Best music during labor -
How to find the right child birth labor music cd

What is the best music during labor? There is no universal, clear answer to this. In order to find your answer, you must ask:

Which birth and labor music would suit You?

In this case You means both the mother, the baby, and the father / partner that is expected to assist at the birth. Yes, the unborn child can show you if it likes particular music - you can feel it!

Also, music must fulfill different needs at different stages of labor. So to answer the question...

...Best music during labor? It depends on the stage!

So much is happening during labor - which for some can take many hours - that you might feel a need to listen to different kinds of music at different stages. By the way, scientific research shows that music can either speed up labor or give you a feeling that the labor is shorter than it is. So let's take a look:

Best music during EARLY LABOR

There will be extended periods - especially during early labor (which can take many hours) where you want to relax and open up, so that you can easy the pain as well as gain strength - there are probably many hours of labor before you. At that point you might still be at home, maybe relaxing in a chair or in a hot bath - while listening to some nice, calm, peaceful and joyful music.

Best music during ACTIVE LABOR and TRANSITION

As you go into active labor and your level of pain increases both in strength and duration, you will probably no longer be able to just relax or distract yourself. You're totally into the labor now, and that's all that you can think of now. Fortunately music doesn't require your thinking or your attention as such. Due to your deep, natural connection with it, music can support you perfectly without you even being aware of it.

First of all, as you now probably will find yourself either at the hospital or birth center, music can create a warm and personal environment for the birth, lessening the hospital-like atmosphere.

Active labor is a time of great challenges, both physically and emotionally. Especially if you've done your "homework" - i.e. learned to relax with music throughout your pregnancy, - music can help you and your baby to relax in a profound ways. It will help you relax in a physical sense, so that you can embrace and flow with the waves of pain.

Also, active labor can feel like a time of crisis, great pressure being put not only on your body, but also on your feelings. Here music can support you emotionally, by creating an atmosphere of faith, and love and peace.
As you enter transition - the most intense part of labor, where the pain intensifies and the challenges are strongest - you will feel the need for deep emotional and spiritual support even more.

Best music during PUSHING

BIRTH music...

As you approach birth you won't think about music at all, I assure you! :-)

Your partner or helper can however support you and the baby by playing beautiful relaxing music, a loving and soft welcome to this world.

This is the CD chosen by a British governmental health program for mothers and babies

Music AFTER BIRTH

As you know you might experience some pain during the delivery of placenta, and also some afterbirth pains. Naturally, relaxation music will help with that too.

Best music during labor? It depends on your taste...

With the general outlines above you should be able to create a nice set of CDs that will support you during the various stages of labor. I'd suggest that you take some CDs with you that you, your baby and your partner have a positive long term relationship with so to speak... :-) CDs that have proven their worth throughout your pregnancy and that you all have a deep and loving connection with.

But how exactly do you choose the right  child birth labor music cd ?

Read our pregnancy, birth and labor music guidelines here

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