Back contractions?

[BrightSparkles]

What do they feel like??

[Mad Scientist]

They feel like really bad period pain in your back. The pain doesn't stop between contractions. It's a constant painful painful ache. All in your lower back. As labour progresses they can make it hard to move around. This is all from my experience of an 8 hour posterior labour with a full OP vaginal birth. I'm sure other people may have experienced them differently. Hope that helps why do you ask?

[BrightSparkles]

why do you ask?

Thanks hun. I was asking out of curiousity but also to be a bit more knowledgeable. I've been feeling REALLY strange all day and had loads and loads and loads of back pain (could just be where baby is sitting ) but niggly period like pains. I've heard of back contractions but never really heard them described.

[Astrid]

The pain for me would go away between contractions, it was very much like bad period pain in the lower back. If found relief when DH massaged my lower back, he massaged so much though he rubbed away a layer of my skin.

[Roryrory]

I had a OP vaginal birth with #1 - the pain was constant but I found a heat pack helped a lot, that and standing up during contractions.

[~Minny~]

Excrusiating period pain! For me anyways with both DD and DS postierier labours! The pain stopped for me between contrations but radiated to the front in between.

[Jakabella]

Like my back and bum were going to explode! My pain didnt go away between contractions either.. was just terrible the whole time - due to my DD being posteriour.

[butterfly_warrior]

We started out with a posterior labour. For me I felt back pain at the same time as feeling my belly tighten. The pain went away between each one, but Sam turned before things got really interesting. I have heard of people with posterior babies just having constant back pain and as a result not really knowing they were actually in labour. It was very different for me, though.

BW

[*Beema*]

Very painful, very low in the back, around the coxyc bone and a bit above, DD was posterior, and I found I got relief having it rubbed, didn't have time for a heat pack, but I reckon that would have been very effective as well.

I never really got much pain in the front at all, my belly tightened but the pain was clearly only in my back.

Will be thinking of you hun and if this is everything starting, wish you all the very best for a lovely birth

[Mad Scientist]

Thanks hun. I was asking out of curiousity but also to be a bit more knowledgeable. I've been feeling REALLY strange all day and had loads and loads and loads of back pain (could just be where baby is sitting ) but niggly period like pains. I've heard of back contractions but never really heard them described.

With DD1 I had back pain all day before my waters broke and contractions started. Apparently I'd been in pre labour all day! I just thought it was bad back pain from being pregnant. If things are starting, good luck with it all. Posterior births are definitely possible to get through as you can see from all the ladies who replied xx

[kungfubecca]

not sure of the terminology, but I feel labour through my back because of the way my uterous faces, I think it's like retro facing uterous or something, My bubs haven't been posterior but i feel a lot of labour in my back and a lot of presure on my bowels during labour. feels like the bad period pain I used to get prior to bubs number 1.

I found nothing helped and anything on my back including a massage wich i normally love was increadibly annoying!!

[sassy123]

mine was like bad period pain that would come and go. i only realised they were labour pains because i started timeing the pains when they were about 8 min apart and realised then as they got shorter that i was in labour. I was really confused because at antenatal classes they did the whole u will know when ur in labour, you will tell it is dif to braxton hicks.
also the day b4 all i could do was stay and sway, if i tried to sit it felt like bubs head was pokin out my bum lol.

[joey123]

i found releif when my mum pushed REALLY hard and in tiny circles on my lower back. you'll know where, cause it'll feel better when you find the spot. GL !!!

[SammyRo]

ditto with the bad period pain, but mine wouldn't hurt as much between contractions. I found being on my feet helped, DH rubbing my back, and then having the shower head aimed at my lower back.

[Vixstar]

They feel like really bad period pain in your back. The pain doesn't stop between contractions. It's a constant painful painful ache. All in your lower back. As labour progresses they can make it hard to move around. This is all from my experience of an 8 hour posterior labour with a full OP vaginal birth. I'm sure other people may have experienced them differently. Hope that helps why do you ask?

Same! Mine got that bad that when the actually contraction hit and the pain intensified, I would just about loose the strength in my legs. At one stage I was told to lay down *shock* and the pain was a million times worse and i kept trying to roll to one side. poor DH was having a tough time keeping me on the bed.

With DS#1 I got a lot of back pain and I would get down on all 4 to drop him forward...soemtimes it would be quick other times it would take ages to get him to move!

xxxx

[countrygal_83]

My last was a posterior baby. I had the lower back pain, more like a screwdriver being jammed right in my tail bone. It was fairly consistent and the ONLY thing that made me feel better was sitting on a birthing ball (gym ball) and rocking around and DH massaging my lower back. I tried on all 4s but having been awake for 23hrs I was too tired to do that for too long.

G'luck!