3rd Trimester
mejane123
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Do contractions feel like...
mejane123
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Repeated painful pulsing for a minute or so, then they stop and start up again? Or are they usually one solid/steady pain for a minute or so, then stop?
I've been contractiony and in some pretty steady (not unbearable) pain all day, and I'm feeling the LO moving around lower than I've ever felt (right above my pubic bone). I'm only 39 weeks, so I'm thinking it's probably not labor. But is this what I should expect?
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Re: Do contractions feel like...
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Have you seen what contractions look like on a printout? Where they kind of look like waves? Imagine the tightening of the uterus coming on, and it builds and builds until it peaks for almost a minute, then the uterus gradually relaxes. To me, it felt like a charlie horse in my pelvis when I was in labor with DD, with the peaks sometimes happening twice during one contraction. Whereas with BH contrax you feel your whole uterus tighten (maybe painful, maybe not), labor contractions are centered in your pelvis, or start off in your lower back and wrap around to the front or, in back labor, be all in the lower back.
Oh, and unlike BH these are timeable and last longer than a minute, and they intensify/don't stop when changing positions, laying down, walking, etc.