Pregnancy tips Hypnosis and Acupuncture For Labor Pains?

Even though I took prenatal classes which included some pain management techniques, when those labor pains started, I basically panicked. The only thing I wanted at that point was an epidural. But if you can prepare, there are other ways to manage the pain of labor. Read more:

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" Women looking to alleviate their labor pains may one day be able to request non-drug therapies like hypnosis or acupuncture in place of drugs. A review appearing in the current issue of The Cochrane Library says that results from alternative pain relieving therapies - long used by midwives in home births - have been very positive.

A large number of alternative pain relieving therapies were studied during the trial, but only hypnosis and acupuncture had a noticeable effect. The researchers found that hypnosis reduced the need for both pain relief and labor augmentation drugs, and also increased the number of natural vaginal births. Women treated with acupuncture also found that they could deal with their labor pains far better than women who did not receive treatment."