@birthwithbex: that moment in labour when you go quiet, inward and can’t string a sentence together? that’s not you losing control… that’s your body working exactly as designed to! and it’s also the reason why some labours stall, whilst others are more efficient 🧠 (spoiler: they’re staying out of their thinking brain!) so.. you’ve got two brains at play in birth. your thinking brain - the neocortex. it reasons, plans, worries, processes language. it’s the part you run on all day. great for planning your baby shower, but not so much birthing your babe! and your primal brain - the older, deeper and more instinctive part. hormones and reflex. the part that has known how to birth babies for hundreds of thousands of years. in labour, the primal brain needs to lead - because birth was never a thinking task. it’s an instinctive one. so when your thinking brain stays switched on.. when you’re asked questions, feel watched, when bright lights and chatter drag you back into analysing.. it gets in the way. adrenaline sometimes rises. oxytocin can slow.. you get pulled up into your head at the exact moment you need to drop deeper in your body. SO.. going quiet and not wanting to be spoken to? that’s not a problem to fix. that’s your primal brain taking the wheel. your system doing precisely what it’s meant to. knowing this is so key because it means you can honour it!! which is why the whole job - yours and your birth partner’s - is to protect that state. this could look like.. dim lights. low voices. minimal questions. privacy. and so much more.. i teach exactly how to create and protect this state inside the Unmedicated Birth Kit. plus the hypnobirthing audios that help you drop into it quicker too. Bex xoxo

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