Not exact matches
My midwife was shocked my baby was in the correct position because I had
back labor... and she really wanted his shoulder dystocia to be due to a
bad position and not because he just physically wouldn't fit through me.
The contractions (which feel more like really
bad menstrual cramps than
labor contractions, for the most part) are what your uterus shrinking
back to normal feels like.
I knew that
labor in general would be tough and that
back labor was a possibility, but I was simply told that it was like
bad back cramps.
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.
The
back labor was the
worst part of it all for me, well that and going 8 days over due!
One mom remembers her mom ducking out periodically for possibly the
worst possible reason: «She kept leaving during my 16 - hour
labor to smoke and kept coming
back in my room reeking so
bad I was nauseous.»
I have no way to describe
back labor to people who haven't experienced it for themselves, but it was seriously the
worst thing I have ever felt.
Working Families Party Executive Director Dan Cantor forwarded this memo he sent out yesterday to the
labor -
backed party's NYS staff, seeking to find some good in a moment he thinks «can fairly be described as the
worst political moment in memory.»
But he's also the guy who, according to The New York Times,
back in 2010 vowed «to counter the well - financed
labor unions he believes have bullied previous governors and lawmakers into making
bad decisions.»
In fact, many moms are confined to a bed on their
backs, one of the
worst positions to
labor in because it narrows the pelvis.
This disparity is rooted in structural, race - based disadvantages, including, according to Marshall Steinbaum's research, «segregation within higher education, which relegates minority students to the
worst - performing institutions, discrimination in both credit and
labor markets, and the underlying racial wealth gap that means black and Hispanic students have a much smaller cushion of family wealth to fall
back on, both to finance higher education in the first place and also should any difficulty with debt repayment arise.»