Labor!? Who's says it needs to be painful.

So, my husband and I recently began hypnobirthing classes. The focus of hypnobirthing is to make your birthing experience as pain-free and enjoyable as possible. It prepares you to be in tune with your body and do all you can to relax so your muscles can do what their meant to do. A lot of media tells us that childbirth always is a painful, quite dramatic experience. This creates a lot of fear in women and many go into labor not knowing that it can actually be a peaceful, beautiful experience. Fear created in women causes their bodies to go into fight-or-flight mode and the blood needed to loosen the uterine muscles right above the cervix (which allow the baby to come out) actually detracts from them and goes to other parts of the body, such as in the hands, feet, and brain, where they are not needed at the time. :) This causes much pain for women as other uterine muscles bring the baby down. I'm so excited to be learning of a very positive approach to childbirth rather than going into this whole experience with expectations I've been taught in the movies.