Signs Of Laboring

Women should know about their labor signs to get to hospital in time.

If fetuses are around 38^th to 40^th weeks and you find some symptoms, such as: uterine contractions, the vagina discharge red fluid, urinal gleaning, water breaking…, you should hospitalize and wait for the labor. However, everyone has different signs of labor.

Women should know about labors signs.

1.     Vagina discharge water and grey fluid

About 24 hours before labor, pregnant women’s vaginas usually excrete pink fluid which belong to blood or suddenly pour out yellow water. The red blood is due to the fact that the uterine endothelia in the last week of pregnancy, secretes prostatic pigment, the placemen secretes female hormones and progestogen. The grown uterus is opened, which leads to the fact that the mucus flow out through the cervix and the fetal membrane which is near to the cervix is cut from the uterine wall and causes small blood vessels bursting. The mucus usually has little blood in it, has coffee color, pink or magenta. This is one of popular signs that announce the labor. At that time, the uterus is open, so it’s easily infected with bacteria from the outside. Pregnant women should take good care of the hygiene to prevent infection.

2.     The urination increases and the uterus has multiple contractions

For people who are having babies for the first time, in 2 weeks before labor, the fetus’s head will turn down to create good condition for the fetus to go out, so it makes some pressures on the bladder, which increase urination and cause walking problem. The intermittent pains of the abdomen appear and the increase of uterine contractions will make pregnant women suffer severe pain and just want to urinate. Till then, pregnant women should be hospitalized to take examinations.

3.     Back and waist pains, leg Oedema

The heads of fetuses are pressed down and so are the nervous systems can lead to leg’s discomfort, Oedema, spinal muscular contractions, waist pain… The symptoms also signal the labor.     

There’re many signs promise labor.

4.     Intermittent pains from abdomen

The fetus is old enough and you often feel pains from the low abdominal area or back fatigue. It’ll be ok if the pains happen successively and irregularly. In that case, you just need to take a rest and wait till the pains stop. That’s because it’s a fake travail. But, if the pains don’t go after resting and tend to get worse, it’s a real travail.

5.     Early water breaking

Early water breaking happens when the membrane soon rupture before getting labor.

Early water breaking happens when the membrane soon rupture before getting labor. Before giving birth, if the vagina pours out a great amount of water like when you can’t control the urination, it means your water is broke. That symptom is very dangerous to the fetus’s life, so pregnant women need hospitalizing untimely.

Besides, if pregnant women find that fetuses are in the wrong position, specifically at the opposite side, or have symptoms like headache, breast pain, discomfort, vaginal bleeds without pain, marrow pelvis, history of fetal suffocation, having heart or liver diseases…, you should get hospitalized soon to be ready to give birth and avoid uncertainties.