The first thing I do when I arrive to a clients birthing space is set the room. The following tips can drastically help a mother feel relaxed and therefore, safe to fully embody the birthing experience:

• turn off or dim all the lights

• turn on candles (or battery tea lights if in hospital)

• hang string lights

• get out the birthing ball (hospitals typically have one but i always bring my own with a pump because in rare cases they run out or are too soft)

• turn on relaxing music or birthing affirmation playlist

• create a floor nest

• set up the rebozo or create a birth rope using a hospital sheet

• turn on essential oil diffuser (clary sage and lavender)

• bring out the tens machine and theragun

• bring ice chips in a jar for mom to chew on and stay hydrated

• Create hydration infusions such as, nettle tea orcoco and chlorophyll water

For birth to proceed optimally, an optimal hormonal orchestration must occur.

For this to occur, the hormones of love, pleasure, safety and excitement must be active. These hormones are known as Oxytocin, Beta-Edorphin, Catecholamines, and Prolactin. When produced, these hormones can cause a shift in consciousness that allows the body to enter what some women describe as “an ecstatic and painless laborland.” Things that can prevent the release of these magical hormones are: bright lights, extensive conversation, decision making, disturbance, lack of support.

In knowing this knowledge, we can understand the important role your environment and setting can play on the birthing process.

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