Back Labor

During childbirth, many women commonly complain about back labor. Back labor is when you have aggravated and more pain and pressure in your lower back around your waistline than anywhere else. If you have ever had a bad kidney infection, you may have felt this type of pain.

What causes Back Labor?

The cervix dilating and effacing and possibly the pressure of the fetus on the tailbone causes back labor. When the uterus contracts in the early stages of labor, the pain may be a radiating pain. This pain may radiate from the front to the back (more common) or from the back to the front. If you had the type of radiating pain from the front to the back, you are more likely to have back labor during the active or transitional phase of labor.

Description of Back Labor:

At first you may have feel an easing up pain (think of an elevator rising to the top floor), and then as labor progresses, the pain is very sudden and quick. Now the pain feels more constant and you are less able to locate a specific area of pain, but rather the whole waistline of the back and abdomen are in pain.
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