My son Jay is my first child, and my labour was only around 7 and a half hours long — with 5 and a half of those spent at home thanks to my Labour TENS machine!
I may have been in early labour for a few days because I woke at 1230 midnight and my waters broke. Within 15 mins I was having 45-second contractions every four minutes and they kept on coming on stronger and stronger.
I got my husband to attach the TENS machine at 2.30am and at first, I was not sure if it was helping so I took it off. OH BOY WAS IT HELPING!!
I stayed at home until 5.30am with the TENS machine. At this point, the contractions were coming a minute on, a minute off and they were sore!
We called the midwife and headed to the hospital where I was fully dilated and within half an hour I was beginning to push.
My son was born 1.5 hours later and it was an amazing feeling to have laboured with minimal pain relief and in a relatively relaxed frame of mind. The TENS machine helped me to stay at home for the majority of the labour which, I believe, brought my son to me so quickly.
I recommend this product to all my friends who are about to give birth!
