Reframing is a good tool to help a mom through labor. When she says, "The contractions are so strong I can't stand it anymore," help her see it in a different way: "Feel how wonderfully powerful your body is!" or "You're doing just what you need to do." When mom asks plaintively, "Why is it grinding into my back?" put the sensation in a different perspective by saying, "How exciting to feel your baby working with you to move down and out!" or "Let's work to get baby's head down past that pressure point."
-Judy Edmunds, Wisdom of the Midwives: Tricks of the Trade Volume Two, a Midwivery Today book
Reprinted from Midwifery Today E-News (Vol 1 Issue 32, Aug 6, 1999)
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