I have a good friend that is soon to go into labor with her first child. Feeling some pangs of anxiety of the impending pain (and of course knowing that I am no expert and that everyone’s experience is different), she e-mailed me with questions concerning my experience with labor… here is one exchange:
How do you know when contractions are happening? I think I have felt them before but once labor has started is it noticable?
I had Braxton Hicks for more than a month before having Zach. They are different. Labor contractions feel like bad period cramps (that get worse and worse). I had back labor so I felt them in a ring around my pelvis rather than just in front. You might question them when they first start but you will soon figure out that they are indeed labor pains in that they keep coming back. When mine started, they were about 30 minutes apart.
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