What does a contraction feel like?

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Can someone please explain to me what a contraction feels like? I’ve experienced the tightening but sometimes I get really bad cramps like gas cramps where I have to use the bathroom so I run to the toilet and I start having cold sweats, so I don’t know if that’s a contraction or what.. I just don’t feel good 😥😥😥 38 weeks pregnant.

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I remember it feeling like a volume dial...they would start quiet, turn up turn up and at the peak of the contraction it was louuuuud then turns down to quiet again then rest.
Random I know 🤣

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Crazy gas pain that comes in waves.

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Mine start with burning in my lower back that intensifies and moves around to the front and feels like intense tightening !

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Feels nothing like gas cramps to me. 
Mine feel like tightening that's a little sharp and burns a bit kind of like a period cramp but worse. USUALLY coupled by cervical pressure.

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They start off like period cramps and get more intense. You will most likely feel very constipated and like you have to poop but it will come in waves every few minutes or so. I think you will probably know when it happens and when it’s the real deal!

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My actual labor contractions felt like period cramps. It’s hard to understand until you actually experience them because I had a friend describe them that way. But I really didn’t get it until I had them with my first!

What does a contraction feel like?

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