what did your first contraction feel like

delwynne · March 2013

so second/third time mums, how did ur very first contraction feel? did u even realise it was more than likely the start of labor?

nyki06 · March 2013

They started off as just non painful tightening and then slowly progressed into more regular uncomfortable tightening and then turned painful.

melisgood · March 2013

When I went into labor, I was vomiting and had diarrhea (sorry if TMI). Then contractions were just tightening and then pain that wrapped around my lower back and radiated down my groin/thighs (I was having back back labor).

Murraydog · March 2013

I woke up in the middle of the night like normal to go to the bathroom. I had what felt like period cramps/poop cramps. Couldn't really tell. Actually had some mild diarrhea and when I went back to bed noticed that there was a pattern to the cramping. They progressed from there.

elle980 · March 2013

Mine started off as period like cramps that gradually continued to get worse.

BrittKav · March 2013

They felt just like braxton hicks for hours until they started coming 2-3 minutes apart, then a few of them were more uncomfortable. I didn't think I was really in labor until I was checked and I was 6 cm.

crunchymnm · March 2013

With DS ALL of mine were in my hips and back, so it felt like everything there tightening up which was generally painful and I KNEW they were contractions. But I had them nearly every evening after doing the deed (doctor prescribed method of getting baby moving haha) for about a week until they finally got to the point of timeable and not going away enough for me to go to L&D and I was then in fact in labor.

wren444 · March 2013

elle980:
Mine started off as period like cramps that gradually continued to get worse.

This...but know that's just the warm up...when they knocked my socks off/took my breathe away is when they started being productive. If I had known better what to expect, I would have tried harder to sleep/rest when they were mild because it lasted for 24 hours+ like that...I got way too excited about those early contractions and was sooo exhausted by the time I actually started having the effective ones that I almost couldn't deal.

shibby00 · March 2013

They felt like gas. I was getting really ticked that the gas x wasn't working until I realized the pain would come and go, lol.

~Kat~ · March 2013

Mine felt like period cramps that came and went suddenly.

virginiagirl11 · March 2013

I started losing my MP a couple of days before labor started, plus I was past my due date, so I knew labor was pretty imminent. My contractions started at like 10am on a Sunday and were just period crampy-type things for a while. Very manageable. They started to get worse about 12-14 hours later. We left for the hospital when I was gripping countertops and gasping from the pain and they were a few min apart. Even then, I only turned out to be about 3cm dilated, but I had to get the GBS meds so I wanted to allow plenty of time.

duffmaker · March 2013

Hahaha I thought I had to take a poop (I get really bad IBS cramps) for the first hour until I was like ummm wait a second these make a pattern... yeah I was that dumbass.

They started off just being very uncomfortable, like I had really bad IBS cramps then they got stronger and closer together and I felt very nauseous too.

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