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Sixteen year old Dolly had been having painful periods for sometime now. She has her periods every 30 days but she was suffering from immense pain on the second and the third day of period. She also had some bloating in her lower abdomen. It’s common for many girls to have mild pain with their periods a couple of days each month.

गर्भावस्था के दौरान महिलाएं बहुत चिंतित होते है की क्या सही है और क्या गलत है। उदाहरण के लिए - क्या इस भोजन को खाने से बच्चे को कोई समस्या हो सकती है? क्या गर्भावस्था के दौरान सफ़र कर सकते है? क्या अल्ट्रसाउंड करना अच्छा होता है? और गर्भवती महिलाओं के सैकड़ों चिंताओं में से एक क्या गर्भावस्था के दौरान सेक्स कर सकते है या नहीं भी होंता है। क्या गर्भावस्था के दौरान यौन संबंध रखने से बच्चे को नुकसान होगा?

फेक (Fake Contractions) या झूटी या ब्रेक्सटन-हिक्स (Braxton-Hicks Contractions) संकुचन के कुछ हफ्तों के बाद जो प्रैक्टिस संकुचन (Practice-Contractions) कहा जाता है, यह एक सच्ची प्रसव के लिए समय हो सकता है। तो एक सच्चा संकुचन कैसा महसूस होता है? गर्भाशय एक मांसल अंग है और यह संकुचन और आराम करता है। यह प्रकृति का एक तरीका है बच्चे को इस दुनिया में लाने की। गर्भाशय 9 महीनों तक एक विशाल मांसपेशियों में विस्तारित होता है, इसलिए जब यह संकुचन शुरू होता है, तब दर्द का कारण बन सकता है।

Oxytocin plays a crucial role in emotional bonding - whether it is between romantic partners, parents, and children, or even owners and their pets. The hormone called the "love hormone" is naturally released into our body when we make love or make new friends. But apart from its role in social bonding and reproduction, oxytocin also helps mothers give birth. During labor Oxytocin stimulates powerful contractions,  helping the cervix to dilate and open up in preparation for delivery. This is why it is often used as a drug to aid birth.

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