Hello wise women,

Have any of you had baaaaad cramps, and how did this affect your management of labour? If you ahve awful cramps, are you more lilely to have a shocking labour?

I get awful pain when not on pill. If I don't very, very quickly take some form of heavy-duty painkiller (generally of the sort you can't take when pregnant, which is going to make each and every 2WW absolutely revolting) at the first sign of a twinge I get the most incredible cramping, tearing, burning, waves of lower back and abdo pain, start to vomit and get diahorrhoea uncontrollably (bringing up the pain relief if I haven't taken it quickly enough) and almost start to make moaning cow-like noises. It is so intense I nearly lose consciousness. I don't know if I had sufficiently express how bad it is; I'm careful where I am and what I do each 28 days or so, so I don't end up a spewin' pooin' mooin' wreck in public... (No, I do not have cysts or endo.)

How much worse can labour be? I'm scared that if if one hour of seriously period pain is enough to flip me out, how the hell am I going to cope with labour??

Thanx

PS: what is this dreaded "back labour"?