I was induced by artificial water breaking, which should be more painful than natural production, because medication must make contractions reach a certain level before it can be effective. Before that, I had been on oxytocin for four days, but I didn't respond at all. I was still thinking of giving birth to the baby without pain. After breaking the water, I still didn't respond when I continued to induce labor. I could also laugh and play with my mobile phone. After about two hours of urging, I felt a response. At that time, it was time for lunch. I had a good appetite, but I was not as energetic as before. My stomach was as painful as when I came to menstruation. I curled up in a hospital bed for a while. With the increase of oxytocin dosage, my stomach became more and more painful, and I began to roll and called the nurse to stop oxytocin, but the contractions did not reach, so the nurse ignored me and had no choice but to endure. The pain continued, and the interval became shorter and shorter, and it became more and more painful. My husband held my hand, and once I pushed him to the ground, and several times I bit his hand. By dinner time, the induced labor stopped, and the palace was full of eloquence. During this time, I didn't eat or drink, because the pain was far greater than the feeling of hunger and thirst. At 9 o'clock, I went to the delivery room to prepare for the birth. When I entered the delivery room, the uterine contraction pain only increased, but it would not be alleviated. From three fingers to ten fingers, I still drive very fast, about an hour, but the darkest pain is when I have to give birth after ten fingers. Because I can't exert myself, I can't give birth slowly, but the frequency of contractions is not decreasing. I am at a loss for the pain. I rolled up while my husband and midwife were not paying attention. Although the midwife kept reminding me that it would be dangerous to touch the baby at this time, I really couldn't take care of it. For the first time, I understood what pain meant. This time, the labor pains passed, and the fetal heart monitoring instrument stopped moving. The midwife judged that the baby had slight asphyxia, called the doctor for lateral incision, shortened the labor process, and finally gave birth after about forty minutes. At that time, my voice was almost hoarse. After half a year, I felt a shiver when I mentioned having a baby. I really don't want to experience that kind of pain again.
I believe that most people who have experienced childbirth will never forget the pain of giving birth. Some women are in pain when giving birth, and even have the idea of jumping off a building. It can be seen that the pain level of childbirth is definitely not low.
I have given birth to two children. To be honest, when I gave birth to my first baby, I swore that I would never have children again, because the pain really made people feel that life was worse than death. After being pregnant with a second child, I was afraid of delivery almost every day. Sure enough, the pain of having a second child was even worse than that of the first child. Even though it has been several years, I still have a lingering fear when I think about it occasionally.
There are six levels of pain, namely:
In short, labor pain is indeed a high-grade pain, but its duration is relatively not too long. I believe that most expectant mothers should be able to tolerate it for the safe birth of their children.
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Is labor pain the highest pain?
The pain of natural labor is equivalent to the pain of 10 ribs breaking at the same time, and it lasts for more than ten hours or days. Can you bear it? So sometimes it's not just being a mother, but having to be rigid, because no one can bear the pain of giving birth for you.
Many men may not be able to bear this pain. There is an instrument that allows men to feel the pain of childbirth. Some electrode pads are attached to men's abdomen, and the pain level is gradually increased, from about 3-level pain from being pricked by needles to 12-level pain during childbirth.
I believe many men have experienced it, but few men can persist. Even if they persist to 12 level, it is impossible to stay in this pain area for a long time.
However, a woman's childbirth is a long process, sometimes several hours or even longer, and she experiences the pain of 12 without interruption.
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How is pain graded?
Pain is a subjective feeling of people, because people are covered with a kind of sensory nerve endings called pain receptors. We are afraid of pain, but at the same time we also need pain to warn of danger, and we have to grade it.
As for the classification of pain, it is rumored that it is divided into 12 grades. The first grade is like mosquito bite, and the second grade is like the feeling of a woman during childbirth.
At present, the simplest and commonly used grading method in China medical field is NRS digital grading method, that is, subjective grading method, which is divided into ten numbers: 0- 10. 0 means no pain, and 10 means that the other person thinks it hurts the most, so ask the other person which number is the pain now.
