Skirmishes: sensations and causes

Contractions are painful contractions of the muscles of the uterus, without which normal births will be simply impossible.

Without pain, not do without

Almost all future mothers are always asked the same question: what will they experience when the fights begin? Feelings will not be the most pleasant - it's obvious, but which ones?

We will clarify the situation at once: in normal births it is impossible to avoid fights, because they have a very important purpose. These cuts are needed in order to open the cervix, which will become for the baby the likeness of the gate to this world. If this does not happen, you have to go through the cesarean section.

It is difficult to explain in words what the fights are like, the feelings from them are also difficult to convey. Women who passed through the birth, say that each time everything was different. Some people have pain in bouts in the lower back, many in the abdomen. It connects all moms at this moment one point: if prenatal labor starts, the sensations of any of them appear corresponding. That is, everyone immediately understands that the moment X came, although earlier it was afraid that it would not be able to recognize it.

Breathing and massage will help

Combines women in labor and the fact that after some time pains caused by contractions permeate almost the entire body, necessarily "running" along the legs. Most compare the sensations that occur with this, with menstrual pains, however, multiplied by dozens of times. It is believed that they can be reduced by applying massage and performing breathing exercises.

When the woman in labor feels only the beginning of the fights, the sensations are not so unbearable. Some women compare them to the usual tension of the abdominal muscles, in part reminiscent of Brexton-Hicks contractions. According to them, these sensations can not be called even painful, rather, they just cause some inconvenience to the future mother.

However, not all representatives of the fair sex agree that the first bouts, sensations from them do not cause any practical inconvenience. There are those who feel a strong pain from the very first minute. But even if you are lucky more than these women, know that sooner or later the period of almost painless fights is over.

How long are the bouts?

Gradually, the duration and intensity of the contractions of the uterus increases, and the time between them, when the pain subsides, inexorably decreases. At some point, already closer to the moment of appearance of the baby, there will be a feeling of severe pain almost without interruption.

Moreover, to the fights shortly before the birth "join" and attempts. Their appearance also does not diminish the pain - it is added to it as if the feeling of bursting at the bottom of the abdomen. From this moment it is necessary to collect will in a fist - in a couple of hours (and maybe much earlier) your baby will appear.

The period until fights last, is considered the first stage of labor activity. It lasts for every woman in different ways - from 6 hours to a day. As a rule, during the second birth this stage is reduced, because the body works according to the scheme, which is already well known to him. It is believed that often in this case, not so painful and the bouts themselves, the sensations of uterine contractions seem to be slightly blunted.