Sentences with phrase «of mild contractions»

Most women get plenty of warnings that things are about to start (a show, waters breaking, hours of mild contractions), and first babies often like to keep you on your toes with plenty of false starts and trips to the hospital only to be sent back home again!

Don't let the movies scare you, though: most of early labor consists of milder contractions with plenty of time between them for breathing, relaxing, wandering around the room, or arguing over baby names with your partner.

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Effacement could be accompanied by mild contractions, or none at all, so you might not know you're effaced without the help of an OB - GYN and / or midwife.

While on the phone with co-workers, I started having mild contractions which I thought might be Braxton - Hicks, but I thought it might be the start of back labor.

Another type of medication is epidural anesthesia which allows mom to feel only mild to moderate contraction intensity and pressure during labor and childbirth.

The first couple of hours after my water broke were manageable — the contractions were mild as my husband and I walked around the corridors of the labor and delivery ward, showing off my new leopard - print slippers to the night - shift nurses and practicing how we were going to tell all our friends the story of my water breaking right after the creme brulee had been cleared.

By testing cycling time to task failure (TTF) in a group of 12 active participants in a placebo controlled study, Dr Mauger discovered that stimulating the brain by passing a mild electrical current (transcranial direct current stimulation or tDCS) over the scalp to stimulate it increased the activity of the area associated with muscle contraction.

With my second, I was having mild contractions at 37 weeks and then pieces of my mucus plug came out around 7 pm at night.