Transition?

[MrsB26]

With ds i didnt know as i had an epi and was most probably sleeping! With DD i felt kinda weird and i didnt know what i wanted to do if that makes sense. I had lost control a bit and wasnt sure how to get it back - i kept saying that i had had enough and couldnt do it anymore etc etc - i clearly remember my middy and my sister both giggling and saying that the baby wasnt far off and i was 'in transition' lol - yep, started pushing and not long after she was born

[mbear]

Didnt know with my first...but the other 3 yes, defn knew when transition was. It was the time i moaned to Dh that i couldnt do this anymore, and that i thought it was time to go home.... A real panicky, wanna give up kinda of feeling......

[zap]

This post has really made me think and I diffently had a change in attitude! I demanded drugs hopped on the bed for the gas two pu*** later I had to start pushing!

[Sagres]

I totally missed it! In fact when my middie told me I was 10 cms I yelled at her 'why didn't anyone tell me I was in transition'
I think mostly I just didn't expect it to happen so quick, in hindsight I can remember the signs but at the time I wasn't expecting them only 2 hours in when I had been travelling fine until that point. I read lots of stories saying people just know when they are in transition and when to push but I just didn't, I totally didn't get the memo!

[Traveller]

For me transition was marked by vomiting, crying, and a general feeling of losing control. It was a wee bit more painful, but not remarkably so.

[MrsB26]

For me transition was marked by vomiting, crying, and a general feeling of losing control. It was a wee bit more painful, but not remarkably so.

Yes, the loss of control is what did it for me, the pain wasnt much greater - i just all of a sudden couldnt get it together

[kellynz]

I didn't feel any different, just kept on breathing through - when the mw told me i was 10cm and could push when i was ready i thought 'wow this is going to be great, he'll be here soon' then i didn't get any urge... kind of felt like maybe pushing so i tried... 4.5hrs later forceps helped him out of his posterior stuck position - ecck! Still awesome and beautiful tho
So looking forward to doing it myself next time

[DANNIIM]

DS1 i was really tuned into what was happening as it was a slower labour and i remember that they wouldn't give me anything for pain and i thought she was trying to con me type thing - i know that was transition and DS2 was so damn quick but i think it was when i felt out control with the pain next thing i know i went to the loo at middie request and my waters broke there and then the next minute i was in the hall way DH carrying me cos i was pushing out a baby with no middie in sight.

[Arcadia]

Signs for me in both births: Feeling hot, double contractions, or contractions that seemed to peak and then peak again, suddenly feeling annoyed at music/lights/anything, couldn't speak properly ie couldn't say what my brain was thinking...then feeling bowel pressure.

[~Gee_Whizzy~]

With DD1 i didn't think it was transition as id only been in labour for 5 hours (little did i know id be pushing for another 2 hours to get her out!) but i threw up and cried that i couldn't do it anymore and wanted to go home to bed with DD2 i knew it was transition because the exact same thing happened, i threw up and again cried that i couldn't do this anymore and wanted to go home to bed - i never got the double contractions, they were just really long and painful then nothing for about 2 mins then next thing i knew that immense bowl pressure was there and i was pushing!

[Mummato2]

Mine was distinct. I got to 7cms and the MW sat down and "warned" me about transition and how it's normal to feel like I'm losing control. I laughed and said matter of factly "yeah, but I'm choosing to not have a transition"

Bugger me if 10 minutes later the pain got worse and closer together and I lost it.........for 7 minutes at which point my DD was born

First baby was an induction with epi - so transition never ever happened

[trishalishous]

I dont remember, but I did have an "I cant do this" moment while pushing.

[berrme]

I was discussing this with my mum the other day. She couldn't remember transition. I completely missed it too. I guess I wasn't thinking about it at the time. Maybe it was when I realised that I was really going to birth my baby vaginally... I remember looking at DH and feeling a bit teary when it was time to push. But there was no break or obvious point where I felt out of control. Nothing like they describe in the textbooks on labour.