Is back labour more painful??!

[ParisJeTadore]

Im freaking out now that I wont know what labour is like if it happens round the front

oh, you'll know

on the bright side, back labor is a million times worse, so it wont hurt as baD as that. Plus it's easier to find a position for relief. For me sitting and laying down was the worst feeling on the planet, with my face up birth. but with my face down birth i was able to do so without issues.

Yes, I could not get into a comfortable spot while in labour so did a lot of standing which, after 26 hours got to be a bit much You should have seen my face when the delivery nurse demanded I lie on the bed and withstand four contractions, during transition, on my side to try to turn baby! I was ready to sock her

 

[Logan's Mum]

Im freaking out now that I wont know what labour is like if it happens round the front

oh, you'll know

on the bright side, back labor is a million times worse, so it wont hurt as baD as that. Plus it's easier to find a position for relief. For me sitting and laying down was the worst feeling on the planet, with my face up birth. but with my face down birth i was able to do so without issues.

Yes, I could not get into a comfortable spot while in labour so did a lot of standing which, after 26 hours got to be a bit much You should have seen my face when the delivery nurse demanded I lie on the bed and withstand four contractions, during transition, on my side to try to turn baby! I was ready to sock her

I am looking forward to being able to change position more (if I don't have to be induced again), I'm hoping to be more mobile and maybe even give the pool a go. Fingers crossed! I'm hard as nails, me

 

[Anthrogirl]

I had 100% back labor with #1 and she was born sunny side up. #2 was PROM and finally (forcible induction) the back labor with #1 was brutal yet manageable, especially on hands and knees. The uterine hyperstimulation of #2, with contractions lasting 3.5 mins and having 2 peaks was WAY worse! On the bright side, with #2 there was no back labor!

 

[Guppy051708]

Im freaking out now that I wont know what labour is like if it happens round the front

oh, you'll know

on the bright side, back labor is a million times worse, so it wont hurt as baD as that. Plus it's easier to find a position for relief. For me sitting and laying down was the worst feeling on the planet, with my face up birth. but with my face down birth i was able to do so without issues.

Yes, I could not get into a comfortable spot while in labour so did a lot of standing which, after 26 hours got to be a bit much You should have seen my face when the delivery nurse demanded I lie on the bed and withstand four contractions, during transition, on my side to try to turn baby! I was ready to sock her

I crinch bc i even know that feeling. I remember they forced me to lay down and i couldn't i cried so hard. It was horrible and eventually i demanded them to help me up. It was horrid i totally know that feeling. I really wanted to be standing as well and when i was in the pool i did a lot of hands/knees. I remember when i got in the shower the OB forced my mom, nurse and hubby to hold me up right bc i was so tired but i just couldn't sleep any other way.
Hopefully you never have to experience that again! My second birth, though more intense, was a breeze compared to that horrible back labor evilness!

 

[ParisJeTadore]

Im freaking out now that I wont know what labour is like if it happens round the front

oh, you'll know

on the bright side, back labor is a million times worse, so it wont hurt as baD as that. Plus it's easier to find a position for relief. For me sitting and laying down was the worst feeling on the planet, with my face up birth. but with my face down birth i was able to do so without issues.

Yes, I could not get into a comfortable spot while in labour so did a lot of standing which, after 26 hours got to be a bit much You should have seen my face when the delivery nurse demanded I lie on the bed and withstand four contractions, during transition, on my side to try to turn baby! I was ready to sock her

I crinch bc i even know that feeling. I remember they forced me to lay down and i couldn't i cried so hard. It was horrible and eventually i demanded them to help me up. It was horrid i totally know that feeling. I really wanted to be standing as well and when i was in the pool i did a lot of hands/knees. I remember when i got in the shower the OB forced my mom, nurse and hubby to hold me up right bc i was so tired but i just couldn't sleep any other way.
Hopefully you never have to experience that again! My second birth, though more intense, was a breeze compared to that horrible back labor evilness!

lol! Are you sure we didn't have the same labour Yes...as much as I try to forget I remember trying to get relief in the shower (they refused to let me have a bath as they thought it would slow my labour even more) and being so tired that I was falling asleep in a chair, leaning against dh between contractions. The really hot water did help but it was still agony.

Here's hoping for better next time! Happy to hear that it doesn't have to be as bad as what I went through.

 

[kerrie24]

Ive had one normal and two back to back and they were all the same to me.

 

[XJessicaX]

I have had both. 1st was a 22 hour labour with a persistent posterior baby. Was so continuously painful! My contractions were agony and so close together I wanted to be admitted at 2cm! Asked for epi at 5cm which worked for a bit but then came out and the rest of my awful labour was a haze of pain.

2nd I was terrified of another back labour, during pregnancy I made sure I never laid on my back or leant back and twice a day would get onto all fours. DD2 stayed in the perfect labouring position! On my medical notes labour was down as 40 minutes in total. I say my labour was 2.5 hours. The first 2 of those hours I used TENS (only because I had rented it and wanted to get some use!) and G&A and only because I liked how high it made me. The contractions were absolutely bearable, I was talking to my husband through them and the complete no pain in between contractions took me by surprise! I remember saying to my husband "oh so THIS is what labour is meant to be like, this is easy!".........the last 30 minutes of my labour though was incredibly painful, indescribable pain really. Much much more painful than my back labour but that was because I unknowingly had dilated completely within that 30 minutes and I pushed my daughter out completely med free in 2 mins!

 

[ParisJeTadore]

I have had both. 1st was a 22 hour labour with a persistent posterior baby. Was so continuously painful! My contractions were agony and so close together I wanted to be admitted at 2cm! Asked for epi at 5cm which worked for a bit but then came out and the rest of my awful labour was a haze of pain.

2nd I was terrified of another back labour, during pregnancy I made sure I never laid on my back or leant back and twice a day would get onto all fours. DD2 stayed in the perfect labouring position! On my medical notes labour was down as 40 minutes in total. I say my labour was 2.5 hours. The first 2 of those hours I used TENS (only because I had rented it and wanted to get some use!) and G&A and only because I liked how high it made me. The contractions were absolutely bearable, I was talking to my husband through them and the complete no pain in between contractions took me by surprise! I remember saying to my husband "oh so THIS is what labour is meant to be like, this is easy!".........the last 30 minutes of my labour though was incredibly painful, indescribable pain really. Much much more painful than my back labour but that was because I unknowingly had dilated completely within that 30 minutes and I pushed my daughter out completely med free in 2 mins!

What a great story-thanks for sharing! I'm so happy to hear your second labour was a million times better and so much shorter No wonder it got painful fast...there was no build up!

 

[minnieoxox]

I never pushed baba out but I got to 7cm before I had my emergancy section. My contractions where really strong and about 30 seconds apart from the begining. The pain was all in my lower stomach and legs. If someone asked me in the 3 weeks following I said it's the worst pain in the world, now I've got over it and kind of forgotten the pain, in my head it 'wasn't that bad' and that is what I say but if I really think about it I know it was. I was screaming and cursing and thrashing around and as soon as it stopped it started again. So I think though some people have easy labours sometimes you forget the pain.