Contractions may feel like waves that radiate throughout your core. You may also feel a cramp-like sensation, pelvic pressure, a dull backache, or your belly become hard.

What do contractions feel like?

劳动收缩是子宫收缩的物理方式,以促进婴儿的分娩。使用时,所有身体肌肉在使用时都会收紧并缩短(合同)。子宫是strongest muscles在身体里。

Labor contractions are often described as feeling like a wave, because their intensity slowly rises, peaks, and then slowly decreases.

Labor contractions often:

  • 从您的背部辐射到核心的前部
  • make your whole belly rock hard
  • 感觉像抽筋
  • 包括骨盆压力
  • 包括暗淡的腰痛

通常与宫缩相关的一词是“痛苦”,但是您可以将思想重定向以使它们具有生产力,苛刻和强烈的强烈感。

Read on to learn more about what to expect from contractions, and what you should do once contractions start.

收缩如何工作?

Contractions help move a baby downward by tightening the top of the uterus and applying pressure on the cervix. This pressure causes the cervix to open, or dilate.

Contractions can last anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes.

激素催产素会刺激劳动收缩,并使它们在整个劳动中的发生。随着劳动的进展,宫缩通常:

  • 变得更加激烈
  • 持续较长时间
  • come closer together

Sometimes, contractions are less frequent once you’re finally pushing the baby out, but they’ll still be very strong to work with you to get the baby out.

宫缩什么时候开始?

对于一个完整的婴儿,至少您的宝宝至少要等到您的婴儿才能开始37 weeks

If you experience contractions earlier than 37 weeks, seek immediate medical attention. These are known as早产contractions, and may be a sign that you’re going into labor before your baby has fully developed.

你也可能会觉得布拉克斯顿希克斯宫缩最早second trimester

布拉克斯顿希克斯contractions are sometimes called practice contractions. They’re believed to help prepare your body for labor. These generally don’t last very long and aren’t painful.

宫缩也并不总是意味着您正在积极劳动。

一些妇女在劳动最终开始之前就经历了几天的宫缩几天。这被称为前驱劳动

劳动的症状是什么?|人工标志

Call your doctor or midwife if you’re having contractions, whether they’re coming regularly or irregularly spaced.

如果您的宫缩有规律的模式 - 这意味着它们的间隔大约相同的距离 - 并且您有following signs,您可能正在劳动:

Cervical ripening or thinning is another sign, but you won’t be able to diagnose this symptom on your own. Only a trained doctor, midwife, or doula can tell you if your cervix is actually thinning and opening in preparation for the baby to be born.

How do you know your contractions are a sign of labor and not something else?

可能很难知道您是否有收缩,圆形韧带疼痛, 或者indigestion-especially if you’re a first-time mom.

人们谈论“真正的收缩”和“虚假劳动”,但不要使用这种术语,而要注意您的感觉,以便您可以与医生谈论它。

通常,休息,改变立场和补液会在实际劳动之前停止不规则收缩。这些行动不会阻止真正的劳动。

如果您的宫缩以常规方式出现,并且您还有其他劳动迹象,请立即致电您的医生。

如何时间收缩

定时收缩是评估您是否在劳动中的重要组成部分。劳动收缩将以正常的时间模式出现,频率缓慢增加。

Early in your三个月,您的医生或助产士应该开始告诉您期望什么以及如何与人工迹象交流。

Ask them when they’d like you to head to the hospital or call them based on contraction timing.

从一个人开始到下一个开始开始的收缩时间。

To time contractions:

  • When you feel the tightening in your abdomen, immediately note the time.
  • 尝试注意收缩是否达到峰值。
  • Once the tightening stops completely, note how long it lasted, but don’t stop timing the contraction.
  • Wait to feel the next tightening before restarting your stopwatch.

模拟时钟对于定时收缩最准确。您还可以使用简单的计时器按钮下载电话应用程序,因此您根本不必考虑它。An app如果您焦虑不安,可以更加放松。

首次母亲的常见经验法则是3-1-1:宫缩每3分钟,持续1分钟,然后经常出现1小时。

如果您要出生,您的医生可能希望您在去医院之前给他们打电话。如果他们没有提及他们的偏好,请在您的第三个学期任命之一中询问。

另外,根据以前的出生或既定状况,您的医生也可能要求您保持联系,即使您的收缩每5至10分钟到来。

以下是通常的收缩时间表

Labor stage 收缩之间的持续时间 收缩长度
早期劳动 5 to 30 minutes 30至45秒
积极的劳动 3至5分钟 45至60秒
transition (final stage before pushing) 30秒至2分钟 60到90秒

What are the different types of contractions

在怀孕的任何时候,您可能会感到子宫收缩。

The following are some of the common types of contractions you may experience during pregnancy:

早产收缩

These contractions are real labor happening before your baby is ready to be born. You’ll have symptoms consistent with active labor.

布拉克斯顿希克斯contractions

这些是通常不会痛苦的“练习”收缩,不应该在您的背上感觉到。脱水,性别或全膀胱都可以触发这些收缩。

返回劳动

这是某些女性在收缩期间感到的更为重点的痛苦。不仅仅是您在怀孕期间可能会遇到的平常背部酸痛,但最常见的是,尽管并非总是如此,但由于婴儿在子宫内的位置而引起的。

返回劳动可能包括不规则的收缩和更长的时间推动。

如果您有早期收缩该怎么办?

There’s no guessing when a baby will be born.

怀孕37周后,婴儿被认为是完整的。劳动通常发生在怀孕的37至40周之间。

37周之前的收缩称为早产,并向婴儿冒险。

如果你不是完整的术语和收缩that aren’t going away by resting and hydrating, call your doctor right away. Most offices have an answering service after-hours, so call any time, day or night.

真正的妈妈必须说什么

我们要求一些妈妈描述他们的宫缩,这就是他们必须说的:

“挤压激增,使您更加接近与宝贝见面。”- 凯特琳。

“Intense tightening and sense of pressure that slowly built, peaked, then released.” — Lauren.

“有点像更强的时期绞痛版本。我工作了两天,整个时间,我实际上并没有觉得收缩是痛苦的,直到他们诱使我,那时,爆炸了!痛苦的收缩。”- 玛丽

下一步

如果您已达到学期并且正在宫缩,那么该集中精力并为D天(送货日)做好准备了。

Keep in mind that it could be a very long day, and for some women, it may even extend over several days.

首先,放松。尤其是在白天或黑夜的早期,您不想浪费任何能量。

洗个澡或坐下来阅读。

当您等待时:

  • 保留您的收缩时间的书面日志。
  • 吃不会让您胃部不适的轻零食。
  • Call your doctor or midwife, and care team (doula, partner, or babysitter for older kids).
  • Do something fun or relaxing to pass the time.
  • 保持水分。
  • 收拾行李,将消息放在电子邮件中,因为是时候生孩子了。

如果您是早产,请立即致电医生或助产士,或者直接去医院。如果您正在做早产,则需要尽快评估。

如果您还没有收拾好医疗袋,请抓住一些必需品,并请朋友或家人打包其他东西在医院带给您。