CONDITIONS - What are we asking your body to do within?
In this episode, we're exploring the fourth word in my SPACE Framework™: Conditions.
When we talk about preparing for birth, much of the focus is placed on what you can do. You can learn about the physiology of labour, understand what your body is doing, practise breathing and relaxation, think about movement, explore your options and prepare yourself for the experience ahead.
But your body doesn't experience labour in isolation from everything around you. It is doing the work of labour within a set of circumstances, and those circumstances can influence the way you experience what is happening.
The people around you, the language being used, whether you feel safe or exposed, whether you are being interrupted, whether you understand what is happening and whether you feel rushed or supported all become part of the conditions in which you are experiencing labour.
The question I want you to take away from this episode is:
Are the conditions around you supporting what you're asking your body to do?
Because we can spend a great deal of time preparing for labour, learning about physiology and thinking about how we want to approach birth, but it is also worth considering the circumstances surrounding you while you're asking your body to do that work.
Your body doesn't labour separately from you, and you don't experience labour separately from the conditions surrounding you.
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