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After a few weeks of false contractions or Braxton-hicks contractions which are called practice contractions, it may be time for the true labor. So how does a true contraction feel like? The uterus is a muscular organ and it contracts and relaxes. This is nature’s way of pushing the baby out of the birth canal. Uterus would have expanded into a huge muscle by 9 months, so when this begins to contract,

Just the other day, I got a call from one of my friends, who was pregnant. My friend was telling me, she is only 30 weeks pregnant, but has been experiencing tightening of her abdomen, once in a while, which do not hurt but are pretty uncomfortable. She was anxious if these contractions could hurt the baby. I explained to her that the contractions she was experiencing