I am trying to figure out why my labor with my second pg was so strange and so much more painful than my first labor. I am open to any ideas or thoughts anyone wishes to share.
My labor with DS1 was nearly painless. Contractions felt like huge bunching muscles, which was exactly what I expected. Even during transition, I never felt pain during contractions, just a very insistent pushy feeling. The only pain I had was in my lower back, easily managed by heating pads and the hot water in the tub. Labor began spontaneously with a small loss of amniotic fluid, and lasted over 17 hours. I required no augmentation, or intervention of any kind.
My labor with my new LO was so weird, and quite painful. I didn't feel any real muscular contractions, only a sharp pain in my cervical area, deep in my pelvis. It felt like one continuous Pap exam. There was no slow build-up to the ctrx, the only sign I had of each one, was that deep, sharp pain. They made me cry.
I had no clue where I was in labor, the entire time. I had a hard time timeing the ctrx, and they were ineffective. I made almost no progress beside effacement for over eight hours. The third time I was checked and was still only 4 cm's, it took 4 different nurses to find my cervix, which had rotated up and behind my baby's head. I wanted to die.
When I got into the hot tub, I finally started making progress, almost three cm's in an hour and 1/2. Before that point, I wasn't even sure I was in labor.
During transition, the ctrx got more painful, and closer together, until they seemed like one. I had absolutely NO pushy feeling whatsoever. I hurt so bad, I could not relax, no matter how I tried. I could not relax my pelvic floor, and I have no idea how I managed to bring my baby down at all. Actual delivery was a cakewalk, and my recovery has been too. Neither my baby or I showed any distress. I swore to myself during transition that I would never bear another child, ever again. This labor began with AROM, as I had been diagnosed with PIH and Oligihydramnios (low amniotic fluid). I am still not convinved of either of those things.
Was this because of the amniotomy? My gut aches as I write this, just from remembering, and I am afraid that the fear of pain would prevent me from laboring successfully should we chose to get pregnant again.
Why was it so different?
My labor with DS1 was nearly painless. Contractions felt like huge bunching muscles, which was exactly what I expected. Even during transition, I never felt pain during contractions, just a very insistent pushy feeling. The only pain I had was in my lower back, easily managed by heating pads and the hot water in the tub. Labor began spontaneously with a small loss of amniotic fluid, and lasted over 17 hours. I required no augmentation, or intervention of any kind.
My labor with my new LO was so weird, and quite painful. I didn't feel any real muscular contractions, only a sharp pain in my cervical area, deep in my pelvis. It felt like one continuous Pap exam. There was no slow build-up to the ctrx, the only sign I had of each one, was that deep, sharp pain. They made me cry.
I had no clue where I was in labor, the entire time. I had a hard time timeing the ctrx, and they were ineffective. I made almost no progress beside effacement for over eight hours. The third time I was checked and was still only 4 cm's, it took 4 different nurses to find my cervix, which had rotated up and behind my baby's head. I wanted to die.
When I got into the hot tub, I finally started making progress, almost three cm's in an hour and 1/2. Before that point, I wasn't even sure I was in labor.
During transition, the ctrx got more painful, and closer together, until they seemed like one. I had absolutely NO pushy feeling whatsoever. I hurt so bad, I could not relax, no matter how I tried. I could not relax my pelvic floor, and I have no idea how I managed to bring my baby down at all. Actual delivery was a cakewalk, and my recovery has been too. Neither my baby or I showed any distress. I swore to myself during transition that I would never bear another child, ever again. This labor began with AROM, as I had been diagnosed with PIH and Oligihydramnios (low amniotic fluid). I am still not convinved of either of those things.
Was this because of the amniotomy? My gut aches as I write this, just from remembering, and I am afraid that the fear of pain would prevent me from laboring successfully should we chose to get pregnant again.
Why was it so different?
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