Last birth I went into feeling shattered and was doing fine on the gas and air until, well, I wasn't. Just too tired couldn't be bothered with it all. Lost it a bit and just screamed my way through whilst my partner held me up, until curling up on my side and things kind of stopped and I felt some relief - midwives not impressed obviously as keen to keep things moving and get baby out. So basically other than half arsedly doing a mish mash of vaguely remembered hypnobirthing techniques, what 'worked' was just kind of giving up for a bit, though was encouraged to and forced myself to get up and keep going again after my little rest.
Keen to be a little more prepared this time... Anyone else experience anything like this? What did you do in that moment when you just lost it and it was all too much pain, to bring things back to being a little more controlled? Is there a specific technique taught anywhere? Aside from begging for all the drugs?
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Any tips for when you've had enough of being in labour?
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ncqtime · 04/09/2019 13:58
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