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Last reviewed: 20.11.2021
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Birth pain - body protection
Pain as such is protecting the body from various irritants. With the birth pain, the stimulus is very strong. Therefore, the body reacts so powerfully. The pain is created in order to draw the attention of the brain to the diseased organ. Then the brain can include mechanisms for eliminating or neutralizing irritants.
With birth pain, as with any other, the release of adrenaline - a stress hormone - is just a record, the muscles are tense, they are hypertensive, the whole body is ready to react to stress by escape or strong aggression. Since no escape occurs, the irritated organ continues to ache, begging the brain for salvation. Until the pain stimulus is eliminated.
Kinds of ancestral pain
Pain in fights. Why is it happening?
When the first period of labor comes, the contraction, the cervix opens. This is due to the fact that the muscle fibers contract, and then they are no longer the same as before, but shift. Wolves at the same stretch, the muscles are involuntarily reduced - and the woman is overtaken by severe pain. These are fights.
As the woman observes and as they are taught in the clan courses, the bouts are different in strength and intensity. They then grow, then pass, then to fall upon the woman with renewed vigor. In the first stage of labor, the contractions are still short - with a duration of e greater than 5 seconds. Then he lets go for 20 minutes.
Then the bouts last longer - up to one minute. This is the second period of childbirth. The intervals between contractions are much shorter - they are reduced from 20 minutes in the first period to 3 minutes in the second.
Contractions during the first delivery
They can last from 8 to 12 hours for women who give birth for the first time. The pains are excruciating and the woman is exhausted. Contractions during childbirth can disturb a woman about a third of the time from all the time when she gives birth. That is, up to 4 hours in general, the first-borns can last a fight.
The uterus can contract in the same way as any other organ, for example, the muscles when walking or smiling. But when this contraction occurs during labor, it is very painful.
In addition, that the uterus shrinks, the pain becomes stronger, because inside the uterus is also the pressure produced by the baby's head, moving along the birth canal.
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Why does the pain fade to the end of the delivery?
Uterus is the same organ as any other, and is subject to training. During the time when fights occur, the uterus so "exercises" in contractions that it becomes strong and perfectly withstands severe pain. It can already contract without the pain that 8-10 hours ago, and its contractions become more powerful.
What else causes birth pain?
When the cervix is opened, the muscle fibers receive much less oxygen than before. The reason for this is the clamping of the vessels with muscles, when they contract.
Nerve endings during labor are squashed, and the muscles of the uterus are overtaxed. This is an additional pain during childbirth, especially in the first half.
Is it possible to reduce this pain during labor? Completely - no. But to alleviate this pain can be due to prenatal training in special schools for parturient women (there are many such now in large cities and women's consultations). Or else the pain can be reduced by changing the intensity of breathing.
Will the pain decrease because of the opening of the bladder?
The procedure for opening the bladder does not provoke pain. It does not hurt. The bubble is opened on a generic chair. The legs of a woman are divorced, the doctor inserts a finger into the vagina, then into this lumen - a thin hook, which is engaged by the fetal bladder. It bursts, liquid is poured out from there, and the bubble itself does not hurt, since it lacks receptors for pain.
After the opening of the bladder, the woman begins to grow contractions. Of course, they are inseparable from the birth pain. The pain grows, the uterus contracts, and this makes it even more painful. Then the contractions recede, allowing the mother to recover and prepare for the next contractions of the uterus.
After the puncture of the fetal bladder, contractions first give a dull pain, and it is unclear where it comes from (it may be back pain and abdominal pain, its exact location is difficult to determine and the woman is lost). Pain (it is defined as visceral) can give to different areas of the body: in the leg, thigh, groin, rump, shin. This is due to the fact that the nerve endings spread throughout the body and impart impulses to different parts of it.
As the birth of the uterus stretches (or rather, not the uterus itself, and its ligaments), and this is another factor of pain during labor, in particular, in fights.
Tribal pains with attempts
As soon as the first period of labor passes, the contractions acquire a slightly different character. Pain (its frequency and intensity) varies. If so far only the uterus has participated in the delivery process with her pains due to stretching of the muscle fibers, now the efforts of other organs are also joining her efforts.
In the attempts involved diaphragm, pelvic floor and abdominal press. Their muscles are overextended, contracted, stretched to push out the fetus, and pains during childbirth intensify.
If a woman was properly prepared for childbirth, then, of course, they told that attempts can be regulated. So, and pain at attempts - too. The difference from the pain in the uterus that the woman can not control the efforts of the uterus, and the efforts of other organs with attempts - can. You just need to listen to the doctor's recommendations without panicking. Especially recommendations that relate to breathing.
The interval between attempts is from one minute to a quarter of an hour. And in general, the duration of the attempts is up to 60 seconds. This is for those women who give birth for the first time. Those who give birth in the second and more times, experience attempts in general to half an hour.
Features of pain in the first and second stages of labor
Pain in the first and second stages of labor is affected by such areas of the body as the sacrum (it especially hurts). His inner part is irritated, and this is accompanied by excessive tension of the ligament of the uterus and sacrum, who are not yet accustomed to this situation and are also in pain. The fetus presses on the muscles of the birth canals, the pelvic bones and so the pain in different parts of the body disturbs and exhausts the woman until she gives birth.
The pains become more intense, but it is already well felt in which area they are concentrated - this is typical for the second period of labor. Pain is felt in the perineum, vagina, rectum. The woman seems to be blowing, and at the same time it hurts. Physicians call this pain somatic. To it joins the tension of the muscles of the abdominal press, which also contract during labor.
Pain in childbirth is a natural process that is inevitable. The main thing is to listen to the doctor and follow his recommendations, then the process of delivery will take place with less energy costs.