You could remind yourself that the new intensity is a sign that labour is progressing and that it is a normal part of the process. counting as you breathe out to slow your breathing down.concentrating on your breathing and deliberately slowing it down.You may find that the distraction techniques that worked for you during Early Labour will be helpful again now for example: If you start to feel fearful for yourself or your baby, try to remember that this can be a normal response to the hormones driving Transition. Women often become very fearful in Transition, this is due to the effects of the hormones and not necessarily because anything is wrong. Even though nor-adrenaline will 'bring you round', your brain is still bathed in some very powerful neuro-chemicals (oxytocin and endorphin) and things will not feel normal. ![]() Your body will release nor-adrenaline in preparation for the birth, this will wake you up and make you more reflective upon the experience of your labour. These responses can be a good indicator that the baby’s birth is not far off. It is often the time when many women want to give up. This can make Transition an extremely challenging time. Women who have been in an altered state of consciousness during Established Labour, tend to ‘wake up’ again in Transition, due to nor-adrenaline release. The baby moves deeper into the pelvis and completes its rotation to bring its back to the mother's the front. This brings the baby’s head directly onto the cervix, triggering a strong release of oxytocin which results in heavy, intense and sustained contractions. If the waters haven’t gone yet, they may go now because of the force from these powerful contractions. These contractions are so powerful, they can open the cervix rapidly and the last couple of centimetres of cervix is pulled up into the uterus in a relatively short space of time. Nor-adrenaline is the hormone which drives the body’s expulsive birth reflex and so the woman's body is getting ready to push the baby out.ĭuring transition contractions are at their longest (60 – 70 seconds), their strongest and are very close together (2 minutes), sometimes they are even on top of each other, or with double peaks. Transition is a distinct phase due to the fact that the woman's body now starts to release the hormone nor-adrenaline. Transition is often the 'crisis point' for labouring women, for this reason. Nor-adrenaline 'wakes up' the woman at the most intense point in the labour process. The release of this hormone in the presence of the existing chemical cocktail swirling around in the woman's blood stream, triggers the expulsive contractions which will push the baby out. It is at this point that the body spontaneously releases nor-adrenaline. Transition can be only a few contractions long, or it might last for a couple of hours. ![]() ![]() Contractions are at their most powerful and intense, and come close together. This is the phase between Established Labour and the Birth, where the cervix dilates from 7 or 8 centimetres throught to 10 centimetres or full dilatation.
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