The last trimester of pregnancy is an exciting and alarming period for a woman. Her anxiety increases: "Will I miss the fight? How can I understand that I have to go to the hospital? Can I survive pain? " Often these experiences are in vain and skip the beginning of real contractions you can hardly succeed.
How to understand training bouts
Throughout the third trimester, a woman often feels small cuts. These are training fights that prepare the uterus to future childbirth, or in another fight on Brackston Hicks. Many women mistakenly take them for the beginning of childbirth, especially in the last weeks, but there are several distinctive features for which you can easily determine the "false" bouts:
- equal, non-reducing gaps;
- irregularity - you can feel them sometimes once a hour, sometimes every 20 minutes;
- they are practically painless.
Feeling any unusual cuts - stop and listen to yourself. Track the dynamics - if the frequency does not grow and their intensity is gradually weakening, you can safely stay at home and do our own business.
How to understand premature contractions
You can quietly treat these sensations if they occur after 36 weeks of pregnancy. In cases where they arose before this period and are accompanied by a strong pulling pain in the back and abdomen, unusual discharge or bleeding, then it is necessary to rush to the hospital. Urgent hospitalization will help doctors to keep your pregnancy and do not give the child to be born ahead of time.
How to understand true contractions before childbirth?
A woman who is preparing to become a mother for the first time is quite difficult to determine their feelings and recognize real predial contractions. Each of each proceeds in different ways, someone feels weak low-butter pains in the lower back, others compare them with menstrual pain, others feel like a stalemate. These signs can also determine "false" cuts, identify true contractions on the following signs:
- duration more than 30 seconds;
- reducing breaks between fights;
- gradual increase in pain;
- regularity.
Blood selection may also appear, which determines the opening of the neck, and can move water. If the water moved away, you can be sure that a maximum of 15 hours you will meet with your baby.
When to go to the hospital?
At the time when you felt abbreviations - calm down, take a comfortable position and start fixing the battle intervals. You can mark them manually or with the help of a special application, the main thing at that moment relax and not think about pain. Just and fear at this moment is not the best assistant.
If the duration between abbreviations is large (20-30 minutes) and they last less than 30 seconds, then the child is not yet ready to appear. If the water has not yet moved away - you can take a warm bath or shower, call close and call an ambulance. If the intervals are 5-7 minutes, then it is necessary to immediately go to the hospital.
How to facilitate pain during battles?
Of course, you can always ask the doctor about epidural anesthesia. But this unsafe way can negatively affect the health of the baby not yet born and the mother itself. To pain during battles it is worth treating easier, after all, this is a physiological process. The pain is a natural result during the passage of the child in the generic paths and it is worth thinking not about their own comfort, but about the state of a newborn.
The main way that helps is easier to carry pain during battles - proper breathing. Someone thinks that the cry makes it easy to pain, but actually creates unnecessary tension and does not give the cervix to open. If time and opportunity allows, visit special courses to prepare future mothers. If not, let's study this question on your own training rollers on the Internet.
It will be great if a close person is near, which can make a relaxing massage on the lower back area. If there is no such possibility, you can massage the bottom of the back of the back yourself or ask the midwife.
During childbirth, your psychological attitude is especially important. If you first prepare and you will know what is happening with your body at a particular moment, then your calm attitude will remove an excess voltage and reduce pain. Positive thoughts and emotions will help you get rid of fear and meet your baby as soon as possible.