What do contractions feel like?

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Do they feel like Braxton Hicks', only stronger? Or do they feel like period cramps? FTM here and I'm very crampy!

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So one thing that helped me when I was pregnant with my first was someone described labor contractions as kinda having a "wave effect"...meaning they'd start out less severe and kinda gradually increase in severity and go back down with each contraction. It seemed to ring true for me (though I did end up going to hospital a day early and getting sent home haha). Hope that may be helpful...I know it can be worrisome/confusing the first time around (and, truth be told, I'm on round two and still don't know what the heck I'm doing!), but best wishes to all y'all for a healthy and stress-free delivery!!

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It can vary from person to person and even from pregnancy to pregnancy. For me personally it felt like period cramps. It was a very obvious difference from Braxton hicks. With my BH it was always just a tightening of my stomach without any pain. The contractions had that ache that went along with them.

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Mine were like period cramps that got more and more severe.

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Mine kind of felt like the cramps you feel when you have to go to the bathroom that got increasingly worse.

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Period cramps times a million I was keeled over. They woke me up my sleep. Then I had about 4 more (crying already) and my wife drove me to the hospital

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I would say a combination of both really just depends...how far along are you?

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