Sentences with phrase «with painful contractions»

Going to the hospital may be tempting, especially if you've been dealing with painful contractions for days or weeks, but it's not a great idea (Source).

«They're usually used to help labor progress and to aid with painful contractions,» Garrett - Brown says.

Not exact matches

As the contractions continued to come very close together and seemed to become more painful with each one, and the back labor became nearly impossible to endure, we tried everything we could for natural pain management.

One other possible disadvantage is the degree of pain relief; for some, the idea of giving birth in the water means a tranquil, relaxing environment and a lack of pain, however the reality is that labour is a painful experience and although water may soothe pain, contractions will still be very painful and some women may be disappointed with the degree of pain relief offered by water.

With my second daughter, I was induced a week after my due date and I asked for an epidural as soon as the contractions became even a little bit painful (like I said, I don't like pain).

I did a lot of preparation ahead of time, and from previous dramatic injuries I am known as someone with really high pain tolerance... However, I went past - term and needed to be induced, contractions were then constant and more painful than I could have imagined, dilation was fast, my perineum did not have much chance to stretch on its own, labor stalled when pushing should have begun, and I ended up with an epidural, pitocin to re-start contractions, and an emergency episiotomy.

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

It wasn't painful, but more like an intense pressure as my baby was bearing down on my pelvis with each contraction.

My contractions were so strong and effective (again, not painful) that she just moved right out with no issues.

I labored for 2 more hours... very intense, very painful and thank God for Mike who literally held my back together with every contraction to help offset the pressure.

Through deep and painful experience with cyclical growth and recession, U.S. private - sector firms have learned to deal with contraction.

But I could feel contractions with both epidurals (they just weren't painful), so I knew when to push.