Sentences with phrase «contractions begin»

During the first stage of labor the cervix begins to dilate and uterine contractions begin.

Mild contractions begin and continue throughout the day.

Just let your birth team know when contractions begin or your water breaks.

The command center of any muscle is a nerve which means that contractions begin when a neural message is sent to the muscle.

Occasionally, contractions begin without rupturing the amniotic sac, which may break several hours down the road.

I advise women to go to sleep when contractions begin, but I know that most first - time mothers will ignore the advice.

This stage consists of three phases: the early phase where the contractions begin and the cervix starts to open, the active phase where the cervix dilates from 3 to 8 cm (1 to 3 inches) and the contractions are strong and frequent, and the transition phase where the contractions are even more intense and frequent and the cervix dilates to 10 cm.

Contractions begin to be about 60 seconds long and about 5 minutes apart.

At the end of this period, contractions begin and the Mom is often startled into wakefulness.

Contractions begin after lunch, and within an hour they are 6 minutes apart and strong enough to make you stop moving during the peak.

Pre-labor, Simkin suggests creating a checklist of easily completed tasks to divert your attention once contractions begin.

Some doctors advise against eating once contractions begin, but many believe that eating is perfectly fine during labor, especially during the early stages, so long as what you are consuming is light snacks and fluids and not a 5 - course meal.

Contractions begin and the cervix gradually opens.

In this model, the local midwife does all the antenatal care for the pregnant woman; then, when contractions begin, the patient summons the midwife to her home.

If your water breaks before your contractions begin, you will be given a few options based on your other symptoms and your medical history.

Naturally, your uterus can't stay this size, so right after you deliver, contractions begin to make your uterus shrink and tighten back to its normal size.

But whatever you blame, one fact remains: barring a congressional deal between now and year - end, the United States will undergo a massive, deliberate fiscal contraction beginning Jan. 1, 2013.

Choosing to ignore reason, I watched a film with my partner and went to bed late, so I'd only had an hour of sleep when the contractions began at 1 a.m.

As the next contraction began to rise I said, «are we gonna push out the shoulders this time?»

I am prone to very frequent Braxton Hicks contractions beginning at about 20 weeks.

She got there just as my contractions began to space out... what the heck?

I haven't done it on purpose with my first one, but my contractions began right after having sex and the baby was born 8 - 10 hours later.

Each dose takes around 15 - 20 seconds to work, so it's best to inhale just as a contraction begins.

Then she left, encouraging me to rest up for the work I would be going through soon, and encouraging me to call when contractions began to hit hard.

(For example, if one contraction begins at 7:32 and the next one begins at 7:45, they are thirteen minutes apart.)

Always note the time each contraction begins (Specify A.M. or P.M.).

During the movie, the real contractions began.

That afternoon I was cooking in the kitchen when the contractions began.

Typically, these calcium ions are then pumped back into storage, allowing the muscle to relax before it receives any further nerve impulses, but fish swimbladder muscles contract too quickly for this pumping phase to be completed before the next contraction begins.

My OB gave me the lowest dose of Pitocin he could and took me off of it as soon as contractions began.

On average, the market peaks about six months prior to the start of a contraction and begins to decline more aggressively as the contraction begins.

Genevieve was more than 150 kilometres away from her doctor in Brandon when her contractions began.

Not exact matches

«Her contractions were about 10 minutes apart, so the paediatrician and I began to monitor her vital signs and keep her comfortable,» explains Dr. Hemal.

In 2008, once the contraction gathered steam, and the Fed had begun lowering interest rates, treasuries rates collapsed across the board in a global flight to safety.

well one hypothesis is that there is a massive black hole in the center of the universe that all the universe revolves around... once it sucks the whole or most of the universe into it... it can no longer hold it all together and it explodes creating a big explosion which dwarfs supernovas scattering elements and matter everywhere... and this expansion and contraction of the universe goes on for infinity with no beginning and perhaps no end.

Basic science posits that all physical matter is finite, the slightest motion in the universe (e.g. expansion, contraction, etc.) is change, and change means that the universe had a «beginning» since it is expanding, hence is temporal, hence is finite.

2) The nebula began a contraction that may have been triggered by the shock wave of a nearby supernova.

He seemed to me to be exactly like a man who should begin by saying that I, Socrates, do all I do by mind, but who, when he went on to assign a cause for each of my actions, should say, first that I am sitting here now because my body is composed of bones and muscles, and that the bones are hard and divided by joints, while the muscles can be tightened and relaxed and, together with the flesh and the skin which contains it, cover the bones; and that therefore when the bones are raised in their sockets by the contraction or relaxation of the muscles, I am now able to bend my limbs; — and that that is the cause of my sitting here un prison] all huddled up.

My labor began around 1:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 23, 2006, (41 weeks to the day) when I woke up to a real contraction, not the typical toning contractions I'd been having for the past several months.

This is the phase when labor begins to get very tiring as mothers don't get much rest between contractions and they become increasingly painful.

Your child will begin to understand and use correct tenses, along with the contractions «won't» and «can't.»

Pitocin was started and I quickly began having regular contractions.

Cheryl is receiving Pitocin today since she's only 2 centimeters dilated, her water hasn't broken, and her contractions haven't begun.

Since the contractions can cause intense cramps while breastfeeding, it is easy to begin to associate your nursing sessions with more pain.

Just like my previous acupuncture sessions, the baby responded to the placement of the needles and when the electrical stimulation began, I could feel contractions.

In the first days of nursing, the mother often feels brief uterine contractions when the baby begins sucking.

How to time the contractions Use a timer — for most people this will be the one on their phone, but anything that will count seconds is fine — to time your partner's contractions in seconds from the beginning of one contraction to the beginning of the next.

When your newborn begins to suck at your breast, or even just to mouth your nipple, the hormone oxytocin is released in your body, hastening the contraction of your uterus and inducing the let - down or milk - ejection reflex, which begins your milk flow.

So I began having contractions around 5 pm on February 2nd and so I headed to the hospital because, that's what you do, right?

I began having mild contractions at about midnight.