Not exact matches
Rather than thinking of
prodromal labor as «false labor,» it might be
more helpful to think of it as «practice labor.»
Women in
prodromal labor experience ongoing contractions for a day or
more without making any progress toward delivering the baby.
But Robert Heinssen, who is chief of the Adult Treatment and Preventive Intervention Research Branch at the NIMH and who led the study, claims that
prodromal symptoms, when considered in the context of a full medical history, can produce a much
more accurate prediction.
Prodromal labor can last days, weeks or even a month or
more, often starting and stopping at the same time each day (or night).
It really helped to talk to several other friends who had experienced
prodromal labor before and to research
more about it.
One of the most frustrating parts is not knowing when labor changes from
prodromal to active and many women have
more than one false alarm during these extended early contractions.
Each day that the
prodromal labor started, the contractions were
more painful and I used
more of the breathing / moving / visualization techniques I had learned to prepare for real labor!
After the
prodromal phase, the symptoms of cat rabies begin to get
more specific, and the cat enters the furious phase.