This may sound stupid but...?

Question

This may sound stupid but what do contractions feel like? I'm afraid that I don't know. I'm 38 weeks along and feel what I think have been some irregular contractions, but at my doctors appointment yesterday they said I wasn't dilated anymore. I thought that if those were contractions I was feeling that I would have been dilated further. What I feel is like a tightening in my abdomen and sometimes it includes a little bit of back pain, but it seems like this only happens when the baby is moving . So is this just my baby causing some pain when he moves or is it a contraction. I don't know, this is my first baby. I have heard so many women describe what they feel like differently, I'm afraid I won't know when I'm in labor. Thanks

Answer 1

i was like you, very worried but when i was in labour somehow i just knew. mine felt like a band of light pain round my lower back and bad period pain in the lower stomach. also felt like someone put a band around my stomach and kept tightening it.

Nothing i couldn't handle though.

Congratulations by the way

Answer 2

sounds like you'v been having braxton hicks contractions - basically, they're practice contractions. Real contractions will be like that, but will get increasingly painful and more regular.

good luck

Answer 3

you will no when your in full labor trust me. its a feeling like no other, and its very strong. i was same as you when i was pregnant, but when labor came i knew it for sure, it made all the other pains id had seem like nothing.

Answer 4

I totally agree with the first answerer! It may happen, because your body is kinda training and preparing itself for a great work in the future, so you may feel irregular contractions time to time. That doesn't mean you are going in labor soon, in truth this is some sort of a preparation process for many females. Labor means you have contractions that are increasing in duration and number of times per hour, when it becomes regular and longer you may say you are in labor and the main process started.

For your own information read this article: http://www.babycenter.in/pregnancy/anten...

Good luck to you!

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