TENS Labour Machine Rental

Now available to rent - the award-winning Elle TENS2 maternity machine with built-in contraction timer.

The Elle TENS2 is an award-winning TENS maternity machine featuring a contraction timer, recording your last 5 contractions and in-between contractions. With a new, updated user interface and backlight, the Elle TENS2 is ready for all of your labour and post-natal needs. 

Features and Benefits

  • Contraction Timer

  • Pre-set Modes For Easy Use

  • Boost Button For Contractions

  • Recommended By Midwives

  • Optimax For Extra Power

  • Backlit Digital Display

  • Free delivery and collection within Summit County

TENS is one option for pain relief in labour. With TENS, a machine sends low-voltage electrical current to your body through electrodes stuck to the skin of your back. TENS doesn’t involve needles or drugs.

What is TENS?

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, or TENS, is a form of pain relief without medicine. It can be used in labour to help with the pain.

Two electrodes are stuck to your skin and connected to a battery-powered machine.

The machine delivers small pulses of electrical current to the body. You can adjust the amount of electricity delivered to your body. The pulses feel like tingling sensations on your skin.

How it works

It blocks pain signals by stimulating different nerves in your spinal cord, causing the release of endorphins, which are the body's natural pain relievers.

Advantages and disadvantages for TENS in labour

The advantages of TENS are that:

  • it doesn't require medicines or injections

  • it gives you some control over pain relief

  • you are able to move about

  • you can use other methods if TENS does not give you enough pain relief

  • there is no harm to you or your baby

  • it can be used at home during early labour

The disadvantages are that:

  • TENS machines can't be used in the bath or shower

Risks and side effects

TENS is thought to be very safe. But it shouldn't be used:

  • on an open wound or if your skin is irritated

  • while driving

  • by women who are pregnant but not in labour

  • before 37 weeks’ gestation

  • by people who have a pacemaker or a cochlear implant

  • by some people with epilepsy

Package Price $65 ($55 for birth clients)

This includes:

  • Delivery of machine within Summit County at week 38,

  • Four weeks hire from week 38-42 of your pregnancy,

  • 2 AA batteries plus 2 spare,

  • A personal packet of extra large maternity electrode pads,

  • Full instructions for use and in person demonstration,

  • Collection of machine within Summit County at week 42.