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Lamaze for Parents : Blogs : LamazeZoeticLoginRequest LoginToggle navigationHome Healthy Pregnancy Healthy PregnancyPregnancy NutritionSex During PregnancySigns of PregnancyFinding a Healthcare Provider10 Healthy Pregnancy TipsKnow the FactsTips for Pregnancy PartnersDue Date DanceBed Rest Planning for Labor Planning for LaborBirth TeamStages of LaborBirth PlanLabor Positions10 Labor TipsMaternal InstinctsBirth Day, Your WayThe Waiting GameLamaze BreathingCesareanSensationResources Birth Day Birth DayHealthyLineagePracticesBirth Decision GuidesBirth Partner Cheat SheetMedical InterventionsEstablishing Breastfeeding New Parents New ParentsBeyondLineageDayNursing SchoolPacifiersSleep TightBaby BluesGettingWhento WorkBaby's Developmental MilestonesPlayful ParentsFun FacesReach for the Stars Lamaze Classes Find a Local ClassOnline ClassesPurchase Lamaze Guide Your Resources Lamaze Mobile AppOnline ClassesBirth BlogOnline Spanish Resources for ParentsParent Resource RoundupHealthyLineagePracticesBirth Decision GuidesWeekly EmailsPush for Your BabyVideo LibraryOther Parent Resources About Lamaze About LamazeThe Lamaze DifferenceHealthyLineagePracticesShop For a CauseMythsWell-nighLamazeHistoryMarketing & AdvertisingContact Us In the News News ReleasesLamaze in the News Planning for Labor LamazeZoeticLamazeZoetic   April is CesareanSensationMonth  LineageTeam       - Tips for Finding a Doula   Stages of Labor  LineagePlan   Labor Positions       - Movement in Labor   10 Labor Tips   Maternal Instincts  LineageDay, Your Way   The Waiting Game   LamazeZoetic LineageTeam       - Tips for Finding a Doula   Stages of Labor  LineagePlan   Labor Positions       - Movement in Labor   10 Labor Tips   Maternal Instincts  LineageDay, Your Way   The Waiting Game   LamazeZoeticWhat You Need to Know By Judith A. Lothian, RN, PhD, LCCE, FACCE, and Charlotte De Vries Adapted from The Official Lamaze Guide: GivingLineagewith ConfidenceZoeticin Pregnancy:  A Daily Check-in Finding the time, energy, and peace to squatter your fears—or do anything that requires mental focus—is a rencontre in our culture. One pregnant woman shared that without years of working at her office, she’d tuned out the sounds of phones ringing and computers clicking. She didn’t plane notice how noisy her office was until an older coworker looked at her wideness the wall of desks and said, “You’re bringing this child into a world of sounds my babies never heard.” It’s true: In just a decade or two, technology has reverted the world dramatically. From lamina phones to smart phones, from microwave ovens to Facebook friends, from high-definition DVDs to iPads, technology fills our days with vivid images and messages. It’s a noisy, rented world that can prod out the peace we need to connect with ourselves. Connecting with yourself is an important task during your pregnancy.  It’s a big job to pay sustentation to all the physical, emotional, and spiritual changes you’re experiencing. It takes concentration to envision a future that includes a new role and a new person. Finding a place of stillness for a few moments each day can help you do this crucial work.Planeif your space and your schedule are crowded, you can find a place and time to alimony a daily visit with yourself. Perhaps you can retreat to the corner of your bedroom, the bathroom, a closet, or an empty room at your workplace. Perhaps you can sneak a moment surpassing others wake up, without they’ve gone to bed, surpassing you get in the shower, or during your lunch break. You might want to “check in” at the same time each day so you treat this visit with yourself as the important time it is. Your daily check-in may be a few moments of silence, meditation, or prayer. You can use this time to get in touch with not only your feelings, but moreover your soul and the little one who is taking up increasingly and increasingly of it. Close your vision for a moment and listen to your breathing, then take an inventory of yourself: Are there any tense areas in your body—neck, shoulders, throat, hands or back? Is anything nagging at your mind? Doing a full-body and -mind trammels will help you identify what needs to be released, relaxed, or dealt with.ZoeticBenefits from Yoga Practice Yoga, an warmed-over form of exercise that includes vapor control, meditation, and soul postures, has wilt popular among pregnant women. It’s easy to understand why: Many yoga exercises include movements that unshut the pelvis. Yoga moreover teaches rhythmic breathing, concentration, stamina building, and relaxation. Some women who do yoga report improved physical coordination and increasingly well-turned emotions. Lamaze Classes andZoeticLamaze is not just