Actually, the worst part was how a contraction would kick in whenever the nurse put the baby monitor on my stomach! It feels like cramping when you get your period, just a little more intense. And the pushing is a relief. Once you hold the baby you forget all about the pain you were in. A handful of women mentioned that the pain didn't escalate until their water broke. Here are their experiences. It was more of a tightening that got worse and worse until it peaked, then dropped off.
If I could have had this particular pain once an hour or even once every 15 minutes, I'd have been able to tolerate it. But the fact that just as soon as you get through one contraction another is coming, that's what wears you down.
The pain was so bad that in the middle of one contraction I imagined that I walked away from my body. I tried to picture myself walking on the beach. Of course, that didn't work and my next thought was of the epidural. It felt like someone had taken hold of my insides and were wringing them out like a wet dishrag. It appears that the majority of moms who participated in our survey opted for an epidural—and were happy they did.
After eight hours of labor pains I opted for the epidural. I had immediate relief. The breathing I learned in class helped, but it was hard to concentrate because of the pain. Thank God for the epidural—from someone who was not sure if she was going to get it when she first went to the hospital! The best way I can think to describe it is to say that it felt like my stomach was getting an extremely bad cramp—like a charley horse , but in my stomach!
The pain was really bad, but I'm not afraid to go through labor again. Some moms went with unmedicated childbirth and managed their pain in other ways. I've had IV drugs, an epidural, and nothing. I honestly preferred nothing. I did not find that this really relieved my pain but rather made my labor feel like a nasty stomach virus.
I swore I would never have anesthesia again because of how awful I felt afterwards. My second baby was born naturally. I found this labor to be much easier to cope with. The pain was very intense, but it was a clean pain almost like a sports injury. Pushing was more difficult.
It felt like my whole pelvis was made of breaking glass, but this passed very quickly and I felt terrific almost immediately after delivery. The good news is that in between contractions there is no pain, and the contractions only last about a minute. I had four children with no pain medication. I kept my eyes closed and concentrated on my husband's voice and hummed through the contractions.
It was the most empowering thing I've ever done. I would do labor over again in a heartbeat; the nine months preceding it is the hard part. Most moms said that by the time they got to the pushing stage, the worst was over. Some, though, really didn't like to push and initially had a hard time figuring out how to push effectively. It was mostly vaginal pressure that was so painful. But once you get to the pushing stage and have that feeling that is similar to having a bowel movement, you are almost done.
And you know that if you can just make it through the last little part, you will meet this wonderful little person you have dreamed about for so long! Lamaze takes a neutral position toward pain medicine, encouraging women to make an informed decision about whether it's right for them.
The Bradley method also called Husband-Coached Birth emphasizes a natural approach to birth and the active participation of the baby's father as birth coach. A major goal of this method is the avoidance of medicines unless absolutely necessary. The Bradley method also focuses on good nutrition and exercise during pregnancy and relaxation and deep-breathing techniques as a method of coping with labor. Although the Bradley method advocates a medicine-free birth experience, the classes do discuss unexpected complications or situations, like emergency cesarean sections.
A variety of pain medicines can be used during labor and delivery, depending on the situation. Many women rely on such medicines, and it can be a huge relief when pain is quickly eased and energy can be focused on getting through the contractions. Talk to your health care provider about the risks and benefits of each type of medicine. Analgesics ease pain, but don't numb it completely. They can be given many ways. If they are given intravenously through an IV into a vein or through a shot into a muscle, they can affect the whole body.
These medicines can cause side effects in the mother, including drowsiness and nausea. They also can have effects on the baby. Regional anesthesia. This is what most women think of when they consider pain medicine during labor. By blocking the feeling from specific regions of the body, these methods can be used for pain relief in both vaginal and cesarean section deliveries. Epidurals , a form of local anesthesia, relieve most of the pain from the entire body below the belly button, including the vaginal walls, during labor and delivery.
An epidural involves medicine given by an anesthesiologist through a thin, tube-like catheter that's inserted in the woman's lower back. The amount of medicine can be increased or decreased according to a woman's needs.
Very little medicine reaches the baby, so usually there are no effects on the baby from this method of pain relief. Epidurals do have some drawbacks — they can cause a woman's blood pressure to drop and can make it difficult to pee. They can also cause itching, nausea, and headaches in the mother. In this study, it was tried to avoid any prejudice about the studied phenomenon before and after the interviews, so this study became based on the reality. First, for sympathizing with participants all of the manuscripts were read and important phrases were extracted.
In the next step the meaning of each important phrase were described. Then codes were categorized and these categories were referred to initial protocols for confirming their validity.
In the next step results were combined to this study as perfect description for the phenomenon and then were reviewed to obtain clear meaning and avoid any ambiguity. At the end the results were referred to participants for the confirmation. This study was done by the interview with 14 help seekers who were hospitalized in the postpartum wards of Isfahan hospitals.
Among all of the participants, 9 of them had their first delivery, 4 and one had their second and fifth delivery, respectively and all of them were aged between years. After analyzing and extracting meaningful codes, written interviews were categorized into 4 main concepts:.
One of the unique aspects of labor pain is that this physiologic process is not simple. My husband said that this baby must be boy. They said that the examination should be done in the middle of the pain. My pain was increased during the examination.
Every hour someone came for the examination. God is great, I really believe in God. The more you are in pain, the more you call God and God would help you more. The concept of the results of the labor pain has concluded from early and late reactions to the labor pain.
So many authors have written about special importance of social-cultural factors in pain related beliefs and how to react to it. I was crying because of the pain.
Going through natural delivery with all of its difficulties and sweet moments cause different perceptions in different help seekers. I was alone in a room and nobody answered me when I cried out.
You must tolerate all of the pain until you are going to labor, one of the participants. There are some concerns about treatment expenses. It was there just to get more money from people and they took it to everyone and told them that it costs you 15 to 20 thousands Toman. Results of this study showed that help-seekers gain special experiences during delivery.
Based on the presented experiences, labor pain has a special nature which includes pains characteristics regarding its type and location and also includes feelings which accompany pain. Emotional and mental features which were described by the participants are valuable experiences that should be taken into consideration because labor pain is one of the most severe pains that a woman should endure in her life.
One of the unique aspects of the labor pain is that this physiologic process is not easy. Also Kathleen in a study achieved that the labor pain can be enjoyable, relaxing and pleasure. Experiences showed that medical system and the family participations which were supporting the help seekers could decrease the pain and make it tolerable. Religious thoughts and some of the personal characteristics could also help the help seeker during this experience. But many of the actions in support system and personal characteristics could be bothering during labor pain and even make it worse and these factors were effective in making delivery a bad memory.
In Asia and Africa, boys are in clear superiority. Another result of this study was the results of the pain in participants. Considering the characteristics and cultural essence of the individuals has a special importance in the way they face pain. Unwillingness toward natural delivery and increase the number of cesarean sections in the country is a result of negative viewpoints that help-seekers have gained through their experiences and transmitted to the society.
One of the reasons of fear of natural delivery is transmission of bad experiences and hearing horrible stories from women who experiences difficult natural deliveries before. This is one of the reasons that women with their first pregnancy prefer cesarean section.
0コメント