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Am I in Labor? Know When It’s Time to Call the Doctor

Written by Mary Jo DiLonardo

In this Article

  • Are You Having Contractions?
  • Does Your Back Hurt?
  • Did Your Water Break?
  • Did You Have Any Jelly-Like Discharge?
  • Are You ‘Dilated’ and ‘Effaced’?

In movies and TV, the start of labor can be dramatic. Water breaks with a big gush, and a baby is on the way. But in real life, you might not always have such obvious signs that you're about to be a new mom.

Women feel labor coming in different ways. For some, it's slow with lots of signals. For others, it comes in a rush with very little warning. Your doctor or midwife will talk to you about what to expect.

Here are some things to look for.

Are You Having Contractions?

Your uterus tightens and relaxes as it gets ready to push out your baby. That causes pain that at first feels like cramps during your period. The pain gets stronger as delivery gets closer. If your contractions get stronger, more regular, and come closer together, you are most likely in labor.

If your contractions aren't regular and go away when you change positions, you might be having Braxton Hicks contractions. These aren't labor pains. It's kind of like your body practicing for the real thing.

True contractions keep coming no matter what you do and steadily get stronger and closer together. They last about 30 to 70 seconds.

Does Your Back Hurt?

It's common to have back pain during pregnancy. It could be due to the extra strain on your back and belly muscles or just changes in posture. Heat or cold packs or massage often help.

During labor, you may have lower back pain and cramps that don't get better or go away. It can also be part of your contractions. The pain usually starts in your back and then moves around to the front of your body.

Did Your Water Break?

Your baby is growing in a bag of protective fluid called the amniotic sac. This bag breaks when it's time for your baby to be born. This can be a gush of fluid down your legs or just a slow, little trickle.

If you notice that your water broke, head to the hospital or birthing center. There's a good chance you will go into labor not long after it happens.

But you can still be in labor even if your water hasn't broken. Sometimes your doctor will have to break it for you using a little plastic hook. This helps speed up or induce your labor.

Did You Have Any Jelly-Like Discharge?

When you're pregnant, a plug of mucus blocks your cervix. As your cervix gets softer and bigger to prepare for labor, this plug loosens and drops out. It's usually a small amount of pinkish or brown-colored jelly-like discharge. It may come away in one piece or several little blobs. This can also happen long before active labor starts. By itself, it isn't a reason to call.

Are You ‘Dilated’ and ‘Effaced’?

To stretch enough to make room for your baby, your cervix has to thin out and get bigger (open up). When you hear your doctor talk about how far your cervix is "effaced" (thinned) and "dilated" (opened), that's what they mean. Your cervix has to be dilated at least 10 centimeters before you can start pushing to deliver your baby.

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Am I in Labor? Know When It’s Time to Call the Doctor

Written by Mary Jo DiLonardo

In this Article

  • Are You Having Contractions?
  • Does Your Back Hurt?
  • Did Your Water Break?
  • Did You Have Any Jelly-Like Discharge?
  • Are You ‘Dilated’ and ‘Effaced’?

In movies and TV, the start of labor can be dramatic. Water breaks with a big gush, and a baby is on the way. But in real life, you might not always have such obvious signs that you're about to be a new mom.

Women feel labor coming in different ways. For some, it's slow with lots of signals. For others, it comes in a rush with very little warning. Your doctor or midwife will talk to you about what to expect.

Here are some things to look for.

Are You Having Contractions?

Your uterus tightens and relaxes as it gets ready to push out your baby. That causes pain that at first feels like cramps during your period. The pain gets stronger as delivery gets closer. If your contractions get stronger, more regular, and come closer together, you are most likely in labor.

If your contractions aren't regular and go away when you change positions, you might be having Braxton Hicks contractions. These aren't labor pains. It's kind of like your body practicing for the real thing.

True contractions keep coming no matter what you do and steadily get stronger and closer together. They last about 30 to 70 seconds.

Does Your Back Hurt?

It's common to have back pain during pregnancy. It could be due to the extra strain on your back and belly muscles or just changes in posture. Heat or cold packs or massage often help.

During labor, you may have lower back pain and cramps that don't get better or go away. It can also be part of your contractions. The pain usually starts in your back and then moves around to the front of your body.

Did Your Water Break?

Your baby is growing in a bag of protective fluid called the amniotic sac. This bag breaks when it's time for your baby to be born. This can be a gush of fluid down your legs or just a slow, little trickle.

If you notice that your water broke, head to the hospital or birthing center. There's a good chance you will go into labor not long after it happens.

But you can still be in labor even if your water hasn't broken. Sometimes your doctor will have to break it for you using a little plastic hook. This helps speed up or induce your labor.

Did You Have Any Jelly-Like Discharge?

