please explain

carawasa · October 2013

how your contractions felt? I have an outside baby, so when describing contractions to people the only thing I can come up with is that it felt like my butt was falling out...haha

tell me how you describe your contractions

SuperTreesa · October 2013

Early contractions always felt like normal to strong menstrual cramps. By the end, they felt like a combo of strong menstrual cramps and diarrhea cramps. But honestly, I have very little memory of the end contractions. Having gone medfree with my last birth, my memory was wiped clean almost instantly.

Izzies · October 2013

I had contractions and BH for months before the baby came. The contractions felt like my belly was squeezing really really right while cramping. The BH were of course a much lighter version of this with out the cramping.
However when I really went into labor I had no idea because it felt nothing like my precious contractions. It was ALL in my back. It felt like my spine was a burning steel pipe that someone was trying to squeeze, twist, and rip in two. They were not really time able because the pain never really stopped or lessened enough for me to realize it until much much later. My husband forced me to go to the hospital. I arrived at the hospital at 4cm dialated and was asking for drugs the minute they told me I was dialated and in labor. Going natural did not last past triage for me.

steph191 · October 2013

I had the same issue before my LO was born. For me they felt like menstrual cramps.

pmarie33 · October 2013

Intense period cramps that wrapped around my back.

Pickle123 · October 2013

I was med free last delivery....stabbing pain is what it felt like for me. And no I didn't forget.

kcs7 · October 2013

My contractions were barely existent after water broke. Like light period cramps. Thrn after they did pitocin, the contractions were all in front and very low. Felt like uterus was on fire and being twisted and ripped out. I never got an epi. It hurt.

but got thru it.

emmylou78 · October 2013

My BH just felt like a all
Over toghtening. No pain. Sometimes I had to put my hand there to be sure it was a contraction.
Real contractions were more down on my lower abdomen. It started out with light back pain then the lower abd pain. Then aching in my inner thighs. When I was started on pitocin, it was pressure and pain... The nurse wanted me to describe it but I couldn't. I just yelled that it hurt!

SuperTreesa · October 2013

baconface said:

SuperTreesa said:

Having gone medfree with my last birth, my memory was wiped clean almost instantly.

I like this. We've prepared for a natural birth, so it makes me happy/hopeful to hear stuff like this. I hope it was a good experience for you overall.

It was a great expierence. I don't remember the pain but I know I must have gotten off a lot easier than other women. As long as I was moving my pain was pretty low. I got to the hospital at 7cm and the baby was born 2 hours later. I remember in between pushes, joking with my MW and MH that I was still smiling. I would definitely hope anyone wishing for a medfree birth would have the same luck.

huntjul · October 2013

Early ones like menstrual cramps plus simultaneous back cramps. Later they were simultaneous tightening in my back and abdomen. By the time I hit triage at 7cm I was feeling a lot of tension without enough time to relax in between because contractions were coming on top of each other. That was when I called for the epidural, but my labor moved so quickly that it didn't get placed til 9.5cm. By that time, I also had rectal pressure. My LO was sunny side up, OP, so I probably had more back pain than others.

LeaLea123 · October 2013

I had the best epi ever with this birth, I felt no pain! Contractions during active labor felt like squeezing right under my ribs, pressure and cramps in my lower belly and back and a slight urge to poo!!!

BlessUrHeart29 · October 2013

Mine felt like someone was stabbing me in my lower back for an extended length of time. It was awful.

LeaLea123 · October 2013

Pickle123 said:
I was med free last delivery....stabbing pain is what it felt like for me. And no I didn't forget.

This with my first delivery! With a little bit of spine twisting feeling and extreme fire crotch.

calibr8te · October 2013

Early contractions on day one felt like strong menstrual cramps.. sometimes stopping me in my tracks to grab onto something and breathe through them. Sadly, I had almost 48 hrs of back labour and those felt like intense stabbing pain in my back and moving around to the front.

When it came time that I wanted to push, I felt like I really had to take the biggest poop in the world. In fact I kept telling the nurse that.. 'what if I really do just need to take a massive poop? just let me poop puhlease!' She wouldn't budge until my body was ready for the pushing stage, and FI kept reminding me that I hadn't eaten in two days so I had no poop in me.

KevsLove · October 2013

@calibr8te described mine to a T (except the back labor) and I had mine yesterday do it's still fresh in my head...

shelley1002 · October 2013

Mine were like really bad period pains on the lower/underside of my belly. Along with a hard squeezing feeling. And lots of pressure in my butthole.

My contractions this time were a lot worse than my contractions while on pitocin last time. But my labor was 6 hours and 15 minutes of pushing this time. Last time was 17 hours of labor (7 on pit), 1hour of pushing before getting a vacuum assist. Both started exactly the same - baby high, no BH or contractions, 1cm dilated for 2 weeks, water breaking without warning while laying in bed.

Weljadraak · October 2013

Before Pitocin (and after water breaking) they were intense menstrual cramps.

After getting Pitocin it was a very severe pain like my uterus was trying to rip, tear, scratch and claw itself from my body (@mmgkms describes it well, lol).

MrsStuessyWI · October 2013

At the end I kept telling DH it felt like one of those huge machines that picks up cars (I am having a hard time describing this) was squeezing me all around my entire body. So, basically like something huge was squishing me, all the way from my thighs to right below my boobs.

kdjudd · October 2013

With my first it felt like my back was breaking in half (Posterior Baby). With this one it felt like super sharp gas pains.

taylormarie923 · October 2013

DH asked me what they felt like when we were on our way tithe hospital. I told him like someone stabbed my ute with a giant sword and started thrashing it about. I also had a constant ache in my lower back.