If you had a natural/unmediated birth, what helped you to remember to breath through the pain?

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Did you have a designated person? Vision board? Tune everyone out? Breathing pattern? Music?

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Nothing and I got really mad when people would tell me to breath slower. It actually made me incredibly dizzy to breath slower because I couldn't get enough oxygen to my body.

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I would say internally “I’m elastic, I’m open. This is just a muscle tightening” with each contraction while visualizing my body pushing the baby down and out with each breath. Don’t fight the contractions, lean into them. Having a birth playlist also helped.

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Reminding myself this was all natural and to let my body do it’s thing so I tried to relax into the contraction like you would breathe and relax into a deep stretch

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My body just took over naturally and breathing is what helped me get through the contractions. My husband tried to lighten the mood with jokes but I wasn’t having it…I just needed light lower back massages and comfort from him through it all. I rolled around on an exercise ball until I felt the need to push then got up and pushed my baby out. The nurses tried to tell me to wait but I told my husband I was pushing and someone needed to catch lol.

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My sister reminded me while I was being admitted. We practiced breathing together.

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My husband and nurse were there breathing with me, I made sure he knew how to help me before labor started.

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Before I got the epidural 20 hours in, I made my husband read to me from his Google feed. It helped, but things were not progressing so I got the epidural too.

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My nurse would massage my back and yell it haha actually did help when she did that. Not her being rude just if she didn’t yell it I wouldn’t hear it bc my brain was focused on everything else

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I had a focal point which was an Angel sculpture I brought with me. I did Lamaze breathing as well. There’s hypnobreathing too that you can look into. You’re going to do great!  💞
https://mommabe.com/lamaze-breathing-techniques/