When labor starts?

There are many causes that are involved in the onset of labor ; throughout pregnancy, women suffer physiological changes that are preparing for that moment, and become more evident in recent weeks. What I can notice in recent weeks before delivery?

In the last period of pregnancy women experience a decrease abdomen, indirect sign of engagement of the fetus, by relieving the pressure produced in ribs and stomach, and feeling a greater weight in the lower region of the pelvis; this causes the woman is still empty the bladder more frequently.

Throughout these weeks, contractions that was already feeling will intensify and increase their frequency. The patient is probably more tired than the previous weeks, the unrest generated by intermittent pain of contractions, sometimes even impossible, the nightly rest .

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What day will be born?

See here some key dates and the probable date of birth.

How will I know I'm in labor?

Almost all women are uneasy not knowing exactly when are initiating labor and when to go to hospital. A first sign is the bloody show that has been forming in the cervix during those nine months; removal of the cap does not imply an impending birth, but a preparation of the way towards it. You may eject to eject the plug something dark, even some bloody; It should not panic, as this is absolutely normal. It is likely to suffer further then followed and more intense contractions and whose sole purpose is to modify the cervix to start delivery.

The mother will be familiar with contractions during pregnancy and know distinguish them from any other pain, to see how your belly hardens and then returns to its normal situation.

Labor contractions must have special characteristics of regularity in time, that is, two or three of considerable intensity contractions every 10 minutes.

When I go to the hospital?

As we saw in the previous section, the woman must assume that labor is 2 or 3 when suffering major contractions intensity every ten minutes, but we must warn the mother that there are cases where even not having contractions of these features you must go to the hospital. These situations are:

In any case, if you have any questions or problems, think there will always be a team willing to deal with it.

• If you think you have broken the bag, that is, if he receives involuntary loss of liquid and does not relate to the urine. This means that it has broken the amniotic sac surrounding the fetus, which is popularly known as "water breaking".
• If you have started to bleed as if he had the rule.
• If your obstetrician had informed him that will be practiced one cesarean for this pregnancy, and deadlines have been met.
• If you stop feeling fetal movement.
• If you are in poor general condition or fever with no apparent cause.
• If you have a constant and painful contraction unyielding.
• If you have a history of very fast delivery.

What factors should be taken to say that I'm in labor?

Arriving at the hospital or the place where you go to give birth, the obstetrician or midwife will explore and observe the state of the cervix, and recorded in the frequency and intensity of contractions. They also checked the welfare of the fetus.

They communicate in labor when they observe regular, moderate-intensity contractions and the cervix has changed, becoming soft consistency, focusing respect to the vagina and erasing its thickness. He is currently in labor.