After the euphoria of the first tremors and perturbations of the baby passes, the future mothers experience the rest of the pregnancy: how do the fights begin, can the fights not start and how long does it take to reach the maternity hospital? Many people are worried that the fights will begin during sleep and you can skip them.
How do you know that the fights began?
Let's figure out how to determine that the fights began and what should be done first. First of all, contractions are the beginning of the birth process, their ultimate goal is the opening of the cervix. A few weeks before childbirth (usually 3-4 weeks), there comes a time when the so-called false contractions begin. It's like a periodic and as it were drawing pains. There may be a feeling of raspiraniya, the fruit begins to press on the pubic bone and the wife feels tingling. How to understand that these are false struggles:
- false bouts are of an unsystematic nature;
- a warm, but a short bath (minutes 15) will remove such pain, but the generic will strengthen;
- intervals between contractions about 15 minutes, do not increase.
What if the fights started?
When the first bouts begin, they are usually not so strong and frequent, so you just need to relax and try to rest (if not to sleep, at least find a comfortable position and relax as much as possible). Do not forget that in a short time you will need to "work" properly. Do not have to endure or try to overcome fights, take it philosophically: your baby is preparing to be born and doing much more difficult work than you, so try to help him in this. Depending on the interval with which the fights begin, you should be ready for the following actions:
- while the intervals are rare and the fights are not strong, you can lie down peacefully, warn your spouse and midwife. If you do not have strength, you can safely collect things;
- go to the hospital is better when the fights are increased to the first time in 10 minutes;
- if the amniotic fluid has passed, it is better to go to the hospital immediately, without waiting for frequent bouts.
The first fights are similar to the pressure in the abdominal cavity, they do not cause any special discomfort, it happens that the sensations are transmitted to the lower back (it looks like pain in the menstrual period). It happens that a woman simply does not know how to understand that labor contractions began, if they were several times false before them. To find out that labor clashes have begun, it is possible both by counting the intervals (for the generic intervals, the interval is always decreasing) and by the observation method: when the warm short bath is received, the contractions intensify, and the appearance of labor clashes is sometimes accompanied by brown discharge.
At what time does the contraction begin?
Contractions can begin at any time of the day, but more often the beginning falls at night. The fact is that the hormone oxytocin is more actively produced at night, namely, it is responsible for the onset of labor. When a woman does not know how to determine that labor contractions have begun, one must observe other signs of the onset of labor:
- If a day or two before the labor in a pregnant woman has gone mucous plug, most likely, labor pains.
- To make it clear that the fights began as a small leakage of amniotic fluid, and their rapid outflow.
- Record the time of bouts.
The most important thing is your mood and concentration during childbirth. If you are very worried that you will not have time to reach the hospital or are afraid of complications, then ask your doctor to put you on a safe basis: this will give you the confidence that you will not miss the start of the most important moment in life and the whole process will be supervised from the very beginning.