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I know that others will know more about this but a hormone is
actually produced which is produced more during fear or stress and it can
actually stop labour. Forgotten it's name but studies have been done
on this.
I am sure fear plays a huger role in how womens labour progresses as
my contractions stopped as soon as the ob walked into the room and i
didn't have another until he left. This is probably why he kept
saying, "If she is in labour" My body physically froze with fear of
him, my mind went foggy and I could not function properly at all - I just
wanted tor un but was trapped. I was so terrified of him that
I just did not want him to touch my baby and I am sure this is why my
labour did not progress well. I remember him taking off his
coat and trowing it into the cot that was there 'for baby' and when he did
that i knew that my baby was not going to be in that cot and I was not
going to deliver him in that room. I was just so appauled that he
could put his clothing there as it would "put his germs" onto the
cot. That was my weird logic at the time, I could almost say that I
saw his aura on him and his clothing and it was a really disgusting
- pure evil. Even the thought that he cut me open makes my
skin crawl - even now. Yucky horrible man!
If someone had been just a little
reassuring or possitive - I think that things would
have been a lot different. I never pushed once even though i wanted
to badly - i was so scared I just held it all in. Each contraction I
tried to pull my baby up inside me so that they could not get
him. Thinking about it now I really feel that I faught against the
contractions - I coped with them but did not go with them.
I am possitive that this is why I did not deliver him as I have never
in my life ever been so scared of a person and this did affect my
labour.
Even 8 weeks after I had George the Dr came to my shop and as he
approached I took off into town - pushing the pram as fast as I could - he
followed me and I was terrified - I ran as fast as I could and avoided
him. Thank goodness he has never tried to speak with me again as I
just could not even look at him. I guess he realised that when i did not
stop for a chat! LOL - Did not expect him to chase me down the
road though. What an idiot, I have a feeling he wanted to stop me
making the complaints I made.
Rhonda.
-------Original Message-------
Date: Wednesday,
November 20, 2002 14:39:19
Subject: [ozmidwifery]
birth and the power of the mind
I have often thought that the power of the
mind would have a vast impact on labour and so forth. Haven't 'been there'
for too many birth and each has been with women who were really sure,
informed and so forth, but fear played a HUGE factor in my
experiences. Could people please share their knowledge on how fear
can impact (or doesn't if the case may be) on labour lengths and
especially in regards to vbac. My vbac although supported and
informed was still long and hard, but the second vbac was great as there
was that self assuredly and understanding that my body knew what it was
meant to do so my brain didn't fear what my uterus was doing.
Also does anyone have comments on "is simply
providing information alleviate fear?" When women are 'empowered
through information' is this really all that needs to be done to empower,
or does faith have an important role to play? Does the faith or
trust of those around the birthing women have an impact on her
empowerment?
There's a couple of questions for those
beautiful midwifery students to ponder (and the seasoned
professional).
Jo Bainbridge
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