Pregnancy Labor: How to Spot Real vs Fake?

When it comes to pregnancy people become more precise as the situation demands, they might be new situations arising and new experiences each day. One of the most exciting yet full of anticipation event is labor, the last trimester when the women and everybody associated jumps the gun and rushes to hospital as the mother-to-be experiences labor pain, and commonly it is labor pain while some are a series of contraction called Braxton Hicks contractions. You can unnecessarily stress yourself and your family if you are in the third trimester and panicking. Educating yourself and the family between real and false labor is important to protect oneself from the unusual rush and to save immense energy while you need it during childbirth.

Are you feeling Braxton Hicks Contractions?

Most women’s rush to the hospitals feeling last trimester when they feel hardening and tightening of the uterus only to return home after being informed condescendingly by smug medics that it was just false labor, what does it feel like?

• The contractions however are painless but make you feel uncomfortable.
• A contraction is irregular and does not increase in frequency or severity as time passes.
• The pain starts in the lower abdomen, however the lower back aches in real labor.
• The pain recedes with movement.
• The fetal movement hicks at the time of contraction.

How does real labor feel?

The real labor is preceded by a series of physical changes lasting for a month which is pre-labor, the alarming time for you to welcome the baby. The changes marks cervical dilation and effacement which is the descending of fetus in the pelvis another sensation of pressure is felt on rectum and pelvis, there is an increase in the number of Braxton Hicks Contractions, etc, these symptoms are the beginning to start preparing the body for labor, the real contractions however are stronger and painful, it might take place frequently. Here are some symptoms marking real labor

• Real labor pain increases more with activities; changing positions does not cure the pain.
• The pain is similar to stomach upset accompanied by diarrhea.
• The labor pain spreads over the lower abdomen and sometimes radiating to legs, you feel most pain in the lower back.
• Labor pains have no set pattern but contractions become more frequent. Regular and frequent, each contraction more not be similar to the last contraction, there is a definite increase in the level of labor pain.
• The water and membrane break either as a gush or trickle.

Since you know how the real and false labor feels like you must have figured out the basic difference between them. You must have enough knowledge about the kind do labor pain you are going through as it decides the time for due date or just some uneasy behavior of the muscles

How do you know the difference between the two labor?

Real and false labor pains are often confused and lead to the immediate rush of the women and family, which sometimes might bring rough situations. False labor pains are also difficult to distinguish from preterm uterine activity which sometimes comes before premature labor lets us know what the difference is

False labor is the practice of your body from the main day; it can take place in intervals from the 20th week. The uterus gears at the time of delivery and starts flexing. The contraction does not last long, however it might last as long as 2 minutes and as short as 30 seconds, these contractions gets more frequent and intense as the date approaches.

Real labor marks the delivery time, it starts with mild contractions to full-blown pains and culminates in the delivery of the little one.

Ways to tell is it is real or false Labor:

• When contractions are not frequent they might be false labor.
• Pain in the lower abdomen is false labor while the pain in the lower back is real labor.
• Does walking makes you feel better? It might be a false labor.
• Red streaks on underwear are for real labor while brown streaks are for false labor.
• If contraction does not change the position of the fetus then it is real labor, false labor marks movements of the fetus during contraction.

The better knowledge you have, the sooner you deal with the upcoming events, identify the kind of labor you are undergoing and live the most beautiful phase of your life happily.

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