Don’t we ALL want to know how to manage, cope with, deal with and work with labor contractions pain? Yes we do! In fact if we weren’t so afraid of the natural occurring pain of labor contractions, we’d all be calm, relaxed and enthused about our coming birth. But there’s a lingering concern (call it fear!) that contraction pain is going to cause us to loss control. No woman wants to suffer in childbirth and feel out of control.
That’s why you need Birthing Better birth and birth coaching skills. We’ve created them for you. Who are we? Hundreds of ordinary mothers and fathers who also wanted to know what to do about contraction pains. As birthing women we want to cope and mange our labor well. As fathers we want to really know how to help our birthing partner.
What are some of the skills we developed to help us cope with labor contraction pains:
- Directed Breathing … yes, you’ll breathe all the time. Now you can learn the best breathing methods for you. Breathing skills that adapt and adjust and help you work through your baby’s birth well.
- Deep Touch Relaxation … it’s vitally important that you know exactly how-to relax during the birth whether you’re feeling pain, having medical interventions done to you or just feel anxious.
- Working Together … yes, there are exact skills to work together with your partner and how to use both verbal and non-verbal communication well throughout your baby’s birth and afterwards.
- Niggling Labors … one of those natural issues that can lead to more interventions.
- 5 Phases of contractions … at each phase you can use one or more of your skills and stay on top of and in control of each contraction no matter how painful!
- Progression of labor … learn to read every contraction so your labor contractions are effective. Feeling your labor progresses actually helps you cope better with contraction pain.
But we have to let you in on a secret. Dealing with labor contraction pain is directly related to preparing your pregnant body to give birth so here are the Birthing Better skills we developed.
- The Hip Lift … create space for your baby inside your body
- Sacrum manoeuvre … create space, reduce chance of back labour, help a posterior baby turn and deal with any back labor that happens
- Pelvic Clock … soften inside your pelvis and help your cervix to open, reduce or prevent long 1st stage of labor.
- Sit Bone Spread … reduce or prevent long pushing stage of birth.
- Internal Work … you will naturally stretch in your vagina however, a delay in 2nd stage can also lead to interventions as well as cause damage to your body.
Once we prepared our pregnant body for birth then we developed a level of confidence that was unprecedented. Just gathering information and making choices never inspired that level of know-how and confidence.
Sure some of us still had heaps of fear around labor contraction pain but we knew we had to skills to work with each contraction, deal with the natural occurring pain, manage each of the 5 Phases of every contraction and cope well with the intensity of dilation. And as a father-to-be/other we absolutely KNEW we could help our birthing loved one as she has contraction pain.
We created for you the very best Birthing Better online learning resource (or one that you can digitally download) so that you can absolutely, without a doubt manage labor contraction pain. It may be hard work but you’re up to it. You might hate every moment but you’ll still know how to manage. You might have people fiddling with you but you’ll still be able to cope well.
After your birth you and your partner will say: ‘I did it!’ Yes, you did!