While it might seem like a baby simply slides through its mother’s pelvis to be born; in fact the baby makes a series of twists and turns in order to emerge. Called the Cardinal movements, these extensions and rotations help the baby find the best fit to spiral down and out of the body.
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The Fear-Tension-Pain cycle can have a dramatic impact on how we experience the sensations of labor, and thus on our ability to work with those sensations. Simply put, when we are afraid, our bodies tense, and when we are holding excessive tension in muscles, we feel more discomfort, and an understandable emotional response to feeling increased discomfort and pain would be greater fear, and thus we create a downward spiral.
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