02/12/2025
🤰 Home to hospital in Labour 🤰
Have you thought about the impact on your feelings and emotions transferring from home to hospital whilst you're in labour? 🚗
The transfer can actually impact your labour so don't be surprised if surges (contractions) slow down or even stop.
Many women can find it disruptive as you move away from your safety net of home comforts.
Sometimes this shift in surroundings and leaving your home environment can heighten adrenaline (working against your oxytocin and endorphins - needed for strong, powerful and effective surges) or give the woman a feel of loss of control, which can put your body into a fight or flight mode, slowing surges and impacting how effective your body is working for labour.
Things that can help whilst you're on the journey to the hospital are:
🌿Calm breathing techniques
🌿Visualisations
🌿Taking home comforts such as a blanket or familiar item/smell
🌿Positive self affirmations
To learn more on how to use some great tools and techniques, as well as feeling calm, confident, and in control, then message me now 📩
I am a birth preparation, hypnobirthing, and pregnancy relaxation teacher in Dorset. I've worked with expectant parents, or just mums-to-be to help them feel informed, supported and confident about birth and the maternity system.
Suzannah