Pregnancy

The Alexander Technique

The Alexander Technique is not only for women during labor and delivery. This technique aids in getting mind and body to work together by getting rid of old habits and learning new postural habits, works with solving movement problems and improves coordination and balance. The reason is so wonderful for pregnant women is that it teaches them what their body is going through during pregnancy, labor and delivery and helps them work with their body instead of against it causing undo stress and pain.

Carry the extra weight of your little one around all day and night in your uterus causes many women back pain. This is because no one has explained how you should change your posture to accommodate the added weight. Your balance changes as the baby grows and you need to make adjustments as well. The Alexander Technique teaches you how to carry yourself to relieve the added weight and pressure that are caused by your growing baby.

Your entire internal organs must move and accommodate your baby; this can bring you all kinds of uncomfortable feelings including shortness of breath and constipation. However, using the Alexander Technique you will learn to work with your own body to relieve this compression and give yourself room to breathe.

Not only will you be able to work with your body with the help of the Alexander Technique but you will learn the proper way in which to stand, sit, rise from a chair, lie down, sleep, walk and so much more to ensure that you are comfortable and your baby is as well.

Learning that pain is just a part of labor and delivery and how you can work with the pain to even ease the pain is the most gratifying part of using the Alexander Technique during delivery. Using medications to relieve the pain can in fact make labor and delivery last even longer, however using the Alexander Technique you will be able to control the pain to a certain degree and speed up labor and delivery.

The Alexander Technique has aided many women during labor and delivery by creating a pleasant atmosphere and working with their own bodies to breathe and calm their system, focus during the birth, aid their bodies in opening the cervix, and instead of fighting the pain working through the pain.