How to eliminate the fear of childbirth in pregnant women

People will feel fear when facing unknown things, even pregnant women will feel fear of childbirth. So how to eliminate the fear of childbirth for pregnant women? How to reduce the pain of childbirth? Will the fear of pregnant women affect the fetus? The following editor will introduce you in detail.

How to eliminate the fear of childbirth

Distracting attention

This is the idea of ​​"things will work out when the time comes". Don't take childbirth as a serious matter, avoid talking about it with your family, and don't listen to other people's childbirth experiences. Doing so can temporarily divert attention from the fear, but it cannot fundamentally eliminate the fear of childbirth.

Facing the fear of childbirth

Discuss the birthing with your family repeatedly, think through all the possible problems in advance, and find solutions to each problem. Make good material preparations before the birthing so that you will not be in a rush and it will also help stabilize your emotions.

Master relevant knowledge

Most of people's fears are caused by lack of scientific knowledge and wild imagination. Some scholars say: "Stupidity and instability produce fear, while knowledge and security reject fear." Some scholars further point out that "when knowledge is complete, all fears will disappear." Therefore, during pregnancy, it is recommended that pregnant women read some books about childbirth. After understanding the entire childbirth process, they will replace the fearful mentality with a scientific mind. This method is not only effective, but also increases knowledge.

How to reduce labor pain

Warm water bath for labor pain relief

Experts point out that before entering the delivery room, you may want to take a warm bath. With the help of the buoyancy of warm water, offsetting the gravity can help pregnant women better promote the expansion of the cervix. At the same time, it helps to receive the strong outflow force in the body, relieves the tension of the mother, effectively reduces the pain of labor, and can better carry out smooth delivery and shorten the delivery process.

Husband's encouragement during childbirth

Nowadays, many maternity and infant hospitals provide family-style deliveries through family-style arrangement of delivery rooms and the presence of the mother's husband and family members during delivery. These methods make good use of the psychological comfort and support of family affection for the mother, thereby eliminating their fear of hospitals, reducing pain reflexes, and creating a favorable environment and conditions for an easy delivery.

Music for labor analgesia

During childbirth, you may want to let the mother listen to some music that has a soothing effect, which is also a way to relieve pain during childbirth. The auditory center and the pain inhibition center are very close in the brain. Under the guidance of a professional music psychotherapist, this type of music can stimulate the brain to secrete endorphins, adjust the auditory center to an excited state, and inhibit the pain center to reduce the pain of childbirth. In addition, music can relieve anxiety and help speed up the process of childbirth. If the music you hear is the music you usually use during relaxation training, then whenever you hear it, your body and mind will automatically relax.

Will pregnant women's fear affect the fetus?

The mood of pregnant women not only directly affects their own health, but also has a great impact on the fetus. Medical research shows that when pregnant women are in a good mood, they can secrete some beneficial hormones, enzymes and acetylcholine in their bodies, which are beneficial to the normal growth and development of the fetus. When pregnant women are in a bad mood, such as when they are in a state of stress or anxiety, they will produce a large amount of adrenal cortex hormones, which will enter the fetus through blood circulation, causing the fetus to have the same emotions as the mother and destroying the normal development of the embryo. A large amount of survey data shows that when pregnant women are in negative mental states such as fear, anger, irritability, and sadness, the functions of various parts of the body will change significantly, leading to changes in blood components and affecting the normal development of the fetus' body and brain.