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Fight, Flight or Fawn: Why we end up doing things we don't want to
You might have heard of the term ‘fight or flight’. It describes an automatic response in our bodies that happens any time we feel afraid, disturbed, observed or uneasy in some way. In hypnobirthing we talk about it a lot to explain how our labour hormones behave, but it doesn’t go a long way to describe how we behave in birth in 2023. But the ‘fawn' response does!