Natural pick-me-ups.

[Bekki]

I've become incredibly weepy in the last weeks of pregnancy and I don't want to be crying through labour again, so can anyone suggest any good natural remedies, aromatherapy oils thatI can use in pregnancy, labour and after birth to cheer me up and keep the baby blues away?

Advice may be needed urgently as contractions started 3 this morning.

Bekki, Hope someone who can help sees this ASAP!!!!

If this is the beginning of your labour, wishing you good luck!

Good luck Bekki - try rescue remedy if you have some or sepia 200 in homeopathy !
Good luck

Ohh Bekki, I hope you're getting on okay.

No advice on the pick me ups but wanted to wish you luck here as well as on our Sept thread.

I can second BACH'S rescue remedy

good luck

Someone must have some more advice, I can also vouch for Bachs but there must be other ones ????

I read somewhere (Rose Elliot I think) that oats are good for the blues - so I reckon a huge dose of flapjack might be in order!

Good luck!!! By the way my consultant told me chocolate

Wills, theres something I have an abundance of! Great that'll do me nicely! Still in labour! Can I just remind anyone thinking of having a second child that labour really hurts. I was just thinking with my last contraction that this isn't something that I want to be doing right now thankyou very much.

Bananas are meant to be mood elevators. Probably best dipped in chocolate just to be sure

Bekki, surely No2 doesnt hurt as much as No 1??!!??

Bunny says with hope !!!
Actually Bekki it doesn't hurt as much as no 1 does it.....
Starting to panic now

Sorry I didn't mean to scare anyone, but yes contractions hurt the same amount as the first time around. In my case the contractions were more painful than the first time around as I was having contractions at 5 minute intervals when I was around 2 cm dilated! I was induced first time and the whole thing was over very quickly, my body had no idea what had happened to it. But I enjoyed the entire (second) experience and would do it again in a heartbeat if it produced something as perfect as this little one again.