The corresponding level of pain encountered in reality:
We can see that each kind of pain can find a corresponding digital grade, and the delivery situation is special. The discomfort in the early stage of delivery only reaches 2 ~ 3 grades, and when the contractions become more and more serious, the pain grade will also reach 7 ~10 grades. Therefore, for women, both of them belong to the most unbearable pain.
Moreover, women's childbirth is a pain that lasts for about ten hours, fatigue and nausea coexist, especially the process of waiting for the cervix to open to 10 finger, which is very painful. That burst of screaming from the delivery room is the best proof.
I once saw a picture on the Internet describing the opening of a woman's cervix. The British midwife carved ten pumpkins to show the size of the opening of a woman's cervix during childbirth. It turns out that the legendary "open fingers" is so big. No wonder it hurts so much to have a baby.
It hurts so much to have a natural birth. How can we relieve this painful pain?
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How to relieve the pain of natural labor?
1. Painless delivery: Painless delivery is undoubtedly a proper gospel for pregnant women. Although painless delivery can't completely eliminate the pain, it can at least relieve some of the pain and let the mother give birth to the baby unconsciously. Generally speaking, as long as it can relieve about 70% of the pain, it is already very ideal.
It's a pity that I didn't have the chance to have a painless delivery at the beginning, which was a lot worse. If I have the chance to have a second child, I must choose a painless delivery.
2. Family accompanying the delivery: I saw a news before that a man was dancing in the delivery room. In the video, the man was dancing in the delivery room, with a beautiful dance and an exaggerated and funny expression, which made people laugh. The man's move is to divert the attention of the expectant wife and relieve the pain of childbirth. Can such a husband give me a dozen?
Many women struggle in the delivery room alone, which is lonely, anxious and insecure. If the husband can give his wife some help, support and encouragement, I believe that his wife's good mood will also speed up the labor process and give birth smoothly.
3. Lamaze Breathing: This Amway is not an exaggeration for a hundred times, and I am the biggest beneficiary of Lamaze Breathing. I think this is the gospel of maternity.
Lamaze breathing is a classic midwifery method in obstetrics. It can relax the mood and relieve the pain by adjusting breathing and doing midwifery gymnastics, so that the parturient can turn his attention to the control of breathing.
Mothers who have mastered breathing skills can soothe the whole body, keep calm and be more confident, so that their babies can be born safely and quickly.
4. Doula delivery: Doula delivery is a mode of women's delivery advocated by the international field of obstetrics and gynecology at present. Its characteristic is that during the whole process of maternal delivery, a caring, kind-hearted, understanding and knowledgeable woman is always with her, and this accompanying woman is called "Doula".
"Doula" provides continuous psychological, physiological and emotional support to the delivery mother throughout the labor process, helping the delivery mother to tide over the difficulties in childbirth.
5. Underwater delivery: Underwater delivery is actually a painless delivery method. Maternal children will go through the first stage of labor, the second stage of labor, the third stage of labor and the follow-up process. Water delivery can help shorten the first stage of labor and relieve maternal pain.
But at present, the safety of underwater delivery has not been confirmed, so this method has not been popularized in China.
6. Prenatal yoga exercise: Do exercises, such as sitting on a yoga ball, stepping on a horse, sitting cross-legged, and do exercises that are conducive to natural delivery according to your actual situation. You can search online for sports videos that are helpful for natural delivery.
7. Weight control: Don't think that giving birth to a child is a hard work. The fatter you eat, the better. Remember that your fetus is growing at the same time. If the fetus is too big, it will be very unfavorable for you to give birth naturally.
Therefore, during pregnancy, it is necessary to carry out reasonable nutrition, avoid overeating, control your weight, and avoid the fetus being too large, which can alleviate the difficulty of delivery to a certain extent.
Conclusion: In a word, natural delivery is really a big difficulty in a woman's life. Therefore, if you can choose painless and other ways to relieve your pain, your mother must choose by herself. Modern medicine is so developed, so don't suffer those unnecessary pains any more.
