contraction pain

Just a random curious question

is contraction pain the same for everyone , not necessarily WHERE it is , but is contraction pain pretty much the same , or can it feel different from woman to woman ?

With C it felt like I was being squeezed and like someone was standing inside me , pulling the inside of my stomach .

what did yours feel like ?

my tummy went really hard and then i got the intense period pain...........are you feeling something kelly????

This time is was like someone had hold of the skin/muscles/everything in a line below my belly button & was ripping it apart. I had my hand on there to make sure it wasn't

last time it was nothing like that, backache pain & the contractions had a real rise & fall to them.

i had period pains but they came and went. They were exactly like having my period (though i have extremely painful periods). I remember saying to mum that its better than having my period cuz i get a break between them lol. Pain through my lower abdomen and lower back. But this only started after my waters had broken 6hours before so it wasnt how my labour started

Edited by angel4

I was induced and the first 7 hours or so was just period pain that got worse through the day. Then it changed to tight cramping in my lower tummy and back and it stayed like that until the broke my waters 19 hours later and within half an hour it hurt like a mother and no words can describe it. But I will try, kind of like something was ripping my stomach open from the inside and someone had tied ropes around my abodomen and was pulling as hard as they could to try and squeeze said thing out all at the same time.

Thinking back, the midwives must have been quietly laughing at me "practising" my breathing through those early contractions..

Man I hope I have one of those painless labours next time round!

Okay for me with M it went totally rock hard. The pain started out slow and then would intensify and then start to get easier again. It wasnt the same intensity straigh through but would peak and then go down again.

Me thought it was Braxton Hixt contractions as I didnt get it before. This time I am getting loads of Braxton Hixt contractions.

With M I also felt like a knive was being pushed from the inside through my pubic bones. However it was her head been presented wrong and the contractions trying to push her down and it was just not happening. That is why it landed up being an c-section.

I felt all the pain in my tailbone and just tightening of the tummy. Lauren was posterior so thats probably why I didn't get much pain in the belly department.

Pain in my back was so not what I was expecting labour would be like!! I still don't really "get" why I didn't feel much in my tummy

Sorry didn't really answer your question did I?! I think contractions would feel different from women to women I would imagine especially since we all have such differing pain tolerance levels. Just a thought anyway...

Edited by peachy

mine were different each time - cant remember the exact pain with #1 other than it was in my back and it hurt like a mother F!! from the get go, second time was all my tummy and waaaaay more bearable!!! (#1 and #2 i had all drugs inc epis) #3 was in front and back and i cant describe the pain! my legs shook like crazy when i had a contraction! i also had no pain releif for number 3!!