Comments on: Natural Childbirth: 7 Simple Secrets to Eliminate Labor Pain

By: chava Dumas

chava Dumas — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 07:36:15 +0000

Dear April, Shalom from Jerusalem! Not only do I greatly appreciate the information you have posted on your website, as I teach the same material/techniques/and tips in my birth preparation classes, but I also LOVE your beautiful artwork. Are you the artist?
Wishing you much success in your important work to help women experience birth as a positive, uplifting event!
All the best,
Chava
http://www.chavaddoula.com

By: Esther Croft

Esther Croft — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 04:52:25 +0000

Couldn’t have put it better myself, my son is nearly 3 weeks old and his birth wasn’t painful at any stage – some intense sensations but it was always completely manageable. The 8th secret I would add is choose your support people and environment carefully so that you always feel safe and supported and know that your interests are being advocated for when you are staying focused on the birth. Great article. Thanks.

By: Bliss

Bliss — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:29:08 +0000

Hi april!i want to thank you for your wonderful attitude. i am due in one week and over the past few weeks i have been reading your blog and it has helped me to feel truly prepared for the birth experience. Throughout this whole pregnancy, people have been talking to me about pain and everything i have read says pain pain pain… i have felt that it does not have to be pain. i had decided that i was going to embrace the sensation and let it happen and it wouldnt be painful for me. i felt like fighting against it would be what caused the pain. you are the only person who has expressed that same veiw.thank you so much for confirming what i have been telling myself and everyone this whole time. i am so glad to have learned your tips about keeping your jaw relaxed and spirlaing and i know they will be instrumental in the birth. Your birth video was beautiful and i was weeping in the best way by the end of it. I also read about your vision about special children coming here and i had a very similiar vision about my baby. it really is happening! you are great and i wish i could have taken your class, but i am in california.

By: Jacinthe

Jacinthe — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:00:39 +0000

Hello, thank you very much for this tips, I think they are great.
I just wanted to say that water really is the “natures epidural”, and if mothers doesn’t have the chance to have birth in the water, they can take a shower, that really helped me to eliminate labor pain.

By: April

April — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:44:52 +0000

That’s a really good question Joyce. I can totally relate. There were definately times when I was TIRED, my knees were hurting the whole deal. It REALLY helped a ton to be in the water because when I was just too tired to keep on spiraling my birth partner would hold my hands and move me in that spiral, and scince I was in the water my body just flowed in that spiral with his help and with little effort from me. But if the Momma doesn’t want to get in the water one way might be for her to lean over a birthing ball, with her chest lying on it, she would have to be on her knees but she could move her hips in that position or have her birth partner help her out. Also sitting on the ball while her birth partner holds her hands and helps her along that spiral is another option. Giving birth is in no way easy, it is hard work, and you do get tired, but you just gotta keep on going. Just like climbing a mountain, when you think you just can’t take another step, you do take one more and then another and before you know it you’ve made it to the top.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:18:11 +0000

I love this! I had water births with both my boys and used all these great techniques, I also tried to visualize my ideal birth over and over and over before it was even close to time. When it finally came it was better than I had even hoped for 🙂 intense yes, painful definetly not!

By: Joyce Pula

Joyce Pula — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:54:45 +0000

Very clear, and a lot I do use / suggest.

What do you do with the spiraling, when the woman is too tired to stand on her feet, she doesn’t want to go in the water (really feels uncomfortable there) & the knees hurt when on all fours? How can this be done in a i.e. side lying position?

thank you for your thoughts
Joyce

By: Joyce Pula

Joyce Pula — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:54:03 +0000

thank you for your thoughts
Joyce

By: April

April — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:33:00 +0000

Absolutely! When you allow birth to be gentle and not forced then that’s how it works, you end up feeling GREAT afterwards, and the healing time is alot less! I was the same way immediately afterwards I was feeling Amazing! That’s another one of the great “side effects” of having a natural birth where you are working with your body and not against it…the joy of having little to no side effects at all! It is important to note though, even if you do feel like Super Woman afterwards, like you want to get up and run around the house it’s still important to resist that urge and take it easy, allow your body the time to rest and heal. And take full advantage of other poeple taking care of you 😉

By: April

April — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:24:25 +0000

The power of suggestion is so awesome! I had a friend who went into the hospital to have her baby and she was doing fine, I mean she was feeling intense sensations and quite a bit of pressure, which of course is a normal part of birth but was totally ok with it. Well the nurse kept asking her if she wanted the epidural, and she kept saying, “no I’m fine.” And then the nurse said to her, “Honey you better do the epidural now because you are going to be in alot of pain!!!” And in that moment she said that is when the pain came rushing into the picture, suddenly she WAS in pain. The minute she allowed herself to believe the nurses suggestion that she was going to be in pain is the minute her birth became painful. That’s why it is so important to have the right people at your birth, only people you can trust to remain positive, loving and helpful, not inject their own negativity or fears on you. The wrong people can definately sabotage your birth!