Labor pains refer to the pains that expectant mothers need to experience during the natural delivery. The most difficult and terrible thing is actually the first stage of labor. If the pain is measured by 1- 10, then the peak of uterine contraction pain can be as high as 10, which is the highest level. The pain is equivalent to breaking 20 ribs at the same time, which is really heartbreaking.
Although the labor pains reach 10, not the whole labor process is under extreme pain. According to the different stages of labor, uterine pain can be divided into three stages:
1. Mild pain.
When the cervix is open 1-3 fingers, the parturient will feel abdominal tightness and slight uterine contraction pain. When the contractions become more and more obvious and even regular, the parturient will feel backache and abdominal pain, but it is almost the same as dysmenorrhea, and it is barely tolerable.
2. Moderate pain.
When the cervix is opened for 4-6 fingers, the parturient will feel extremely sore waist, unbearable abdominal pain and unable to sleep.
3. Severe pain.
Severe pain is the hardest stage for the parturient. Although it will not take a long time, the parturient will feel that time passes slowly and the body suffers because of the strong pain.
When the cervix is 7- 10 finger open, the uterine contractions become more and more intensive, the intensity of uterine contractions becomes higher and higher, and the labor pains last longer and longer. The maternal's feelings will change from more and more painful uterine contractions, and the abdomen will have a strong feeling of heaving and severe pain, and then it will be painful and fall into a state of collapse and despair.
The first stage of labor takes the longest time, 6- 12 hours. Some parturients have a slow uterine opening, and it takes several days to enter the delivery room for labor. During this stage of labor, the parturient needs to experience the pain of 1- 10, because the pain is gradually increasing, so the maternal body can gradually adapt, and it is not so terrible.
The second stage of labor is fetal delivery.
If the parturient cooperates with the doctor in this labor process, the labor process will be smooth, and the baby can be born in 1-2 hours. The only possibility is tearing pain, but if the parturient does not blindly exert excessive force, the laceration can be reduced or avoided.
The third stage of labor is the delivery of placenta.
This labor process takes the shortest time, and the parturient is the easiest. When the placenta is delivered, the parturient will not feel pain, unless the placenta has residue and needs to be removed manually, so that the parturient will feel pain.
A few years ago, Justin Schmidt, an American entomologist, made a desperate attempt to find 85 species of HYMENOPTERA insects to sting himself and rated four pain levels. For this reason, he put forward a "Schmidt pain index" to measure the pain degree of being stung by insects. Schmidt also won the Ig Nobel Prize in 20 15 years.
And a set of the most popular pain grading method-digital grading method (NRS) is similar. This method divides the pain into 10 grades, and the number increases step by step from small to large. Each kind of pain can find the corresponding numerical grade, for example, egg pain belongs to the severe pain of 7 ~10. The situation of delivery is special, the discomfort in the early stage of delivery only reaches 2 ~ 3 grades of pain, and when the contraction becomes more and more serious, the pain grade will also reach 7 ~10 grades. In addition, trigeminal neuralgia and cancerous pain caused by nerve compression by advanced tumors are also in the ranks of 10 pain.
But even with the theoretical data, it is still impossible to tell which one wins or loses. In fact, from another angle, you don't have to care which is more painful, egg pain or childbirth pain, because it is almost impossible for the same person to experience egg pain and childbirth pain at the same time, and different people have different subjective pains, so the two are not comparable. Importantly, both belong to the highest level of pain.
The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies pain into:
O degree: no pain;
I degree: mild pain, intermittent pain, no medication;
Degree II: moderate pain, persistent pain, affecting rest and needing painkillers;
Degree III: Severe pain, persistent pain, which can be relieved without drugs;
Degree IV: Severe pain, accompanied by persistent pain in blood pressure and changes in pulse.
Pain 12:
1, unnoticed pain, such as mosquito bites.
2. The pain just noticed, such as anesthesia, is ready for surgery.
3, very mild pain, scratched by a knife.
