You know how much it can impact enjoying your life. If you have anxiety, you know it’s no joke to feel that something is constantly holding you back – or that the sky is going to fall in on you at any second. However, chronic anxiety is not meant to be a daily part of the human experience and can lead to stress which leads to cortisol dysregulation that can eventually impact not just your emotional well-being but your physical health as well. In many cases, it can be fleeting natural even, to feel anxious before, say, your wedding, or the birth of your child, or in the midst of a major life change. With a multitude of guises, it can present itself in your life as insomnia, depressions, fatigue, addiction self-medication, job or relationship paralysis, and more. And, thankfully, there are many different types of herbs and plant medicine that can help with anxiety.īut before we get to the solutions, it's important to recognize that anxiety is real. Herbs For Anxiety: My Take As An Herbalist & Doctorįrom occasional circumstantial anxiety - like the stomach butterflies you get before an important event, performance triggered nerves, or going-to-the-dentist jitters - to full-blown generalized anxiety disorders (GAD) with panic attacks and debilitating phobias, there are many different types of anxiety.
This is the moment where midwives catch each others eye and smile, they know, it's happening!Īs a birth partner, if you're not anticipating this change, it can feel quite scary! So, knowing what it is makes it much easier to remain calm and be the steady reassurance your partner needs during this potentially wobbly stage of labour. The other thing that may happen (more commonly in my experience) is that you might hit PANIC MODE! You may not realise you're in it yourself, but your birth partner will! This is the moment where women often say 'I WANT TO GO HOME NOW' 'I NEED AN EPIDURAL' or 'I CAN'T DO IT ANY MORE!', women often position themselves closer to the floor and make some pretty guttural, primal sounds (a lot like a cow mooing). Turn out the lights, have a kiss or a cuddle, breathe deeply and let that oxytocin flow! The result of a huge (but necessary) surge in adrenalin. It may well just be the 'calm before the storm' your body rebuilding the energy it needs for the part of labour.
This can go one of two way, or maybe a combo of the 2! After hours of steady labouring, things might all slow down. So, internally there's hormonal changes and muscle changes, but what about externally/emotionally? The period in between of 'swapping over' is called transition. In the second stage the roles reverse & the round muscles squeeze your baby down and out to be born, whilst the long muscles relax out of the way. This causes the muscles of the uterus to change over jobs- our uterine muscles work in pairs- long muscles contract during the first stage of labour and round muscles relax, causing the cervix to draw up and stretch over our baby's head (or bottom). In labour, somewhere between your cervix stretching fully open & the urge to push kicking in, you have a HUGE (and completely normal) surge in adrenalin.
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