How will you keep yourself calm?

Question

I am now freaking out about labor. I have been pretty calm and just ready to meet baby until now. I had a little scare where she stopped moving on Monday night and had to go to L and D. She’s fine and is moving regularly again now, but that night I was so sick to my stomach just from the nerves of going to the hospital. What am I going to do?? It’s a 30 minute drive which is a long time to be freaking out in the car with no bathroom 😂
Have you ladies watched anything on YouTube or have any techniques you plan on using to keep calm and focus on the good that’s coming rather than the pain and the unknown??

Answer

Read the Hypnobirthing book. It has some mantras like “I trust my body and my baby” “Every surge of my body brings my baby closer to me” 
Also, contractions will come from the top of your uterus, picture then rolling through your body like a wave. Each one will have an end, breathe through them and relax your jaw muscles. And picture your cervix open and flowing, “like blue satin ribbons” or a flower blooming. 
I find those meditations to be very calming without taking you out of the birthing experience. I don’t want to imagine I’m on a beach with palm trees, because that’s a big leap from where i actually am. The Hypnobirth book does a great job.

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With my first it really helped me to keep my mouth and hands relaxed during contractions. I read in a birthing book that it helps keep your body and cervix relaxed which aids in pain relief as well as allowing your body to progress. So I would wiggle my fingers and focus on breathing away the pressure of the contractions. I plan on doing that with this baby as well. Also laboring in a tub of warm water was so nice for pain relief. 
I was really worried I wouldn’t be able to handle labor either as I’ve always had crippling, extremely pain periods. To the point I’d pass out, shake, throw up, you name it. It was like death but labor was so much better. I’ve had worse periods than labor contractions. 
Good luck! You can do this.

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Get a hypnobirthing cd and start listening daily and then you can listen to it in the car on the way to the hospital and play it in the hospital room to stay calm

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I have anxiety in general that I am treated for. Once it actually starts to get real the pain overshadows the "oh shit" panicky feeling. With my 3rd baby I tried not to think about it before hand and then when the first contraction hit I was flooded with oh god, why would we do this again lol. Like I said though, once the pain really starts all that is out the window and your just on a mission to get baby out

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Uh I was. 45 min drive from hospital with my first two 20/30 with this one. My last though was about a bath room when I went into labor lol. For me once labor started there was no stressing it was okay we’re having a baby an that was it didn’t have the time to stress it lol

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