labor pain
Delivery room agony
Labor pain is the physical discomfort and cramping a woman experiences during childbirth, caused by uterine contractions and the dilation of the cervix.
Usually plural: The labor pains started around midnight.
The intensity typically increases as delivery approaches.
Figuratively, labor pains can describe the difficult early stages of any creative or organizational effort: the labor pains of a new democracy.
- childbirthInfant's emergence from womb
- contractionsShortened word forms
- contraction timerDevice timing labor intervals
- crowningInstalling as monarch
- deliveryConveyance of goods
parturition · uterine contractions · transition phase · birth pangs · ache · epidural · hurting · ring of fire · cervix dilation · effacement · birth trauma · epidural anesthesia · cesarean · back · baby · moaning · breathe · breathing exercises
- painache, agony, hurt, hurting, suffering
- body painache, aches, pang, throb, soreness
- hurtsaches, burns, cuts, wounds, injures
- childbirthcontractions, pushing, dilation, birth, crowning
- pregnancy worriesmiscarriage, birth defects, complications, preeclampsia, stillbirth
- pelvic conditionsPID, endometritis, pelvic fracture, endometriosis, ovarian cysts
labor paincomfort
Ease or soothing relief
relief · painlessness · numbness · euphoria · bliss
labor painmenstrual cramps
Painful uterine contractions during menstruation
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