If you wish to nurture a positive attitude towards the labour pain, you can try exploring and understanding your own beliefs and perceptions towards the pain of labour. Often a personal insight can enable you to learn how you will deal with the experience of labour and help develop specific coping strategies to assist you throughout the labour and birth.
Whether your attitudes are to avoid medical pain relief (or not to experience labour pain at all if possible), source out information about all the options available. This can help you achieve a positive labour experience and make it easier for the partner or support person to be 'in tune' with the woman's needs and how best to support them.
Identifying your own beliefs and perceptions
Try this questionnaire with your partner. It may trigger some thoughts about your own beliefs and perceptions towards labour pain (if you have any). You may wish to download this section to write you thoughts underneath each question, or you may wish to use another piece of paper if there is not enough room on the page.