METHOD FOR COMPLEX PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PREPARATION OF PREGNANT WOMEN FOR DELIVERY Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61B5/16 A61M21/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: what is involved is psychodiagnostics that provides a basis for a short-term positive and rational psychotherapy. Then, three types of breathing are trained: diaphragm breathing technique; pre-labour breathing technique that provides a deep chestful breath-in alternated with a deep breath-out every time labour arrives, in a relation of breath-in : breath-out - pause 4:6, repeated for at least 5 times. The breathing technique for the period of intensive labours is trained to provide a deep mouth breath-out, a chestful breath-in, in the relation of breath-in : breath-out 4:4; and a shallow breathing is trained. After the breathing types are trained, a pregnant woman is subject to a positive non-conscious exposure for 30 minutes according to SOMVI technique for the purpose of the desensitisation of negative expectations of the forthcoming delivery and the correction of the psychosomatovegetative state; the preparation course is 8-10 sessions.

EFFECT: method enables provides the more effective psychotherapeutic preparation of the women at the late pregnancy by normalising the high anxiety level and reducing the subjective feeling of the labour pain, that in turn leads to reducing the drug-induced load accompanying the labour, and reduces a probability of obstetric and perinatal complications in birth and after-birth periods.