4, mild pain, such as slapping with the palm of your hand.
5, mild pain, such as hitting the door or being caught by the door.
6, moderate pain, such as gastroenteritis caused by unclean diet, stomach pain.
7. Strong pain, such as being beaten with a stick.
8, severe pain, such as female dysmenorrhea.
9. Very intense pain, such as neck and shoulder pain and neuralgia.
10, severe pain, such as finger being cut off.
1 1, extremely severe pain, such as visceral pain such as appendicitis.
12, unbearable pain, such as pain during childbirth.
Digital grading method is mainly based on people's subjective experience of pain or the description understood by medical staff, which is subjective. Besides, is there any other more scientific pain grading method?
In fact, pain itself is a subjective personal feeling, and different people and different body parts of the same person may have different pain experiences. Emotional changes can also cause different feelings of pain.
When digital grading is the mainstream pain grading method, there are actually other grading methods.
There is a pain grading method (VRS) based on the chief complaint, which advocates that the pain degree is divided into five levels according to the degree of influence of pain on the quality of life. Painless, as the name implies, means no pain; Although patients with mild pain feel pain, it will not affect their sleep; The pain of patients with moderate pain has affected their sleep, but they can still fall asleep naturally; Patients with severe pain can't sleep because of pain, or they will wake up from sleep; Patients with severe pain have reached the realm of life than death.
Many women have a deep memory of the pain during delivery. Usually, after giving birth to a baby, the most common sentence is that they won't have another baby and don't want to experience such pain again. From the words of mothers, we can clearly feel that the pain of natural childbirth is really something that women don't want to go through all their lives, and it may be the highest level of pain they have experienced in this life.
The pain during childbirth varies from person to person, and some mothers are more tolerant of pain, and the pain during childbirth is acceptable and will not reach the highest level; Some mothers are sensitive, and even pricking their fingers will make them cry, so the pain of childbirth is really the highest level of pain.
In fact, the most painful thing during childbirth is the first stage of labor. At this time, the cervix is gradually expanding and the contractions are getting tighter every time, but only in this way can the cervix be opened smoothly. When the second stage of labor begins, the pain of uterine contraction will be weakened, and the emergence of a sense of convenience will be ushered in. At this time, mothers will have the strength to have children.
After the baby is born, almost all the pain will disappear. With the delivery of the placenta, mothers can relax and go back to the ward to rest.
I don't think expectant mothers who are about to give birth should pay attention to this aspect. Everyone has different sensitivity to pain. Don't use the pain that hasn't appeared on themselves casually, which will not help the future delivery.
You should know that the whole delivery process is about 12 hours, and the time it takes for the fetus to be born is about 2 hours. Although the pain in such a short time may reach the highest level, it is physiological pain, not the pain when you are injured, which is completely tolerable. Think more about the baby, think more about the happy days in the future, and divert your attention, and the pain will naturally be relieved.
Whether labor pain is the highest level of pain is actually controversial!
At present, the most popular pain grading method is digital grading method (NRS). The digital grading method divides the pain into 10 grades. In the early stage of production, the pain of pregnant women is slightly painful or slightly painful at grade 2-3, and when the contractions become more and more serious, the pain grade will reach grade 7- 10. The burning pain and kidney calculi's colic are even higher than the labor pain.
In addition to digital grading, there is also degree grading (VRS), which is based on the impact of pain on life. 1 level is painless, and mild pain of level 2 does not affect sleep; Grade 3 moderate pain affects sleep but can fall asleep; Grade 4 severe pain can't sleep or be awakened by pain, while grade 5 severe pain is an experience that life is worse than death.
In addition, there are pain grades according to expressions. According to the facial expression state of patients when they are in pain, it is judged whether the pain grade of patients is painless, slight pain, mild pain, severe pain, severe pain or the most painful. In addition, there are four-level pain classification methods classified by WTO, visual analogue scale and other exquisite pain classification methods.
