Contents:
- Medical Video: Antenatal Breathing and Relaxation for Labour
- What is the Lamaze method?
- What is the Lamaze method like?
Medical Video: Antenatal Breathing and Relaxation for Labour
Afraid to feel unbearable pain during normal childbirth? Relax, with the correct breathing technique, then your pain during childbirth will decrease slightly. Irregular breathing during childbirth and you who panic can actually make your labor last longer and more painful. There is one breathing technique that can help you during normal delivery, this technique is called the Lamaze method. What is that? How to? See the explanation below.
What is the Lamaze method?
The Lamaze method is a technique used to help pregnant women during normal labor with a focus on breathing control. So, the possibility of pain that arises during normal labor can be reduced. As the name implies, the Lamaze method was first developed by a French obstetrician named Ferdinand Lamaze in the 1950s.
Over time the goals of the Lamaze method developed to increase the confidence of pregnant women that they were able to give birth, according to Lamaze International. The Lamaze class aims to help pregnant women learn to respond to pain during normal labor, so that pregnant women feel more comfortable and safe when giving birth. Indeed, in fact all women must be able to give birth normally this is a natural and healthy process.
What is the Lamaze method like?
The Lamaze method is done by regulating your breathing to reduce pain. Respiratory arrangements are carried out in a variety of patterns, such as inhaling deep breaths for five seconds and removing them for five seconds, and repeat continuously. Another pattern, namely by taking two short breaths and then removing them, so that it will sound like "hee-hee-hoooo".
By doing regular and slow breathing patterns, it can reduce heart rate, anxiety, and perception of pain. Your focus on labor is also more breathing, which distracts you from pain. Regular breathing can also provide enough oxygen for you and your baby, so labor runs much more smoothly. This can bring comfort to yourself and your baby who is also trying to get out.
In addition to teaching breathing techniques, Lamaze also teaches touch relaxation techniques to minimize pain. This touch relaxation technique allows your partner to participate in labor. Your partner learns to know which part of your muscle is tense and then your partner can touch it to help you relax the tense muscles.
You are also expected to focus when doing Lamaze at the time of delivery. Choose certain objects that make you focus, can be objects or just look into your partner's eyes. By looking into your partner's eyes, this can give you more strength, your partner can also practice breathing patterns with you, remind you to stay focused, and so on.
In addition to relieving pain, Lamaze is also designed to save your energy during childbirth, so you don't feel tired easily during labor or after delivery. If you want to learn how to do the Lamaze method further, you should follow the Lamaze class because there are many techniques to be taught. Don't forget to invite your partner to participate!
