Pain in early labor is limited to which dermatomes?
In the early stages of labour pains are mainly uterine in origin because of painful uterine contractions It is distributed along the cutaneous nerve distribution of T10 - L 1. In the later stages pain is due to cervical dilatation This pain is referred to back through sacral plexus. Ref: Dutta Obs 9e pg 112.
T10 -L1
S1-S3
L4-L5
L2-L3
General obstetrics