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Common forms of pain relief during labour
There are several choices to make regarding medical forms of pain relief, and each has its advantages and disadvantages. Talk through your options with your midwife. The right choice will depend in part on how far into labour you are, and how quickly labour is progressing. Your midwife will do an internal examination to see how dilated your cervix…
Complementary therapies for labour
Many women choose to use complementary therapies such as acupuncture, hypnosis and aromatherapy to help them in labour. For some women these therapies are very useful, and they need no other form of pain relief. For other women these therapies work best alongside mainstream medical forms of pain relief. Your own midwife, or another midwife…
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Pain relief for a home birth
Probably since you decided on a home birth, most people will have asked what you’ll do without an epidural. Well, while it’s true that you cannot have an epidural at a home birth, not every hospital birth has an epidural either! It also doesn’t mean that you have to go through your whole labour without any form of pain…
Coping with pain in Labour
How they’ll cope with pain in labour is one of the things that most pregnant women are anxious about. Almost everyone has heard horror stories about what a painful experience labour is. And for some women, it does turn out to be the very painful. For others, though, the pain is quite manageable, while a…
Natural forms of pain relief
You have already had a lot of experience of coping with pain. Nobody gets to adulthood without becoming fairly expert in dealing with painful situations! Think of all the things you instinctively do to alleviate pain, such as: Curling up with a hot water bottle Using an ice pack Lying down in a darkened room…
