Pregnancy is the onset of life and having a life inside your womb is the greatest experience a woman will ever have in her entire life.

Here are the different phases of giving birth:

First Phase

During this period of, the cervix begins to be flimsy and opens to three centimeters. You can actually feel the pain behind your back that you don’t know where it is coming from. The vaginal mucus may be blood-tinged and you will begin to feel that you are starting to have painful cramps in your tummy and back. You can feel the contractions and vaginal discharges are often too much and blood too comes from your uterus. In this hour, your contractions actually subside in every five minute and then intensify as the labor goes. You will still be talking or moving in your labor time but you have to be careful.

To help you ease from labor pains, somebody must be beside you to give comfort and care. Here’s how you will lessen the burden of going through:

You need to eat so that you will have the stamina as you go through the course of giving birth. Some of the foods suggested for you to eat are soup, jam, honey, egg, milk and crackers.

Rest while your labor is not yet that intense; relax your mind and body by meditating through prayer and positive thoughts.

Second Phase (Nimble Drudge)

During this phase, the contractions become stronger; the gap of having cramps shortens and you can actually feel that the pain is increasing and it’s as if your tummy is going to blow. You can no longer talk because the pain of contractions. You waiting on when the next pain will occur. You can no longer stand or walk but simply just lie down on the bed and wait for your labor.

Here’s what to do to manage labor pain:

• You can ask the doctor for a pain reliever to help lessen the pain.
• You must pee once in a while or every hour or two
• Absorb humor for spirit
• Drink fresh nectar from fruits to have enough endurance
• Change your position if necessary

Last Phase (Transition)

At this stage of labor, the orifice has opened into ten centimeters. You may experience lifelong, bear down contractions with a little gap of time between every contraction. You may feel an urge to push the baby inside your womb in every contraction your tummy would feel. You will also feel that

• Your body trembles because of pain
• You have the urge to vomit
• You tend to become irritable
• Clamoring of a backache
• Depression or despair may set in
• You may feel hotter or even colder
• Disgorgement
• Peevishness

When the Baby Arrives

This is the time when the opening to your womb has fully taken its course into ten centimeters and contractions are so close together. You may not be able to concentrate and even become restless during this stage. During this time:

• Your instinct will help you know how to push.
• Every time the contraction intensifies; this is the time that you have to push.
• Your attending nurse and midwife will help you go through the process.
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After the Baby Arrives

After giving birth, you may still feel shaky but you need to have a renewed energy so that you easily recover and feed your baby. You will have more contractions as the placenta comes out. You seem very mushy at this case during the travail.

The pain of labor and the tiresome ordeal that you have gone through for the day will give you a lasting relief once you will see and cuddle your little baby in your arms.