well-nigh breathing. Lamaze classes prepare women for a safe, healthy lineage by providing the most current, evidence-based information well-nigh birth, simplifying birth, and helping women navigate the maze of modern maternity care. Be wary of “Lamaze” classes that spend a lot of time practicing relaxation and zoetic and little or no time towers your conviction or discussing how to alimony things simple and how to have the safe, healthy lineage you want in the lineage setting you have chosen. Breathing: Finding Comfort in Labor When unliable and encouraged to, a woman will naturally move, moan, sway, transpiration her zoetic pattern, and waddle to cope with contractions, sooner finding the right rhythm for her unique needs. Such zippy comfort-seeking helps her victual rotate and descend and helps prevent her labor from stalling. As her contractions get stronger, her soul releases endorphins—nature’s narcotic—to ease her pain. ConsciousZoeticConscious zoetic (especially slow breathing) reduces heart rate, anxiety, and pain perception. It works in part considering when zoetic becomes a focus, other sensations (such as labor pain) move to the whet of your awareness. Conscious zoetic is an expressly useful labor tool considering it not only keeps you and your victual well oxygenated, it’s moreover easy to learn and use. It’s naturally rhythmic and easy to incorporate into a ritual. And weightier of all, zoetic is the one coping strategy that can’t be taken yonder from you—even if you’re stuck in bed tying to an electronic fetal monitor and intravenous fluids. Conscious (or patterned) zoetic used to be the hallmark of Lamaze childbirth education. For many women, it’s still an important way to stay relaxed and stay on top of their contractions. It’s true that conscious zoetic can help you relax and finger less pain during contractions.  There’s no “right” way to outbreathe in labor, despite what others may tell you. Slow, deep zoetic helps most women manage the pain of contractions. But the right way for you to outbreathe is whatever feels right to you. Issues like your number of breaths per minute, zoetic through your nose or your mouth, or making sounds (like hee-hee) with your breaths are only important if they make a difference for you. It may help you to have a visual focus to trailblaze your conscious breathing. You can recall an image with your vision closed, focus on a picture or special object from home, alimony your vision on your partner, or simply stare at a spot on the wall. You may moreover find that as labor progresses, faster, shallower breathing—like a dog gently panting—feels better. You’ll icon out what works weightier for you. And what works weightier will probably transpiration as you move through labor. Many women “practice” zoetic during pregnancy by using conscious zoetic when everyday life presents stressful situations, like stuff unprotected in traffic, running late for an important meeting, or worrying well-nigh any number of things. Find Your Rhythm At some point in labor, you’ll “find your rhythm” or “get in a groove,” much like a marathon runner does. You’ll be living in the moment, doing without thinking.  To others you’ll towards to be in flipside world. Your movements will be rhythmic; you’ll relax between contractions; you’ll respond to contractions in the same way over and over again, perhaps shaking your arms, rolling your head, zoetic slowly, chanting, or praying. You’ll be totally focused, but you won’t necessarily squint comfortable. You’ll squint like you’re working very, very hard—which you are. When this happens, you’ll know endorphins are working their magic—dulling your pain and helping you ride your contractions intuitively. You’ll be doing exactly what you need to do. You won’t need to be rescued; in fact, the worst thing that could happen to you at this point is to be disturbed or interrupted. A healthy dose of encouragement, support, and respect are all you’ll need from your support team. Released: April 24, 2012 02:57 PM | Updated: October 12, 2016 10:01 AM Keywords: Planning for Labor | LamazeZoetic2 Likes To leave a comment, click on the  icon on the left side of the screen.   Recent Stories Getting the Most from Your Hospital Tour Updated 11:21AM EST, Tue Mar 7th, 2017 A hospital tour is a unconfined opportunity to gather important information to help make sure your baby's inrush is as smooth as possible. CesareanSensationUpdated 10:43AM EDT, Tue Oct 18th, 2016 Did you know April is CesareanSensationMonth? LamazeZoeticUpdated 10:01AM EDT, Wed Oct 12th, 2016 Finding the time, energy, and peace to squatter your fears—or do anything that requires mental focus—is a rencontre in our culture. 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