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  • Home
    • Meet the team
  • Pregnancy
    • Eating well
      • A healthy balance
      • What foods do for us
      • What foods and drinks should I avoid in pregnancy?
      • Healthy eating habits
      • Portion sizes
      • Healthy snacks
      • Healthy Start scheme
      • Let's talk about salt
      • Let's talk about sugar
      • Eating well quiz
    • Keeping active
      • Benefits of keeping active
      • What activities can I do?
    • Healthy lifestyles
      • Emotional wellbeing
      • Recharging your batteries
      • Maintaining a healthy weight during pregnancy
      • Sleep and rest
      • Oral health in pregnancy
      • Smoking in pregnancy
      • Alcohol and drug use
      • Top tips for change
    • Family relationships
      • Bonding with your bump
      • Bonding with your baby
      • Relationships after the birth of your baby
      • Staying connected
      • Being a lone parent
    • Labour and birth
      • Getting ready for labour
      • Self-help in the early stages of labour
      • Pain management options in labour
      • Birth planning
      • Labour and birth quiz
  • After Birth
    • Feeding your baby
      • Breastfeeding your baby
      • Positioning and attachment
      • Expressing colostrum antenatally
      • Combination feeding
      • Bottle feeding your baby
      • Sterilising bottles
      • Making up bottles
      • Skin-to-skin contact
      • Feeding cues
      • Winding your baby
    • Caring for your baby
      • Caring for your baby’s umbilical cord
      • Topping and tailing
      • Bathing your baby
      • Changing your baby’s nappy
      • Inside the nappy
      • Baby massage
      • Soothing your baby
      • Why are they still crying?
    • Communication and play
      • Language milestones
      • Play and language
      • Play
  • Contact us
  • Join us

Pain management options in labour

Feeling discomfort in labour is completely natural and it’s reassuring to know that your body knows what it’s doing – keeping positive is one of the best ways you can help yourself to stay strong along with having the support of your midwife and birthing partner

Every baby is different, and therefore every labour and birth will be an individual experience – remember your midwife is there to support you and promote your choices, whilst at the same time making sure that you and your baby are safe.

Let’s have a look at the different ways you can support what your body to do what it does naturally.

TENS machines

Water birth

Gas and air (Entonox)

Pethidine injections

Epidural and spinal

Alternative methods of pain relief

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