Oh, I had heard of tranquilizers being given to women. The challenge was to write a post around the word “pant,” just in case you couldn’t tell. Written for this week’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt from Linda G. To this day, though, I tell my daughter, who was born that night, that being there for her birth really knocked me out! Still, I was mortified by my failure as her labor coach. I somehow managed to black out and, on my way to the floor, I knocked my head on the metal railing of her hospital bed.įortunately I was revived just before they wheeled my wife to the delivery room. I must have been a little too exuberant in my pant-pant-blow technique. I had a major headache and a bandage on my forehead.
The next thing I remember was waking up in the other bed in my wife’s hospital room. My poor wife was in the middle of an intense contraction and we were pant-pant-blowing together. I was there for her, holding her hand, mopping her brow, and pant-pant-blowing right along with her.īetween contractions, I was dropping pinches of shaved ice into her mouth like a mother bird feeding her chicks.Īnd then the wheels came off the bus. Within an hour her contractions started coming fast and furious and that’s when she really needed my help. So her doctor decided to give her Pitocin to speed things up. She was only about five centimeters dilated after about six hours and her contractions to that point had been fairly mild. I had a small, brown paper bag for her to breathe into should she start to hyperventilate or feel dizzy while doing the breathing exercises we’d learned. I was armed with a large cup of shaved ice in case her mouth got dry. She got settled in her room in the maternity ward, where, in my role as her coach, I was by her side. Well, one night my wife’s water broke and we headed to the hospital. That breathing in and panting out should take about 10 seconds and should be repeated until the contraction stops.
She needed to take a deep breath in through your nose when her contraction started and then exhale in two short pants followed by one longer blow. Our Lamaze instructor told my wife that as her contractions became more intense, she should exhale in a pant-pant-blow pattern. One such breathing technique is referred to as “pant-pant-blow.” He was to be her coach, and as such, he, too, needed to learn the proper breathing techniques in order to help his wife manage the trauma of labor and delivery. Naturally, this lesson was intended for the soon-to-be mother to learn breathing techniques during labor.
#I remember you how to
One of the key learnings from the Lamaze class was how to breathe. These classes teach young couples how to prepare for childbirth and, more importantly, how to make it through labor and delivery. The first time my wife got pregnant we were advised by her OB/GYN to enroll in a Lamaze class.
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