7. Getting a lot of electrolytes and minerals …
To ease the childbirth, you need a lot of electrolytes and minerals found in a variety of natural foods and drinks. Magnesium, potassium, sulphur, chloride, and sodium are especially important to prevent excessive pain and fatigue during labour.
Important minerals can be derived from fresh meats, full-fat dairy products, dolomite powder, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, freshly-squeezed juices, Celtic sea salt, and blackstrap molasses.
To restore energy reserves and the power of contractions during childbirth, it is recommended to take electrolytes in the form of trace mineral powder mixed in water or natural juice, as needed.
8. Preventing “sugar drops” …
To prevent “sugar drops” during labour, consider sipping small amounts of freshly-squeezed fruit juice with a high potassium content, such as orange juice, enriched with amino acid l-glutamine.
9. Getting or nor getting epidural …
Some obstetricians, such as Dr. Christiane Northrup in her best-selling book Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom, discourage women from applying to a help of epidural anaesthesia during labour and delivery.
Although this issue is controversial, the argument is that both the full-felt sensations and receptive mode are necessary for the most successful uterine functioning during childbirth.
Epidural anaesthesia can completely eliminate the pain of delivery, but it also can prolong labour and trigger some complications, such as maternal fever or the baby turning to a wrong position.
In addition, the use of anaesthesia can prevent the release of the “feel-good” neurotransmitter beta-endorphin, which is a natural anaesthetic produced by the woman’s body during and after the childbirth.
10. Learning to trust your body …
And, the most important piece of advice – learn to trust your body, which naturally and instinctively knows how to give birth!
Do you have tips of your own on how to make the delivery easier? Please do share, I’d love to hear from you…
Hi Amanda :
Am Bashaier from kuwait ,am expecting my third child soon. you know am not sure if what I will tell you is scientifically correct, yet some of thies tips are really usefull and made my earlier delivaries easier!
in my last pregnancy when i didnt deliver fast, as if it was ages since i got pregnant , my aunt adviced me to have sex , i did although i didnt have sex during the whole ninth month and i delivered the very next day . even in my first delivary, it was one day after my first aniversarry , so u can imagine the kind of sex we had :)
another advice we always hear, is to walk on the sand! since we had alot of sand in the past, ancient kuwaiti women counted on walking on the sand as an effecient way to deliver easiear, and it was really helpful with many!
another strange tip i heard was laying dawn in a tub filled with water and adding some Castor oil, and drinking some ,a woman i heard about used to do this in each pregnany and it was effecient to make her feel labor and deliver the same day.
well, that’s what i liked to share with u i hope u liked it, and hope it wasnt a long letter and boring one.
wish to hear back from u .
Yours,
Bashaier
Bashaier,
Thanks for those strange but wonderful suggestions :) There’s not a lot of sand around where I live but I’ll definitely keep the other tips in mind. We are always happy to hear from readers near and far!