and I swear
I just felt a contraction.
Not exact matches
Between the intense
contraction that came every 5th or 6th time, the fetal shaking I had experiences, and my lack of sleep, I woke up my husband and asked him to pray with me because I was
just not
feeling very confident.
Now, I do not have to do any research, but
just use common sense, to know that a man doesn't know ANYTHING about what it means to have a baby, what
contractions feel like... They are completely unsuitable to deliver babies... Oh, and none of my kids are vaccinated, they never had antibiotics and never any other meds.
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.
For my first labour, after a long walk and a warm bath, I
just lay on my bed and breathed deeply through all the
contractions until I
felt ready to push.
Then,
just when you
feel you know all there is to know about managing labor pain (or worse, when the
contractions kick in), you learn about back labor.
During a
contraction your abdomen will
feel hard all over, not
just in one area.
Just imagine for a moment that you could deal with each
contraction in such a way as to
feel increasing excitement.
Very early on January 1, I
felt that all too familiar pressure of
contractions just beginning.
I
just agreed between two
contractions and
felt so... broken afterwards.
I
just zoned out and hummed and moaned with the
contractions, finally really
feeling like I could let my body do what it needed to do because my midwife was there.
Marit: Each
contraction I
just told myself, «Okay, I'm not going to
feel that ever again.
Its comforting to know im not the only one, I was set to be induced with my fifth child on jan 1, went to hospital at 5 am, put on pittosin at 6, dialed slowly, and had painful
contractions, Dr broke my water at 11,
contractions even more painful, got the epidural at 12, labor did not progress, was dialated 3 cm all day, @ 8 pm,, Dr took me off pittosin for an hour to see if I would progress if we started over again, at 9 they hooked me up again, all night and
just progressed to a 4, that next morning, still nothing, finally Dr said we need to do a c section, since my water was broken earlier the previous day, he was worried about infection, finally went to operating rm, it was so cold, I was shaking and crying, I was so scared, btw my previous 4 children were vaginal births, I
felt so guilty, thinking it was my fault my labor did nt progress.Finally I had her, when the Dr held her up for me to see, I started bawling, she was perfect, it was very emotional, she weighed 6 lb 4oz and 18in, Im very proud of her, and myself
They wanted me to sit down and be hooked up to the monitor
just to see the strength of my
contractions and I was ready to sit down by this point, as the
contractions were strong enough that I
felt them in the top of my legs and they made me somewhat weak.
What these electrodes are doing is they're stimulating the muscles that causing to contract and it'll
feel kind of like pain but when you look at it, it's not pain, it's
just incredibly strong
contraction of the muscle.
The first time you
feel a
contraction, that first push, the first time you hear your baby's cry, the first time you lay eyes on them, the first time you hold them in your arms...
Just awesome.
If you palpate your belly
just inside the left and right hip bones, this deep
contraction should
feel like a light, deep tension under your fingertips, not a
contraction that pushes your fingers out.
But I could
feel contractions with both epidurals (they
just weren't painful), so I knew when to push.