The urge to push - before you're ready?

[The[cookie]Doctor]

Hi Curly I can't answer your post exactly the way you're looking for but there was a fabulous post a while back by another member with an excerpt of an article about pushing for first time mother's. Obviously this will be your second bub but you might find it just as useful (I saw it after my bub was born and it was still fascinating - made me realise I wasn't crazy going through labour, I just wasn't as educated as I could have been).

The link is Pushing for first time mothers.

I had an internal at 10pm saying I was only 8cm but I was already "feeling the urge to push" well I wasn't yet ready... DS was born at 11pm in five pushes - that pushing feeling was entirely different - I could feel him actually moving. Don't know how much of this makes sense, but once I read that article a lot of my time in labour made sense to me!


ETA: A good caregiver will know when you are ready without that internal exam... I requested one when i "needed to push" and it was excruciating, horrible and one of the worst parts of my labour. But she knew when i really did need to push and totally let me go with the flow.