" Start coaching before it begins, about the time you think another one is due, so she isn’t caught unaware. Coaching before it begins sounds like this: “The next time you barely begin to feel that bag of muscles starting to flex, you want to greet it with a limp, yielding body, releasing everywhere all at once, welcome it; let it come on strong as you let go. At the barest hint of another flex beginning, embrace it by melting down into the bed. "

― Susan McCutcheon , Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way