Continue from previous post, this is Lesson 2.
• Antenatal Exercise
• Physiological Approach to Breathing Technique
• Changes in Pregnancy Leading to Signs & Symptoms of Labour
• Other Alternative Types of Pain Relief in Labour
• Instructional Video
• Q & A
What I can remember (which is like <10% of what's in the class I think)
- Video on different types of pain reliefs for labour.
There are actually so many different types of relief but we normally only hear about 1 or 2 from your friends or relatives so this video and class really let us understand what options there are.
- Breathing Techniques
She taught us 3 techniques but there's only 1 that can be used throughout which is Deep Breathing.
It's important to control your breathing as you don't really want to go into panic-breathing. When you panic breathe you'll go all hysterical and waste a lot of energy doing things that harm your body..
Type 1. Breathe in deep breath thru the nose, breathe out slowly thru the nose. (2,3,4,5...)
Type 2. Breathe in deep breath thru nose, breathe out thru mouth
Type 3. Breathe in deep breath thru nose, pant it out. Pant Pant Pant.. (Use when there's sharp contraction in the 2nd part of labour)
- Relaxation Exercise
Learning how to relax is really curial especially since you'll be in labour for many hours.
Deep breathing.. Relax your body from shoulders to toe.
Picturing yourself on the beach, facing clear blue skies and ocean.
Feeling the gentle waves blowing across, imagine a water canal and seeing your little one peacefully sleeping on the water.. When it's time for birth imagine the baby smoothly coming out from the canal...
- Pelvic Floor Exercise
When you read about Pelvic Floor Exercise, most of the time it's just a couple of lines on the books but this class is really detailed!
Identify the 3 different place that needs tightening
Tighten them individually and then finally everything together.
Most importantly, DO NOT HOLD YOUR BREATH!
- Breast Firming Exercise
I can't remember if she taught this in lesson 1 or 2, but I only remember 2 of the 3 steps she taught. :(
- Husband's Support
As per lesson 1, husband's participation is encouraged and really important in Labour so husband's involvement in lesson 2 is equally important.
During labour the mother can only hear and act upon familiar voice. The midwife can keep repeating what to do and the mother wouldn't be able to hear and act accordingly because she's in pain. When a familiar voice is beside her, telling her to breathe, not to push, to relax (reminding her to picture clear ocean and skies..) to push (when needed), she will be able to follow the voice better because when you're in pain you can only hear familiar voice and block out all other noises.
To help relief the pain, husbands can massage the 2 points on her lower back throughout the many hours of labour before she's officially ready to give birth. Continuous message for a few hours can be very tiring! Mrs Wong taught the husbands how to massage the wife's back using fingers, knuckles and palm. So if your husband say there's nothing he can do during labour, tell him he's wrong! There's so much he can do during labour!! Heh.
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