Breathing correctly during labor will not only lessen the pain of your contractions, but it will also help you adjust to your optimal rhythm.
Experts advise using several common breathing patterns for each stage. childbirth.
Correct breathing
Breathing during contractions should be aimed at shortening the duration of inspiration and increasing the duration of exhalation.
This will help you to reduce muscle tension that occurs on inhalation, the muscles relax at the exit, the pain goes away.If contractions can still be tolerated, and childbirth has just begun, doctors advise practicing so-called abdominal breathing.
- You inhale deeply through your nose and exhale slowly through your mouth.
For frequent contractions, we advise you to switch to shallow breathing, inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth.
After the completion of the first stage of labor, the breathing technique also changes: the woman in labor needs to push, for this she takes a deep breath with her mouth and slowly releases air.Doctors remind that many women, due to stress during childbirth, do not pay attention to breathing, although the rules are elementary.
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