Baby #4 due quite soon.
With DC3's labour I started to feel quite 'nudgy' during contractions at about 4cm dilated. I dilated to 10cm within about 2 hours but during those 2 hours I couldn't help myself strongly bearing down during contractions. The midwife kept telling me to breathe through it but the gentle pushing was the only way to ease the pain, and also there was a lot of pressure and it just felt like the natural thing to do. I ended up pushing as quietly and secretively as possible so that the midwife thought I was breathing through the pain.
I was just wondering really if it is that bad to push if you feel you need to before the magic 10cm? From talking to friends, I know that it's fairly common to feel a lot of pressure and to want to push earlier than that.
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How early in labour did you feel like pushing?
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orlandobroom · 26/08/2014 23:12
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