

Redefining Pain In Labour
When I ask my classes what is a fact they know about birth, invariably 60+% of the answers are usually, "It's painful". And of course that answer leads us to a feeling of dread. We don't want to be in pain. For our whole lives we have been told that pain is bad. And for the most part that's true. Sick pain is a signal to our brains that tells us something is wrong. That we need to seek to help and get, whatever is causing the pain, fixed so that the pain will stop. Howe