For women who give birth for the first time, the most relevant questions are: what happens before the birth, how the fights begin, what do they look like, what is the periodicity and duration of true labor before delivery? Everything is complicated by the fact that a pregnant woman often has false bouts - the so-called harbingers of labor.
In order to distinguish them from real battles before childbirth, you need to answer yourself whether the first sensations of fights are painful or whether the stomach just stains for a short while. If the muscle contraction is not long, has no strict periodicity, and does not bring pain at all, it can be said with certainty that the contractions are false. They can be removed by taking a moderately hot bath or inserting a candle of papaverine into the anus.
Do not be afraid that in this way you will miss the beginning of real struggles. Believe me, true battles can not be cleaned by any baths and medicines. If they start, they will last until the birth itself. And you can hardly miss them.
Begin of labor: contractions
If you feel that the painful sensations in the lower abdomen do not pass, but on the contrary become stronger and become more frequent, this indicates the onset of labor. First, only the lower abdomen can hurt, before delivery it drops even lower. There is a feeling, as if someone is pulling his stomach down. The pain resembles the usual pain in menstruation (from whom they are painful).
Over time, the pain increases somewhat and goes up - to the bottom of the uterus. From her painful sensations as it flows down and eventually pass. At regular intervals, the pain returns, again reaches the peak and gradually passes. At this stage it's time to begin to detect the time of the fight and the time between contractions. In parallel, you can gather and go to the hospital.
As a rule, while the frequency of labor before birth is not too big and the fight itself lasts less than a minute, the pain is quite tolerable. It is advisable at this time not to lie and not sit, but walk in the ward or the corridor of the hospital. This will speed up the process of delivery and distract you from pain. With the intensification of contractions and the reduction in the time between attacks, the pain becomes stronger.
When the intervals between contractions were reduced to 4-3 minutes, the doctor examines the woman on the gynecological chair in order to determine the degree of readiness of the cervix - its softness and opening. Usually at this stage there is a significant opening of the cervix. Mucous plug at this point in most cases already departs. It looks like thick mucous discharge, sometimes a little pinkish or even bloody.
Some women give up water earlier than the contractions begin, others - during the fights. But it also happens that the fights reach apogee, but the waters do not go away. In this case, the doctor punctures the amniotic fluid and releases water. This procedure is absolutely painless.
Usually, after the enema and the puncture of the bladder, the fights are gaining even more turns and gradually shifting into attempts. Attempts are felt as an uncontrollable desire to go "big", but the chair does not have a woman. At this time, in no case can not go to the toilet, because at any time the birth can begin.
With the beginning of attempts, a woman is laid on the delivery table, the perineum is treated, high rag-top shoes are put on her feet.
As a rule, a woman suffers 2-3 attempts to have a baby born into the world. That is, from the moment of putting it on the delivery table and until the birth of the long-awaited baby, it takes about 10-15 minutes.
That's all! After that, you can be congratulated on the birth of a son or daughter and praise for endurance and patience, which helped to endure and give birth to a new man.