In the weeks leading up to the birth, the woman’s body relaxes certain hormones in the body and stimulates other hormones. The body reduces the production of progesterone and increases the secretion of prostaglandin and oxytocin. Prostaglandin works to relieve the cervix, while oxytocin activates the muscles of the uterus to contract, resulting in labor or labor.
Or labor
It is the successive uterine contractions that occur as a result of increased secretion of oxytocin. This hormone stimulates the uterus to contract in order to prepare for childbirth, and these contractions are consecutive, and initially be light and distant, but it becomes very close and very close at the last moments of birth, It causes pain known as pain or pain of labor.
Signs of occurrence occur
There are some signs that appear on the pregnant woman in the open phase and these signs are:
- A drop of water from the cervix, which is known as the water of the head, which comes down due to rupture of the amniotic sac located in the cervix, and may feel the woman distillation or flow when the descent of water. Pregnant women are concerned that the cyst ruptures outside the home or away from the hospital. However, a small proportion of women are torn by the amniotic sac before uterine contractions occur; often uterine contractions occur before the water descends, and the woman realizes that she has to go To the hospital in order to prepare for delivery.
- The occurrence of strong and consecutive uterine contractions: Pregnant women may find it difficult to differentiate between normal uterine contractions that occur during pregnancy, especially in the last months of pregnancy and uterine contractions of the uterus. But the doctors and specialists in gynecology and obstetrics say that the contractions that occur during pregnancy can be due to stress or hunger, and thus disappear after the disappearance of the cause of the occurrence, and the contractions of the open they occur continuously and continuously and increase in strength over time, At the moment of birth, the pain caused by the contractions of the leg is very strong, starting from the lower back and then moving down the abdomen.
- The mucus is removed from the mucous membrane. It is a group of thick cervical mucus that closed the cervix during the nine months, ie throughout the pregnancy, in order to protect the uterus from infection from the inside of the body.
- In the early stages of labor, diarrhea may occur in pregnant women. This is due to the secretion of hormones such as hormones such as prostaglandins and oxytocin. Other symptoms of such hormones are diarrhea in the pregnant woman’s body.
- The expansion of the cervix, and may begin a few centimeters, and then expand further and the greater the expansion of uterine contractions and increased pains of the open, and disappear contractions as soon as the child.