Not
all moms feel contractions in their tummies.
Not exact matches
Some practitioners
feel that this gentle release of oxytocin from the body can ease into
contractions for many
moms.
In an interview with Romper, Weiss says a
mom can «place her hands on her abdomen and
feel her
contractions with her hands, be directed to push by personnel watching the fetal monitor, or have an epidural that allows her to have a sensation to push without pain.»
Some
moms will want an epidural as soon as they
feel the first
contraction while other
moms will choose non medicinal pain relief.
While in many cases, this is very true, other times,
contractions actually
feel like a completely different experience than what is the
mom - to - be expected.
Whether
moms know ahead of time that their baby has passed, or if the pain comes on suddenly,
feeling the pangs of
contractions and labor can help
moms deal with their baby's passing.
A specific camp of
moms insist that there's no pain involved with labor and delivery, and that
contractions are simply
felt as «pressure» or «waves.»
On the flip side, a
mom can have one
contraction and suddenly
feel the baby crowning!
Another type of medication is epidural anesthesia which allows
mom to
feel only mild to moderate
contraction intensity and pressure during labor and childbirth.
Some first time
moms may not know what is going on when they
feel this sensation and may even think they are some form of a
contraction.
Mom found she needed to pump more medication into her IV because she was
feeling the
contractions more.
If the needle and catheter are too high, the anesthetic won't affect the area where
mom is
feeling the
contractions.
Even though pushing may take from forty - five minutes to an hour or more, waiting until
mom is actively working to push the little one out, she will still
feel much of the pain of her
contractions.
Many
moms told us that their
contractions felt like an extreme version of menstrual cramps, while others compared them to cramps from gas, the stomach flu, or a charley horse.