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Back labor is where the contractions are literally in your lower back versus your stomach. I had both

I didn't feel a single contraction in my stomach, they were all in my lower back and wrapped to my hips. It felt like my back was being smashed with a sledgehammer every few minutes. I was in agony when I had to lie on my back. The only time I cried out/cursed during my labor was when I had to lie on my back to get one last quick check the position of the baby's head U/S while they were admitting me. It was excruciating.

ETA: It (usually) happens when the baby is "sunny-side up" facing up towards mom's stomach.

I had seriously bad back labor...a med-free birth with a sunny side up baby. i had to be on some serious oxygen because i literally couldn't breathe the back pain is so bad and indescribable!

I had an induction without an epidural and back labor. It was terrible. Dh and my mum had to take turns massaging my lower back for 10 hours straight because the counter-pressure seemed to help me cope better. I spent about an hour near the end of my labor lying on my left side getting Lo to turn (which she luckily did) I would never wish back labor on anyone. I could feel the contractions in my stomach but the pain was all in my back.