Consider taking a walk, spending time on a birth ball, or use the support of your partner's body to
sway through contractions.
My amazing nurse gave me lots of grace with the time limits, and even held the monitors in crazy positions while I
moved through contractions.
He was also confident and comfortable using the comfort measures we learned such as the hip squeeze which turned out to be really helpful for me
getting through contractions!
I could
talk through contractions and except for being aware that they were happening and they were mildly uncomfortable, it just didn't seem intense enough.
It is very difficult to explain your point of view when every two minutes you have to stop to deep breathe your
way through a contraction.
After checking in and learning I was about 5 cm dilated, my doula helped me
relax through the contractions, which were almost pleasant compared to the shooting and stabbing back pains I had with my daughter.
Fluid accumulation is counteracted in the legs of active people
through contractions of the leg muscle which squeeze the veins.
I look back at how I snarled and
screamed through my contractions, how I sat there naked and sweating in front of my husband, his mother, two midwives and their student, and I am proud.
All I could think was how thankful I was that we had chosen to have a home birth because the prospect of having to get dressed and get in the car, drive 15 minutes to the hospital, do check - in at admissions while
going through contractions under fluorescent lights in front of God and everybody just sounded horrible.
Of course, no one thought to get the pregnant lady any food, so I had to breathe
through contractions while my husband and his mom ate ice cream... ICE CREAM!
We're not sure if her eyes are closed because she is trying to
bear through a contraction or because the epidural has calmed them down and allowed her to sleep, but we definitely get a sense of the peace of the moment — and that just helps build the excitement.
The head nurse was happy I was not a screamer LOL and the student nurse was amaze that I looked like I was
sleeping through contractions that was going off the charts.
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