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Advice from Health Professional – Midwife, Catina Adams
We love Catina Adams advice on what partners can do to help a woman feel good in Labour. Love definitely counts for so much when it comes to birth. A partner that can express their love and support through touch, words and their energy makes an enormous difference to the birthing woman.
Oxytocin, the hormone of love is released when a woman feels loved and safe and this is the hormone that creates contractions and helps move the birth along. So if a woman is feeling all loved up, often she will relax and her hormones will flow, making for a smoother birth.
So if partners have no idea what to do in labour, then just love the birthing woman. There is a cheeky saying " the way you make the baby, is the way the baby comes out" so use your loving support to make this a great experience for both of you.
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