What are the symptoms of uterine contractions in pregnant women

Pregnant women will not only experience uterine contractions in the late pregnancy, but also false uterine contractions in the middle pregnancy. The difference between true uterine contractions and false uterine contractions is that the former are regular and accompanied by lower abdominal pain. When a pregnant woman reaches the delivery period, she will have obvious symptoms of uterine contractions. Generally, the belly will become tight and hard at intervals, which will last for thirty to forty seconds and then stop for a while. Let’s take a look at the detailed introduction below.

Symptoms of contractions

1. By the due date, only uterine contractions accompanied by pain are the precursors to delivery. Some women feel the pain of the beginning of uterine contractions in the abdomen, while others feel it in the waist.

2. In fact, if the uterine contractions are not strong, you may not feel them or they may be the same as the lower abdominal pain during menstruation. The intensity of pain also varies from person to person. When uterine contractions cause you slight pain, after a while it passes, the pain gradually becomes stronger, the intervals between them shorten, and the pain duration prolongs.

3. The contractions come like waves, and the pain spreads to the lower abdomen, or there is a feeling of lower back pain and defecation. This kind of contraction is in preparation for the birth of the baby. So this little pain is nothing. As long as you cooperate with the doctor and use the breathing exercises you have practiced to coordinate the contractions, you can successfully go through the delivery.

4. Its reaction changes gradually during pregnancy, from irregular to regular. At the beginning, the intensity is relatively small and the duration is very short. As the due date approaches, not only the intensity increases, but the time interval shortens and the duration increases.

Mild contractions

In the last month before delivery, the closer you get to the due date, the more irregular the contractions become. They may appear and disappear suddenly, the frequency of contractions will be disrupted, the time intervals will increase, the duration will be irregular, and the intensity will not increase. This mild uterine contraction does not cause any major problems for expectant mothers, and the situation during the day is better than at night.

Painful uterine contractions

Real uterine contractions will make expectant mothers feel obvious "pain", and their lower abdomen may feel bloated and painful like during menstruation, which is caused by the increased strength of uterine contractions.