Hip Labor - Page 3

[CountryMommy]

I had horrible, crippling hip pain during the end of my active labour/beginning pushing stage with my first baby. The pain was unbelievable and nothing seemed to help, my husband tried squeezing my hips together, rubbing my legs, etc and it just hurt so much. My baby was born normal presentation.

During labour with my second baby, I was TERRIFIED waiting for the hip labour to start. My second baby was posterior through the entire labour and ended up being born sunny side up (possibly because I had anterior placenta) I experienced back labour during that labour but the back labour pain was much more tolerable the the hip labour I experienced with my first.

I am pregnant again and am going to stalk this thread. I really do not want to experience that again if I can help it.

[sarahlein]

I am so glad I found this thread. I had the exact pain you described on my right hip in my labor with my daughter 2 years ago. I have a high pain tolerance, and handled the contractions fine, but I began having mild hip pain about 15 hours into my 30 hour labor. It became severe to the point where I could not feel the contractions. Got the epidural at 6 for the hip pain, not the contractions. It helped for a while until pushing, and then it came back full force and the epidural couldn't cut it. I ended up with a c-section because my daughter got stuck in my pelvis, around 0 to +1 station, even after  4 hours of pushing. I really think from reading this thread she was either turned the wrong way or asynclintic.

Hoping for a VBAC with this next baby, and hoping the hip pain doesn't happen again. It was a nightmare, I felt like I was losing my mind from the pain. 

I hope it was just a fluke, but the repeat stories do have me worried about possible defect in my structure that points my babies that way. I do have scoliosis and some hip uneveness.

So grateful to see I am not alone and not crazy though.

[Magali]

No not alone and not crazy!  It was very frustrating during my labor when I knew the nurses and Dr. thought the pain was just contractions.  But the contractions were hard and hurt, but they came and went.  The hip pain stayed for hours at a time and I remember not being able to escape it.  The contractions, I could ride them out but the hip pain controlled me.  I've noticed quite a few posters on this thread saying how the pushing phase took a long time.I was lucky and I only needed to push a few times.