Labour Positions

[karlahine]

I have a lovely Twitter friend who is currently enduring dreadful labour pains, although there are many articles out there it's sometimes nice to hear from those who know. I've had 3 children and can honestly say each pregnancy was different. I can't fully remember the first 2 but definately reme,ber the labour with the last and what worked really well for me was doing plenty of walking, I remember walking through all the halls in the hospital and would not stop until I was ready to have him! The other point I noticed was when I was getting early twinges I would sit down and they would pass, however this also paused the whole process so I persisted and leaned over the table and swayed from side to side. This eased the pain but kept the process going! What words of wisdom do you have?

Walking definitely works for me and also deep squats holding DH's hands and leaning back. Rocking on all fours, the warrior positions from yoga and standing with my back to a wall and putting a birthing ball between the small of my back and the wall to lean back into helped too.

Gah pressed post!

Good luck to your friend :) I admire her posting on twitter - I couldn't have concentrated!

Where's the pain? The probably affects what helps.

I found deep squats, standing with one leg up on a chair and the other of the floor (opens the pelvis) and leaning over the back of an armchair helped with back pain.