What is the transition
Tags: childbirth, The experience of childbirth, Transition period during childbirth
In all women, when they reached full expansion, there is a period shorter or longer in which contractions slow down. This is crucial to allow the uterus to eat before taking the subsequent expulsive phase. This period is called “transition” and is a necessary and delicate, so much the woman as the child should be prepared for a new job, which will lead to more active involvement. is the period in which both must draw the abandonment of the old situation.
The momentum that is described here is the fight-flight instinct, which is a normal physiological mechanism present in all mammals, related to danger. It prepares the animal or human being to react, through the rapid activation of all autonomic functions necessary for an escape or attack cardiac acceleration, increased breathing rate, muscle tension, increased attention and vigilance.
Childbirth, women may react to attack perceived (the sensation of pain is automatically associated by the brain to the danger and damage) in very different ways: it can experience anger, vomiting, crying. is quite natural, even events that you can scare like vomiting are functional to accelerated cervical. However, it should not be frightened because it facilitates the rapid relaxation overcome this difficult phase. In other women in transition faints perceived as simply a slowing of labor.
it should be noted that this stage has been programmed by nature because the woman let go of its rational control and abandon completely what is going to address the expulsive phase in a slightly altered state of consciousness, acting positively on the perceived pain and experience of childbirth as a whole.