Remember that every surge (contraction) and part of labour is doing its job, and that labour doesn’t last forever. They can also encourage you to focus on your hypnobirthing breathing to help stay calm too and increase the oxytocin. They need to REASSURE you that YOU ARE SAFE when you hit the bat shit crazy phase! Simply with words like -Īnything to CALM and REASSURE her This is all about the birthing woman feeling safe again, So this is a really important part of labour for your birth partner to know about. There can also be shaking, nausea and vomiting. I have heard of women who have been coping BRILLIANTLY demanding a caesarean at this point, or ALL the drugs, or wanting to go home - when they ARE at home! Or demanding their mother. In that the adrenaline spike causes you to feel the intensity of the surges, so if you’ve been coping really well so far - using your hypnobirthing techniques etc, then suddenly this can be quite uncomfortable. If I tell you that I call it the ‘bat shit crazy’ stage this might give you an idea. There can be a really obvious change in emotional state - many women suddenly feel overwhelmed and out of control (due to the adrenaline) So when your birth partner notices you’re in the stage, and this might be really clear by how you are acting. If we don’t, then we’ll stay in the stress response and our labour can stall here - UNTIL WE FEEL SAFE AGAIN But we want to be in the ‘on alert’ state that is transition and the adrenaline causes for as little time as possible. So all the way through these videos, and all through your labour I've talked about keeping your stress hormones at bay, minimising them - allowing your oxytocin to flow. But this adrenaline spike is meant to happen, It’s part of the physiological process of labour. This is a really primitive safety mechanism if you like, in that because we need to be SAFE when we actually birth our baby - we need to have a little ‘double check’ at this point in labour to make sure we are safe and we can bring our baby into the world SAFELY without being chased by a sabor toothed tiger! As I’ve said in all these videos, and as I say in my hypnobirthing and birth preparation courses - EVERY LABOUR IS UNIQUEīut as a guide, transition is when there is a natural spike in Adrenaline, the stress hormone. It can be a real ‘marker’ with your labour, and really distinct phase or for some women it happens and is over without really being recognised. This is the transition from the first part of labour when the cervix opening to give an exit pathway for baby, to the body getting ready for the birthing stage - hence it’s called ‘transition’. Your cervix will be around kind of 8 to 10cm dilated But this phase is usually short - perhaps 10-15 minutes (4 or 5 surges long). It can be the most intense phase, the most uncomfortable. You’ll be having regular and strong surges, around a minute or so long. Now transition is the stage that follows on from Active Labour and is before the birthing stage when you’ll meet your baby. So this post and video is about the next stage of labour in my little series about about.
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