back labor

nybride10

anybody experience this?? what does it feel like ?

megank27

Mine felt like intense pressure to the left of my spine in my mid-lower back. It started as pressure in my tailbone like I needed to poop. The pressure came in waves. I felt nothing in the front.

hisaak

With DS I had contractions that wrapped around the back - I thought that was back labour.

Then with DD she was sunnyside up ... and I had real back labour.  It felt like the worst cramp ever combined with knives in my spine.  Incredibly uncool.  A whole new ballgame for me in labour.

DawnAM

I felt it in the same place that I had been having regular pregnancy back pain, but waaaaay more intense.  And the epidural didn't take it away.  So that sucked, to put it mildly!

Leahanna21

Horrible! I felt like such a baby it hurt so bad and I was like omg, Im not even at the hospital yet! The more I progressed I felt it up front and not in the back anymore. 

jupiterthecat

Back pain was by far the worst part of my labor and delivery. I had pain both in the back and in the front, so it wasn't exclusively back labor. The back pain started early the day I went into labor (maybe it was even the night before, in retrospect) and got worse, and when my contractions started soon after I got up it would rise in conjunction with them. Back pain was usually my first signal that a contraction was starting, and then it would radiate forward to my uterus, and it would continue a little after the contraction ended. She was likely sunny-side up (they think she may have flipped just before she finally came out so they can't be sure) which made the pushing part way worse-- the pain was more than the epi could handle. During labor, sitting on an exercise ball and having my husband use a rolling pin on my lower back was sort of helpful.

In contrast, when my sister had my nephew, she had back labor with pain that didn't really follow a contraction pattern-- it just grew progressively worse throughout the day until it was excruciating.