Contractions or what?

Question

What does a contraction feel like? I’m not sure if I’m having contractions or not. My back keeps tensing up and it feels like it is super tight and like stuck. My abdomen just feels like a mild period cramp. It is my back that is so bad. It will release in about 45 seconds to a minute and are coming every 20 to 30 minutes. I’m 30 weeks. Not sure if I should go to L&D; or can wait until tomorrow morning when I have my prenatal appointment?

Answer

sounds like labor. early labor pains felt like period cramps to me. do you have an on-call nurse you can call?

Answer

Braxton Hicks aren’t usually felt in the back. That’s almost always true labor

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I never had Braxton Hicks or anything and I had super mild contractions in the beginning of labor that felt what I imagine period cramps would be like...I don’t get cramps either. It was like a tightening along my belly button line. But when I had to have pitocin and those contractions really started coming, the best way I could describe it was like someone was putting a crowbar between your inner hip bones and jacking them out to either side.

Contractions or what?

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