Posts Tagged ‘contractions’

• How do you know you are in labor?

  Date: 2010.09.02 | Category: Pregnancy | Response: 4

  Most women who are pregnant for the first time, and some who are pregnant after having given birth before, wonder how they will know they are in labor. The most common answer to this question is simply – “Trust me, you’ll know!”. What if this answer does not satisfy you, and you would prefer to get some more detailed information? What do contractions feel like? How can you distinguish labor contractions from the Braxton Hicks contractions you have been having all pregnancy long? How do you know your water has broken? And how can women who have weeks or prodromal labor tell that they are finally experiencing active labor, and are about to give birth?

  

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• Natural pain relief techniques during labor

  Date: 2010.08.07 | Category: Birth | Response: 7

  Yesterday, I discussed the many risks of epidural anesthesia, which has become such a wide-spread pain relief method in childbirth that many women think it is their only option. Today, we will take a look at other pain relief techniques during labor. There are many proactive steps a laboring woman can undertake to gain relief from the pain that sometimes comes with contractions. Many of them are simple and common-sense. Here are some things any woman can do to make her labor and birth a more pleasant, and less painful experience. Read the rest of this entry »