u/Glass_Tradition5830

I am a Midwife and I was wondering if people who freedive can handle birth labor and contractions „better“ than let‘s say the general birthing person with no such experience?

Since the best way to handle contractions in birth is to breathe through it, trying to relax into it and not fighting the feeling, knowing that the contraction will pass after about a minute, I was thinking, freedivers must be really good at handling labor, because that is essentially what freeding teaches you.

So if any of you have given birth, what was your experience? Were you able to use the tools you knew from freediving?