BIG 10

Your Cheat Sheet During Birth … The BIG 10

Our BIG 10

These are the BIG 10 focuses that we have found to be the most important.

1. Breath = focus: Directed Breath, be aware of sounds.
2. Language: Communicate your needs verbally/non-verbally.
3. Touch: Use to relax the woman.
4. Stay open = focus: Use positions that suit your unique body.
5. Relax inside: Pelvic Clock = focus.
6. Keep the pelvis mobile: Use techniques – Kate’s Cat, Sacral Maneouvre etc.
7. Don’t go into labour tired: Rest in the early stages = discipline.
8. Stay in the NOW: Be in every contraction, then let it go.
9. Team work: Work together to manage the labour.
10. Stay determined: Pain in childbirth is usually part of the process, and needs to be managed. If your care provider doesn’t think the ‘pain’ is a problem, then just work through it. Labour is over with more quickly than your years of parenting. Of course you can get through it! 

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