When you're pregnant, a plug of mucus blocks your cervix. As your cervix gets softer and bigger to prepare for labor, this plug loosens and drops out. It's usually a small amount of pinkish or brown-colored jelly-like discharge. It may come away in one piece or several little blobs. This can also happen long before active labor starts. By itself, it isn't a reason to call.

Are You ‘Dilated’ and ‘Effaced’?

To stretch enough to make room for your baby, your cervix has to thin out and get bigger (open up). When you hear your doctor talk about how far your cervix is "effaced" (thinned) and "dilated" (opened), that's what they mean. Your cervix has to be dilated at least 10 centimeters before you can start pushing to deliver your baby.

Health & Pregnancy Guide

  1. Getting Pregnant
  2. First Trimester
  3. Second Trimester
  4. Third Trimester
  5. Labor and Delivery
  6. Pregnancy Complications
  7. All Guide Topics
90,000 which pain is stronger in labor or leg cramps?

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True, for me, and toothache (not pulpitis, but just when it hurts so much that you can’t sleep and you eat ibuprofen 4 tablets each), and sciatica (such when you can’t straighten up, but you crawl with the letter “G”) , and painful periods (up to wallowing on the floor in public toilets) are toys compared to childbirth. Just unlucky.

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Naughty Pig

well... with a cramp, whatever one may say, it's quite possible to hold back the cry. :46

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Mischievous Pig

well... with a cramp, whatever one may say, it's quite possible to hold back the cry.

The pain during childbirth is different for everyone, for example, I yelled and growled, and next to me a woman gave birth very calmly, talking quietly with doctors

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I didn’t scream during the fights, but not to moan - no. Well, in the attempts already some kind of animal scream-roar escaped.

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Once I yelled, the doctor came and said: once again you will open your fuck____lo you will get . ... well, blah blah blah in all letters alphabet ....... I gave birth somewhere 36 hours. It was very hard....... 9Love people, then, “oh, I would give birth and give birth,” then, “I give birth, we went to the forest,” then the whole maternity hospital is on meropenem, but no one put birth pain on a par with trigeminal neuralgia, lumbago, dental denervation. maybe they had the wrong dentists.

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Once I yelled, the doctor came and said: once again you will open your fuck____lo you will get .... well, blah blah blah in all letters alphabet ....... I gave birth somewhere 36 hours. It was very hard.......

just imagine! 36 hours to give birth, it's *** still explode to shreds ....

God .... how did you not give him a face ????

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Guest

I yelled once, the doctor came and said: once again you will open your fuck ____lo you will get . ... well, blah blah blah in all letters of the alphabet ....... I gave birth for about 36 hours. It was very hard .......

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I will say for sure: renal colic is the most painful of all of the above.

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Guest

All births are different. I did not have any pain, I do not know what contractions and attempts are. I walked for 2 weeks, so I myself came to the maternity hospital in the evening and said that I was having contractions. I was given an enema and sent to the delivery room. Then the doctor realized that I had no contractions and was sent to a free ward to sleep in order to be sent to the floor where they lie during preservation in the morning. At 8 in the morning there was a shift change, the doctors looked at me, and I practically gave birth in a dream. I still don’t know where the amniotic fluid went, the bed was dry. Childbirth passed me by, that she gave birth, that she did not give birth, she did not feel anything.

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Guest

All births are different. I did not have any pain, I do not know what contractions and attempts are. I walked for 2 weeks, so I myself came to the maternity hospital in the evening and said that I was having contractions. I was given an enema and sent to the delivery room. Then the doctor realized that I had no contractions and was sent to a free ward to sleep in order to be sent to the floor where they lie during preservation in the morning. At 8 in the morning there was a shift change, the doctors looked at me, and I practically gave birth in a dream. I still don’t know where the amniotic fluid went, the bed was dry. Childbirth passed me by, that she gave birth, that she did not give birth, she did not feel anything.

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666666666666 drink magnesium when it is not enough, then cramps and pains

Pain during childbirth is different for everyone, for example, I yelled and growled, and next to me a woman gave birth very calmly, talking quietly with doctors

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And di otki are clean, stupid,

I really want to inject you with a drip into your brain: this is incomparable,

g lu p yndri

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tony

Can several people give birth in one room? August 27, 2013 I did not have any pain, I do not know what contractions and attempts are. I walked for 2 weeks, so I myself came to the maternity hospital in the evening and said that I was having contractions. I was given an enema and sent to the delivery room. Then the doctor realized that I had no contractions and was sent to a free ward to sleep in order to be sent to the floor where they lie during preservation in the morning. At 8 in the morning there was a shift change, the doctors looked at me, and I practically gave birth in a dream. I still don’t know where the amniotic fluid went, the bed was dry. Childbirth passed me by, that she gave birth, that she did not give birth, she did not feel anything.

