A friend of mine said, you know the feeling when you have a bad period pain and you kind of crunch up? Tense your muscles? Let everything relax, it's hard, but don't "suck" everything in, my contractions were approx 30-50 seconds each time, which is such a small amount of time in reality, my MW and sister were amazing at passing each contraction, talking me through it quietly.. I counted to 5 on each breath in and each breath out.. The place I was in, sounds so stupid, I wasn't in that room, my eyes were closed, I was counting my breathing and hearing the words they were saying.. If I hadn't of been in that "place" I don't think I would have coped as well as I did xx