Has anyone used tens as pain relief in pregnancy/labour? ?
Yes, I used it in both labours, and I liked it. It helped take the edge off the pain of the earlier contractions, and later on I had it cranked up and it felt like a massage on my back. It didn’t so much take the pain away, but it made me feel like I had some control, because I could start pressing the button when I felt the contraction starting, so I think it helped me feel I could do something about it. In my first labour I also used the gas and had pethidine, although in hindsight I asked for the pethidine when I had reached the “transition” stage where you hit a point where you think you can’t handle it anymore (but that means your baby is close to being born!). The midwife should have checked my dilation, as I was fully dilated. In the second labour I used TENS from the start and had a few sucks of the gas, then asked for pethidine again when I felt I literally could not stand another contraction no matter what, but the midwife this time checked my dilation and said, “I can feel a
