During pregnancy it is difficult not to think of the forthcoming childbirth. And most often cause fear of a thought of severe pain. The giving birth girlfriends and women on the Internet often frighten future mom by the stories and recommend different techniques for pain relief. From them it is possible to allocate several most effective.
Correct breath
The most widespread way to relieve pain during childbirth - special breath. It is necessary to be trained in advance at midpoint without thinking to work. If not to consider disposal of pain by means of drugs, respiratory technique carries the best analgesic effect. And in addition brings also other benefit:
- accelerates childbirth - having focused on the correct breath, the woman in labor stops thinking about pain and gets rid of fear, because of it the neck of the uterus reveals quicker;
- relaxes muscles - it is important that childbirth took place more simply and quicker, and measured breath perfectly helps an organism to relax;
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- oxygenates - muscles during childbirth strain therefore they need more oxygen especially as a part leaves to the kid.
Midwifes note that recently women are not able to breathe correctly, and at the same time do not listen to the hint. Because of it childbirth drags on, women suffer longer and test more pain. But it is not their wine - difficult in such stressful situation to adjust to the correct breath if before did not practice. So it is worth studying this question before fights begin. For each stage of childbirth the breath differs:
- During the fights at an early stage it is necessary to take a slow deep nasal breath (into 4 accounts), and then to exhale through a mouth even more slowly (on 6). Such measured breath allows to relax and reduces pain from a fight.
- During more frequent fights recommend to breathe through the mouth like a dog, i.e. quickly and superficially, with an open mouth. Such breath needs to be used only during the fight, and in its end to make a deep breath and then a long slow exhalation.
- During attempts it is necessary to take a deep breath a nose, and then sharply to exhale a mouth, directing force to pushing out of the kid from a uterus and not to make an effort in the head.
If you manage to train special breath prior to the fights, in labor it will be much simpler to you to listen to hints of the midwife and to carry out them. The main thing you do not shout and do not hold the breath during the fight because it deprives of you and the child of oxygen.
Walking and necessary poses
During the fights it is better for woman to be standing, but without lying in a bed or on a couch. If, of course, there are no indications for horizontal position. In a usual situation it is more useful to endure fights standing:
- not so strong pain;
- the child presses on a neck of the uterus and it reveals quicker that accelerates childbirth;
- the woman is free in the choice of a pose which will provide inflow of blood to the child, so it will have no hypoxia.
When it is already difficult to go on chamber, it is possible to occupy a pose, convenient for you. It is impossible to prompt universal situation at which pain will pass. Each woman is unique so it is necessary to try different options and to pick up suitable you:
- to lean on a back of a bed, a chair or on a wall;
- to sit on a chair, bending forward;
- to rise on all fours;
- to rise on hunkers and to part legs in the parties;
- to sit or jump on a fitball;
- being kneeling to lean on a chair or a bed;
- to hang on a neck of the loved one or on a rope;
- to carry out rotations by the building to lower load of a back, etc.
If you strongly were tired and there are no forces to stand, then it is better to lay down and find a comfortable position in a bed. The most convenient pose in such situation - lying on one side, having enclosed a pillow. You will need forces on the last phase of childbirth so it is not necessary to be overstrained. Listen to the feelings and the body itself will prompt as at present it will be better.
Massage
There is a special massage which helps to reduce painful feelings and to accelerate childbirth. It is desirable that massage was done by other person - the husband, the girlfriend, the relative or at least the midwife.
Massage of a sacrum which is slightly below than a waist is considered the most effective. In this area all terminations connected with bodies of a small pelvis are concentrated. If to mass a sacrum during the fight, transfer of a nervous impulse from a uterus because of what pain ceases is broken. For massage one hand will be enough, it is necessary to press or pound area of a sacrum bones, a palm or the basis of a brush.
In addition it is possible to press dimples over buttocks where the sacral nerve as its stimulation very well reduces pain in labor is located.
Self-massage will help to appease painful feelings too. For this purpose it is necessary to stroke gently palms or finger-tips on a stomach bottom. It is necessary to move from the center in the direction, and then to the middle again.
One more point for self-massage is on the brush back. Located between big and index fingers. Press minute on this point, and then take a break for a couple of minutes. Just during the fights.
Aromatherapy
To some women certain smells help to relax with labor. But if you never resorted before to such method and do not trust in aromatherapy force at all, most likely you will not notice effect at such concerning moment.
Certain smells usually help women who and actively resorted before to their use. The main thing to pick up suitable smells, and in this question everything is too individual. The smell of rose can work rasslablyayushche on one woman, and only to cause a headache in another.
Attribute to each oil the special characteristics:
- The lavender - reduces uterine pains in fights, weakens painful feelings in a back and legs. It can softly strengthen fights, at the same time without raising pain.
- The rose - harmonizes uterine reductions, reduces nervousness, stimulates equal breath and in general increases mood.
- The verbena facilitates childbirth and does them softer, and invigorates the tired woman in labor and gives a second wind when forces on an outcome.
- The muscat sage is especially good as a compress on a sacrum, then it will strengthen patrimonial activity and will reduce pain.
Before using new aromatic oil, it is necessary to make sure that you have on it no allergy. Discuss the desire to use an aromatherapy during childbirth with the doctor.
Positive spirit
In many respects pain depends on thoughts and fears of the woman in labor. If she is ready for difficult childbirth, expects them and is afraid, process can be dragged out and be disease. It is connected with tension - in such state the disclosure of a neck of the uterus is complicated. Therefore it is necessary to learn to relax and think of good.
First of all it is worth getting rid of a negative spirit. Focus on positive stories, and do not get a grasp of the description of problem childbirth with complications. You need to understand how there takes place childbirth, but you should not intimidate yourself by terrible cock-and-bull stories. Present the moment of a meeting with the child better.
Fights will be much more painful if the woman is strained and frightened. Therefore it is very important to learn to relax a body voluntarily. It is necessary to study it in advance, from the first half of pregnancy. So by the beginning of fights you will already be able to relax and be released voluntarily from negative emotions.
Autorelaksation - the most effective method for relaxation. The organism feels what you show it. Therefore close eyes more often and represent pictures pleasant to heart - as you play with the kid or lie on the beach by the sea. Learn to plunge completely into a mental picture to switch from pain to pleasant impressions.
Medicamentous ways
All listed ways can reduce painful feelings only by 30-50%. Only by means of anesthetics you will be able to get rid of pain almost completely.
Epiduralny anesthesia - the most widespread means for women in labor to remove pain. Medicine is entered into the area of a backbone by means of a special needle and a catheter. Means does not allow painful impulses to reach a brain. The lower body during effect of anesthetic remains insensitive.
The great advantage of such anesthesia - the woman remains in consciousness, everything realizes and understands. No harm to the child is done as medicine does not get to mother's blood.
Inhalation analgeziya - little-known and not such effective way. To the woman in labor nitrous oxide mix in concentration of 30-50% with oxygen moves. This mix reduces pain during the fight. The main thing is correct to time a breath - means works in 1 minute after a breath, but quickly disappears. So it is necessary to inhale at the very beginning of uterine reduction that anesthesia fell on right time.
But at all usability and safety of means, also side effects meet: nausea, dizziness, vomiting, confusion of consciousness.