Contractions vs period cramps

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Avatar f tn s where you get period cramps, does it feel like period cramps? Get in the bath, see if that helps, pay attention to the cramps/pain... can you time them? If you arnt 37 weeks yet, do all I just said but if the pain doesn't go away in the bath, call your docto/L&D.
Avatar f tn Can you feel contractions in your back????
7913021 tn?1418048620 That's exactly what contractions feel like
Avatar f tn Do contractions ever feel like period cramps? I've been having cramps and low back pain off and on all day could it be small contractions?
Avatar f tn Hi all. I'm not looking for a substitute for a doctors answer but just wondering if anyone can explain what a contraction feels like. I'm 25 weeks. I fell down the stairs yesterday and my pants were soaked so of course I called the dr and went in to make sure nothing was wrong. She said everything seemed fine so I was content. I woke up this morning with cramps. Period cramps so it's consistent pain.
Avatar f tn 38 weeks pregnant and I've been getting period like cramps all night keeping me awake. They aren't regular yet, but does your stomach always tighten with real contractions? Seems the cramps come and go but there's no contracting. Sorry for silly question I'm ftm!
Avatar f tn Contractions feel like period cramps while you dont really feel any pain with braxton hicks.
Avatar f tn t know what the contractions felt like until I actually had them the day I went into labor. Some women describe them as period like cramps that get stronger and worse. I've never had period cramps so that didn't help. It started out feeling like pressure in my vagina - I honestly kept feeling like I had to pee but you can only pee so much! It progressed into feeling like someone was pushing outwards from the inside of my vagina. Then the contractions got longer and actually painful.
7758733 tn?1402589420 Before I got pregnant my period cramps were really intense. They were to the point I am in a fetal position in tears. And my bh contractions are almost to that point. They are in my lower back and my lower stomach. They stop me in my tracks. My tummy gets hard. And it lasts like 3 min. Where as actual contractions I was told that they are more frequent then that and they hurt worse. But there are those people who don't get the painful ones.
13619738 tn?1431114515 hurts hurt like period cramps, and when I was actually ona active labor it was just belly tightening. Its crazy but thats how my body works.
7656727 tn?1404157447 Im 37weeks and 5 days. Im having a lot of period cramps could those lead.to contractions?
Avatar f tn So as of yesterday ive been getting period cramps and this morning i was getting, im guessing, Braxton Hicks, nothing painful. Bt is it true that the period cramps are actually contractions or the start of contractions?
Avatar f tn SO I MADE 35 WEEKS YESTERDAY AND I ALSO WENT TO MY WEEKLY ULTRASOUND VIST/TESTING AND THEY TOLD ME I HAD THREE CONTRACTIONS.. TODAY I HAVVE BEEN HAVVING LIGHT CRAMPS LIKE MY PERIOD IS ABOUT TO START & I HAVVE NOTICED MY STOMACH HARDING FOR LIKE A MIN THEN REALXING EVVERY OTHER 30 MINS... SHOULD I BE WORRIED??
Avatar f tn Contractions feel like period cramps and starts in your back. Could be a start to contractions. I would keep track of them and call l&d.
Avatar f tn It was all clear no order. But now I'm having like period cramps.
Avatar f tn Braxton Hicks are more uncomfortable then they are painful like regular contractions.
Avatar f tn Contractions are more like bad period cramps. But im a ftm and have only had contractions a few times, they started at 37 weeks im now almost 39.
6807839 tn?1386436725 So i just read contractions are like period cramps +10. When i have a period i get really bad back cramps and not so Much abdominal cramps so i guess my question is will i have more back labor contractions then abdominal?? Or does it matter how your period cramps were?
Avatar f tn Ya, if ur having real contractions ur in labor. And there's many different things people believe make u dilate...some people say its the pressure of the babies head and some say it's Oxitocin being released that causes u 2 dilate or nothing rlly causes it except ur body preparing 4 birth.
Avatar f tn Some people have abdominal pain like period cramps then they turn into worse period cramps if you cant stand it i would go to the hospital but my contractions happen in my pelvic it feels like a sharp pain and tightness
Avatar f tn Pelvic pressure, period like cramps below my tailbone and my front pelvic. Plus swelling up pretty bad n my feet area.
Avatar f tn Start timing them because for my first son everyone said it feel like bad period cramps or gas pains... to me my period cramps felt wayyy worse so if it wasnt for my mom being down here with me and telling me look you are in labor we need to go to the hospital I was probably going to have the baby on my bed!! I was 7cm when I got to the hospital and still felt pretty good to be in labor...
Avatar f tn Well, I will describe my experience with them in two ways. With my first, I was young and had not experienced any period cramps before. So, when people said they feel like strong period cramps, I was still unprepared. To me, at that time, they ended up feeling like extremely strong cramps for a bowel movement. The kind you get when you have an extremely upset tummy but more intense. Now, however, I have experienced painful menstrual cramps, and people described it pretty accurately.
Avatar f tn Like horrible period cramps !!!!