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2+ moms...describe a contraction...
What does the pain feel like? I just had a weird cramp feeling, like when you drink a lot of water and then run or walk fast kind of cramp but it went away, my stomach also tightened up.
Married my best friend 5/2/2008
TTC our first miracle since November 2010
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Re: 2+ moms...describe a contraction...
Basically, this. By the time labor progresses to the point that you'd start considering calling your doctor or going to the hospital, it'll definitely be obvious that you're having contractions.
An all over tightening of the stomach...like a BH but it's more intense and it comes on faster.
I had back labor, so if you get that, throw in an a very intense (painful) radiating back pain with every contraction. The pain moves around your waste from your lower spine to your abdomen and vice versa.
With my first, the pain was all in my hips as the baby lowered. It was like my hips hadn't expanded the entire time I was pregnant and someone was trying to pull them apart with a crowbar. But I was 17 and skinny and he was over 9 lbs. Every baby since has been a breeze. When they ask my pain level 1-10 during labor, I'm never over an eight after that first one.
I had gall stones when I was pregnant with my twins and that pain was way more intense than labor.
mild, fun, oo I'm going into labor contractions- are a tightening of the belly - you can actually watch your belly go from a hill to more of a mountain foundation from the sides of your belly tightening up.
OH MY GOD GET THIS BABy OUT OF MEEEEEEEE contractions - the worst super constipated partially stuck bm.... like times 100.... other people get these, right?