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Henrietta_neither that is possible_nor that

can several people give birth in one room? If free, then yes. Plus, at prenatal, for example, in pathology, even for a fee, you still lie with contractions along with everyone.

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They found a wheelchair, took it to the maternity hospital, it also resisted, saying that I would come myself.

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and how is it to give birth for several hours? lie down without getting up? eat, do not want to go to the toilet, sleep? sorry for the stupid question)

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but maybe not everyone will understand, I had one problem tooth. . I had surgery on it and what they just didn’t do.. before him, I didn’t even imagine that a toothache could be SUCH

I have a philosophical attitude to pain after childbirth, I am not afraid to go to the dentist at all (and before that I was shaking with fear).

I also had convulsions before - this is generally garbage.

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I once yelled, the doctor came and said: once again you will open your fucking____lo, you will get . .. blah blah by all letters of the alphabet ....... I gave birth for about 36 hours. It was very hard.......

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How contractions start and what they look like | Mamovediya

How contractions start and what they look like | Mamovedia - about the health and development of the child

A happy moment in the life of every woman is the birth and the first long-awaited meeting with her little angel, whom she bore under her heart for "long" and difficult nine months. And to feel this unforgettable moment, women have to go through a serious test of physical and emotional endurance, which is called childbirth. Of course, everything is quite individual, and for some, childbirth takes place easily and naturally with only minor discomfort, but for most women this process is quite stressful and painful.

As you know, childbirth takes place in three stages , each of which has its own characteristics and requires a positive attitude and significant physical effort. The first period of labor is contractions , its duration is about 10-12 hours for primiparous women and 6-8 hours for multiparous women. The second period is the very birth of a child, its duration is about 1-2 hours, and for multiparous from 10 minutes to 1 hour, and the third period is the separation and birth of the placenta and membranes, which takes about 30 minutes.

So, how to understand that the first stage of labor has begun - contractions?

First, let's find out what contractions are? Contractions - are regular uterine contractions that result in full dilatation of her cervix. At the physiological level, this happens like this: in order to stretch the strong muscle of the cervix, the ribbon of muscle fibers that are around the uterus is pulled up to its upper part. During the peak of contractions, the fibers contract and then relax, and each time there is a gradual increase in cervical dilatation.

The first contractions usually go unnoticed because they are almost painless. But with the gradual development of labor activity, contractions intensify and become more noticeable.

Early contractions are felt as periodic pains in the lower abdomen, similar to intense pain during menstruation or cramps, and are accompanied by pain in the lower back and back. At this stage, it is worth taking a watch with a stopwatch and starting to note the beginning of contractions and their frequency, in order to make sure that they are regular. Now there are special applications for smartphones that can be downloaded and thus conveniently record data. At the same time, you can safely continue your daily activities, and to increase your comfort during this period, you can take a shower, ask for a light massage, listen to pleasant music, eat healthy, easily digestible food and drink fluids.

Active contractions: making sure that the contractions are regular, last 30-40 seconds with an interval of 15-20 minutes, and gradually their frequency and intensity increase, we can safely say that the onset of labor has come, so it's time to go to the hospital and be under the supervision of doctors. During this time of active contractions, the cervix should expand to 10 centimeters. A woman during this period may feel thirsty, nausea, leg cramps, water may break. To facilitate well-being, you can take a warm shower, do some relaxing exercises with a fitball, ask for a light massage in the interval between contractions, breathe actively and correctly, following the advice of an obstetrician. During intense and too painful contractions, it is also possible to use anesthesia as an epidural anesthesia, but only at the request of the woman and the recommendations of the doctor. Intense contractions, from which breath is taken away and very pronounced pain is felt, are observed more often at the end of the first stage of labor. They are about 9 in length.0-120 seconds, and the interval between them is reduced to 2-3 minutes. Gradually, this interval is also reduced and the woman no longer has enough time for a short rest between contractions in order to prepare for the next ones. In the delivery room, the doctor constantly checks the quality of contractions using a special device - a CTG monitor, in addition to the effectiveness of uterine contractions, this device allows you to evaluate the heart rate of the fetus and monitor its condition.

At the end of the first stage of labor, the nature of the contractions changes, since attempts are added to the contractions of the uterus. The latter arise due to contractions of the abdominal muscles, diaphragm and pelvic floor, pressure of the baby's head on the nerve endings of the birth canal, as a result, the woman experiences a strong urge to defecate and a desire to push. During this period, it is extremely important to listen carefully and follow all the recommendations of the obstetrician and breathe correctly.

Next, the second stage of childbirth begins, as a result of which the woman receives the best and most anticipated gift “for the suffering experienced” - the birth of her miracle, her baby. After all, what could be better than these precious and special moments of joy with a newborn baby and loved ones?!

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