what does it feel like?

Question

i am 7 months pregnant and i want to get ready for labor, can anyone tell me what do contractions feel like and how bad are they?

should i walk around when i start having contractions? or rest?

would u lady's say the contractions hurt more? or the baby coming out? what does that feel like?

Answer 1

If it is your first more than likely you will go over your do date! The contractions fell like period cramps and like you might have to use the bathroom.It is tolerable, more than likely you will have to be induced and you won't feel a thing-promise!

Answer 2

Well every pregnancy and boirth is different. It is very difficult to tell you what it is like. You have braxton hicks contractions right? It starts like that or a tightening of the muscles across your stomach.
It can feel like period pain, mild gentle cramping at first getting progressively worse.
Ways you can get ready? Well learing the lotus position so your legs are supple can help.You need to do some weird positions, so making your legs able to move well without pain will help!
Practice your breathing, it really helps.
Rub creams or oil in your stomach to hopefully lessen stretch marks.
Keep as healthy as you can so you are ready and get as much sleep as possible. Babies often come at night.
When the contractions start a warm bath can be soothing before you go to hospital or the nursing home. Gentle exercise, thioe huge balls to roll on, walking...bieng upright speeds up labour and opens the cervix too. So walking round is a good thing. Don't be too still as it makes the pain worse and the likelyhood of a caesarian more.
Its so hard to describe contraction pain as it is so unlike anything else we experience. It is useful pain...that wont make sens to you. I remember making a lot of noise, not that it hurt loads or anything but i needed to sigh and breathe through it all!
I have had three babies and all have been different. Number one was middlingly bad period pain, the second I was able to be more active and the third I did just with breathing and gas and air! so very different experiences...
I wish you so much good luck!

Answer 3

There are 2 types of contractions and you should know the difference between the two. The one are Braxton Hicks Contractions and the other is Real Labor Contractions:

Braxton-Hicks contractions
Labor contractions

Are irregular
Are regular, lasting about 30-70 seconds each

Do not get closer together over time
Get closer together over time

Don’t get stronger over time Get progressively stronger over time

Sometimes are felt only in the lower abdomen and groin
Often start at your back and move to your front

May stop when you change positions or walk around

Do not stop when you change positions or walk around.

Contractions often feel like your stomach is getting hard, and the baby is kicking really hard but your stomach doesn't soften up, during real labor contractions, your stomach will stay hard.

Contractions can be very painful, but there's no way to determine how intense your contractions will be.

Answer 4

lol..you sound like me before I gave birth for the first time. Labor is different for every woman. Yet we do experience similar pain. It hurt like hell for me. Not to scare you, but only stating how it felt to me. The contractions felt like the ones you have when you have diarrhea, yet ten times plus worse..they get worse the further your cervix opens up. Your legs and back will hurt as well. I hated pushing! I pushed for three hours with my first baby and ten minutes with my second baby..my third pregnancy I was carrying twins and had to have a c-section. If you have a normal vaginal delivery, when you push, you will feel a burning sensation down there. I suggest that you read up on birthing and post labor. You will get the right answers and will feel more informed as to what you will be going through. But I tell you what...you will forget all the pain after your baby is out! You may curse. You may scream yell and grunt..but once you see your lil one for the first time you will not care about the pain anymore!...Just listen and do what the medical personal tell you to do while in labor and you will be fine.....it will hurt..but well worth it!

Answer 5

Every labor and delivery is different....but I think any woman would agree that contractions are PAINFUL!!! I didn't have drugs with either of my kids (not by choice).....they start off as period cramps and then progress.

The only thing I remember about my kids' head coming out and this might sound realllllllly weird....but it feels almost as if you just had a really big bowel movement, just from another end. That's the best I can explain it at least.

Answer 6

I knew when the contractions started; you will too! You just won't be comfortable (I was in bed when mine started.) People kept telling me 'I would know' But honestly you will!

Contractions start off by feeling like period cramps and I was already 4 centimeters dialated when I got to the hospital. (It wasn't as bad as I expected.) It definately hurts more to have the baby come out. (I got the epidural after 4hrs of labour and they did offer it earlier.) The epidural takes all the contraction pain away...all I felt after that was pushing the baby out and I won't lie...that did hurt a lot!

But it was worth it!

Overall; its not as bad as people make it out to be (especially on tv) Just pray a lot beforehand and during. That really got me through!

Answer 7

I am sorry but in my opinion one was just as painful as the other. Not to scare you but it hurts like Hell!

I did not even know I was in labor at first. I worked in an office of 4 women and we were all very close knit. After I came back from the bathroom for like the 8th time that morning they asked if I was ok. I told them I was fine just thought I was constipated...they convinced me to go home and that was a sign of labor. I told them they were crazy, I had NEVER heard that, and I read every book I could get my hands on when I was pregnant.

Needless to say, I went home at 12:30 in the afternoon and by 6pm it was painfully obvious I was in labor.

I was in extreme pain and when the epidural was done, it was over no pain at all!

Get an epidural or at least take something for the pain! Don't put yourself through needless pain like some women just to be au natural. I had an epidural and was in labor several hours.....won't scare you with how long but long story short I would only dialate to a 5 and so eventually the had to admister plutosm (not sure on spelling of that). It is to speed your labor and help you dialate quicker.

Now I was one of the unfortunate souls that once given plutosm the epidural was not working that well cause the pains were so strong. They increased it as much as they could but I felt everything (at least if felt that way).

And me personally, the head was nothing, it's the damn shoulders! Owww is all I have to say about that. They had to assist me with getting her out after 1 hour of pushing. They used the forcepts (I had a great dr and my baby had NO marks from it) I just could not push her out.

Later I found out why, once they weighed her she weighed a WHOPPING 9 POUNDS AND 11 OZ! No fricking wonder!
At least I did not feel so bad after I heard that.

It is the worst pain but I have a few friends including my sis whose labor lasted 1-4 hrs and the baby literally jumped out on its own with not much pain at all!

I wish this for you. However, pain and all it is sooooooooooooo worth it ! I would not change a thing. However my daughter is 10 and she is and always will be an only child. Once was enough for me. I wanted a girl, got my girl, and figure why test fate and put myself thru that again.

I tell you though even after being exausted from being in labor for 3 days I did not sleep for 3 more days. I could not quit staring at this beautiful miracle. She was and still is the the best thing that every happened to me.

Good Luck to you Sweetie!

Answer 8

Contractions are like a really strong menstral cramp, but each woman and each pregnancy feels different. The pain I felt for all of my babies are different from one another so someone else can't tell you how you're contractions feel (especially if you have an epidural). I'm sorry to tell you this, but it's true.

Answer 9

contractions feel like a really tight cramping a period pain times by a million mine were pretty bad but i had a natural birth and low pain tolerance they do hurt and they hurt bad but so worth it as you get a little baby at the end of it all, good luck

Answer 10

You'll know when you are having contractions at least one's that are for sure signs of being in labor. For me it felt like someone jabbing a knife into my uterus. They were like period cramps but a gazillion times worse. I had a natural delivery and boy was I in some pain. Good luck!