Skirmishes-precursors: preparation for childbirth

This phenomenon has many different names: false or training fights, harbingers, Braxton-Hicks fights, but the essence is one - they resemble real ones, although they are not. Such "training" can be observed starting from the 20th week of pregnancy, but usually they appear much later. An inexperienced woman can even panic and decide what is already giving birth, but in fact, similar spasms train the uterus, improve her blood circulation and improve her tone.

The real bouts are a sign that a momentous event is coming - the birth of a baby. And if this is true, then the forthcoming birth can be distinguished from "training" and by other signs.

So what are false fights and how to distinguish them from the real ones? In fact, it can be quite difficult. However, as a rule, a woman has enough time to understand whether she gives birth or not, so it's worth to calm down, lie down or go to the shower, take some authorized spasmolytic and wait a bit. As a rule, scramble-precursors take place within an hour or two. If the pain increases, and the period between spasms decreases, it is likely that the birth process still began. For those who are not too good at this, there are even special "grasping" handshaking services, which will help to easily understand whether it is already worth calling an ambulance. True, they also sometimes make mistakes, so in case of doubt, especially at not too late dates, you need to go to the hospital and stop the labor activity.

In addition, women before birth often observe some more signs of an early termination of pregnancy: the exit of the plug, the so-called "cleansing" of the body, the lowering of the abdomen, a slight decrease in body weight, a change The nature of the motor activity of the fetus and, of course, the most notable event, signaling that it's time to go to the maternity hospital - the passage of amniotic fluid.

In films, it is often shown that childbirth begins precisely when the waters leave. In the next frame, the woman is already giving birth, so it seems that one to the other event takes an hour. In fact, quite often the water is poured already during the birth itself, and from the onset of labor to the so-called stage of "expulsion" of the fetus from the uterus can take a day. Therefore, the fear of not being in time in the maternity hospital and giving birth somewhere along the road is almost unreasonable, and go to Every case in the hospital, having felt contractions-harbingers, perhaps, is not worth it.

Thus, it is quite easy to distinguish true fights from false ones: you just need to analyze their character, if there is no increase in the frequency and strength of spasms, then, most likely, there is nothing to worry about.

Sometimes it happens that fights-precursors turn into real ones. In addition, spasms in the intestine and in general its activity, for example, as a result of poisoning, can provoke the onset of labor. That is why both early and later terms should be extremely careful about their lifestyle in general and nutrition in particular.

And if there are still doubts and after a period of rest the bouts do not pass, you can be safe and go to the hospital. In the end, the cases are different, and I do not want to give birth in the ambulance .