These dazzling pain grading methods are not to compare who suffers the highest level of pain. On the one hand, it is to remind patients that they must be treated or treated in time. On the other hand, it is also to help patients choose painkillers in a targeted manner.
The World Health Organization classifies pain into five levels:
0 degrees: no pain
1 degree: mild pain, intermittent pain, without medication;
2 degrees: moderate pain, which is persistent and affects rest, and needs to be relieved with painkillers;
3 degrees: severe pain, which is persistent and cannot be relieved without medication;
Degree 4: Severe pain, which is persistent and accompanied by changes in blood pressure and pulse.
Everyone has a different pain. Although the labor pain is 4 degrees, I gave birth before I had time to feel painless. During the contraction, it was similar to dysmenorrhea from mild to the most painful, and it was a little painful to tremble all over, but it was ok. Or according to their own situation!
According to 0~ 10, the degree of pain was graded:
0 is painless
0 to 3 is mild pain.
Reaching 4 will affect sleep, and 4 to 6 will be moderate pain.
You can't sleep when you reach 7.
More than 7 is severe pain.
10 is a severe pain.
Realistic pain
Puncture the back of the hand with a needle and clap hard, about 1~3;
Hair pulled, awl stabbing thigh, less than or equal to level 4;
Knife cut to hand, soft tissue contusion, sprain, etc., about 4~7 grades;
At the time of delivery, the persistent pain in the early stage is 2~3, and when the contraction is the worst, it reaches 7~8;
Third-degree burn, severe lumbar disc herniation, severe vascular headache, migraine, grade 8~9;
Trigeminal neuralgia, neuralgia caused by herpes zoster, cancerous pain caused by nerve compression caused by advanced tumor, etc., 10 grade.
Is labor pain really the highest level of pain? How is the pain graded?
It is said that the pain of giving birth is like twenty broken ribs at the same time, and that feeling can only be felt by pregnant mothers who have experienced it. However, pregnancy and childbirth is a physiological process that every pregnant mother must go through. In fact, women's childbirth is like going to the battlefield and going to the gate of hell. When they come back victorious, they will remember it vividly and never forget it. Although the pain of giving birth to a child is the highest level, it almost disappeared when I saw that I was pregnant in October and fought for the lovely baby I gave birth to.
So, what is the pain level of pregnant women during childbirth? Generally, childbirth is divided into three stages, and the pain in each stage is different. Every pregnant mother has different constitutions and different endurance.
In the first stage, the parturient begins to feel uterine contractions every 10 minute until the uterus is fully opened 10 cm in diameter. At this stage, primipara usually feels about10 ~12 hours. The multipara lasts about 6 ~ 8 hours. The pain in this period is about 7 ~ 8. Although it is painful, the pregnant mother can't exert herself at this stage, and slowly take a deep breath during the labor pains to alleviate the pain.
In the second stage, from the full opening of the uterus to the delivery of the fetus, it usually takes 2 ~ 3 hours for primipara and 1 hour for multipara. At this time, the pain is the highest, almost reaching the level of 9 ~10. Pregnant mothers should not forget to cooperate with the doctor because of pain, but should cooperate with the doctor to breathe and exert strength, thus shortening the labor process and reducing the pain.
In the third stage, the fetus has been delivered, and the rest is the delivery of the placenta. It usually takes 20 ~ 30 minutes for primipara and10 ~ 20 minutes for multipara. At this time, the pain gradually decreased, and there was no pain in the previous two stages. It's just a slight pain after cutting the umbilical cord, and the placenta is delivered with a little force.
In fact, the process of childbirth is a process of squeezing the fetus out of the mother's uterus and vagina, but this process requires the perseverance of the pregnant mother and the power of pushing. The driving force of this contraction is contractions, which is a process of helping the baby rush out of the mother's birth canal. At this time, Bao Ma will feel very painful, but as long as she persists and cooperates with the doctor, she will pass the birth smoothly. Be careful not to be nervous, relax, and increase your confidence. Every pregnant mother can get through this difficulty smoothly!
Finally, I wish you all the best!