More signs that labour's starting Translations and alternative formats of this information are available from Public Health Scotland. Source: Public Health Scotland - Opens in new browser window. How can we improve this page? Email Address e. Message Maximum of characters. Send feedback. Community content from Health Unlocked - This will open in a new window. I had intense back labor, but if I vocalized throughout the contraction it was bearable. My labor started with what I could only describe as a "funny feeling" in my belly I didn't feel cramp-like sensations or hardening until later on.
As I progressed, I definitely felt the tightening, hardening feeling with intense cramps but all in my abdomen area With this one, I have been having BH contractions for quite some time. They began early on for me and the sensation felt like the baby was doing a twirling or twisting motion. Eventually, I realized that they were BH contractions and felt the classic hardening, tightening in my abdomen. It was that menstrual cramp feeling in the beginning, though, that distinguished them from the Braxton Hicks cramps I'd had through the pregnancy and let me know it was "real" labor.
Once I was about halfway dilated it felt like one big constant contraction, with no rest in between, even though the monitors showed a brief break between them. The contractions felt different with my second birth, though, and I wasn't sure I was really in labor. They didn't feel the same way they did the first time around, and my BH contractions had been so intense and uncomfortable painful, not just the tightening feeling the last month or two of my pregnancy, that I constantly felt like I was in early labor.
My baby was "sunny side up" that time too, so more of the pain was in my back. My mother and mother-in-law had told me they never knew when they were having contractions, just felt the pressure of pushing at the end. That astonished me. My mom literally never knew when she was having contractions, just knew that she 'felt funny. I had a c-section after pushing non medicated for 5 hours with my fat, 9lb 37 week direct OP baby occiput posterior -- baby who is facing up instead of back , and a non-medicated VBAC with my second, so feel like I really got a sense of what things felt like.
They started as menstrual cramps, and an ache in my lower back, moving around and increasing in intensity deep in my pelvis. I did not have back labor with either, even the OP babe. I have to say that I did not think they were that bad, I mean, intense, yes, requiring deep focus and coping, yes, but the worst pain I ever felt? It was very freeing to surrender to the contractions, doing whatever felt good, no matter how crazy or silly it seemed.
Labors last about 36 hours each, in both labors, I immersed myself in the tub, completely, except for my nose, when I had the intense contractions, removing all the sensory stimulation, ears underwater, eyes closed, remaining really loose.
Alternately, I did a lot of deep vocalization. As I said, hard, yes, intense, yes, all encompassing, yes, body wracking, yes, but incredibly painful -- no. If I could, I would labor and birth once a year!
No pregnancy, no baby to keep, just a big ole labor and birth! It was the hardest, most intense, but doable work I have ever done! Tags Birth Birth stories Coping with pain Contraction. Lamaze Home Contact Us Login. Return to Giving Birth with Confidence. Theme picker. Contact author Message sent. A contraction is when the muscles of your uterus tighten up like a fist and then relax.
Contractions help push your baby out. They get stronger and closer together over time. You feel pain in your belly and lower back. This pain doesn't go away when you move or change positions.
You have a bloody brownish or reddish mucus discharge. This is called bloody show. Your water breaks. Your baby has been growing in amniotic fluid the bag of waters in your uterus. When the bag of waters breaks, you may feel a big rush of water. Or you may feel just a trickle. What are signs that you may be close to starting labor? You may be close to starting labor if: Your baby drops or moves lower into your pelvis.
This is called lightening. It means that your baby is getting ready to move into position for birth. It can happen a few weeks or even just a few hours before your labor begins.
This is called show or bloody show. It can happen a few days before labor starts or at the beginning of labor. At a prenatal checkup, your health care provider tells you that your cervix has begun to efface thin and dilate open. Before labor, your cervix is about 3. Once labor starts, contractions help open your cervix. You have the nesting instinct. This is when you want to get things organized in your home to get ready for your baby. You need your energy for labor and birth.
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