What does real contractions feel like??

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Experienced mamas only please!

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Early labor contractions feel like bad period cramps. It also feels like the unsettling feeling in your stomach of having painful gas before a bad diarrhea experience. The pain comes like a wave.. I remember thinking ‘here it comes’ so I would brace myself for a minute of deep breathing, leaning forward and rocking side to side. 
In transition it’s the early labor feeling plus a ton of pressure on your entire mid section front and back. Also you get less of break between contractions (only one or two minutes). I lost all control of getting through contractions at the end of transition but it was already time to push. 
I don’t even want to talk about pushing..

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Started off like really bad period cramps for me and progressed into what I'd compare to pinched nerve pain. I labored without pain meds and used the yoga ball/walking to relax myself and right before I was ready to deliver it got so that I couldn't sit on the ball because of the sharp intense pain. Not as crampy/achey as it was at first but just sharp. I've had back labor with both of mine though. Different for every mama!

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In the beginning it’s like gas or really mild period pains.
I was never bothered by early contractions.
As you get further along it’s like a giant Charlie horse and you really can’t talk through it

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tightening and cramping at first then really bad cramps like someone is squeezing your stomach super hard like ringing out a rag and I felt pressure in my vagina. It hurts 😑

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Ha! I don’t think you can truly describe contractions. In early labor they aren’t bad... you can totally definitely power through them. You’re thinking oh it’s not that bad. As labor progresses, that changes. The contractions get way more intense and in closer intervals. I would say it feels like a knife being twisted inside you every contraction. Active labor is no joke! From my first birth I’ve learned from my midwife how to breathe through each contraction and rest during the intervals. You can also walk or have a birthing ball that really helps you get through them. I delivered both my babies naturally because the pain for me was tolerable. The actual birthing of the baby wasn’t bad at all... was nothing compared to contractions... weird

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I was sleeping when I went into labor, and the first one I felt was painful enough to wake me up.  Like an intense period cramp.  As they went on, they got even more painful.  As some of the other ladies commented, they are at regular intervals.

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All of my contractions felt like period cramps except they stopped and started at equal intervals. Everyone told me that early labor was like period cramps so I kept thinking it was early and I shouldn’t go to the hospital. I finally did and I was 8cm dilated.

What does real contractions feel like??

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