Stamping my feet, wiggling my fingers, or during the real heavy contractions I found banging on a bucket helped distract my thoughts from the pain. Whilst swinging my hips down low, if that makes sense? I found the noise of the bucket banging (and DH reckoned he could tell when the ctx peaked as the bucket copped a real workout) really helped, this changed to the door handle of the car during the drive to hospital. I didn't agree with alot of the stuff in Birth Skills, but some of the distraction techniques proved to work really well for me.
With the labour of my 3rd little one my contractions were quite manageable for quite some time (from about 3am-4pm) they were just pains that i'd stop and sway through (or slept through) whilst carrying on a normal day at home. It did get intense really quickly at about 6pm when i was still at home so all i could do was focus, breath and wait for them to pass. In between i was back to dealing with a 3 year old and 21 month old. We quickly made our way to the hospital where i think i maybe had less than 10 contractions/breaths of gas until she arrived.
My initial thoughts on how i got through the day/labour so well and possibly you could too was just keeping busy. Luckily for me i was able to labour at home and DD was born 50 min after arriving at the hospital. Maybe if your little one/labour allows it you could try something similar.
My boys were totally different and whilst i love all my labours my 3rd was by far the most enjoyable (strange concept i know).
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