The Midwife Guide to Pain Management in Labor and Birth

The Midwife Guide to Pain Management in Labor and Birth

This course will radically change the way you think about birth by understanding the cause and function of pain and the influence of fear on your experience.

It is the foundation course for birth preparation and will ensure that you go into labor feeling calm and confident.

There are not too many women who come to my classes expecting an enjoyable birth experience - even though many of them achieve that and it is most definitely possible.

However, for as long as you associate pain with labor and use the term pain, it will naturally make you think of unpleasant and abnormal situations like toothache or a broken bone. This pain occurs as a result of something being inherently wrong, and yet everything you will feel in labor is a signal that it is right.

No matter how many people you ask, what labor feels like, the answers will fall anywhere on the spectrum of “ not nearly as bad as I expected” to “absolutely excruciating” which really does not help you at all because you will naturally focus on the latter.

In terms of preparation, think of it this way. If you woke up one morning and decided to run the London marathon, you would have to put a training program together and prepare. You would never just turn up at the start line with the wrong shoes, no water and no training. You would never consider running a marathon without knowing the route, what to expect, where the hills are or how to pace yourself.

Preparing to have your baby is much the same. By the time your labor begins, you want to be sure that you have

• Done your training and mental preparation.

• You know the route (the stages of labor)

• You accept that it is going to be challenging

• You understand the factors that are out of your control

• You know how to pace yourself

• You know how to harness the power of your mind

• You know how to use powerful breathing techniques to avoid the fear/tension/pain cycle

• You understand the impact of hormones oxytocin and endorphins and how to maximise them

In this course you will learn all of that and a whole lot more. The course is structured to give you a deep understanding of the nature of pain and, your expectations and proven tools to manage it.

A remarkable insight into the power and pleasure of labor and birth

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What you will learn

• You will learn how labor pain is different to all other kinds of pain and how to manage it effectively.
• You will learn how hormones impact labor pain and how to maximise hormonal pain relief
• You will learn how fear causes pain in what we call the Fear/Tension/Pain cycle and how to make sure this does not happen to you.

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Level: All Levels

Duration: 4 hours

Instructor: Karen Wilmot Midwife & Prenatal Yoga Specialist