They are your body's way of getting ready for the “real thing.” Braxton Hicks contractions can be described as a tightening in the abdomen that comes and goes. Unlike true labor contractions ...

If you learn what contractions feel like and how to tell the real ones from the fakes, you'll avoid heading to the hospital before it's time. During labor, you push your baby out of your womb ...

What's more difficult to determine is whether contractions are the "real deal" or not, meaning if you're actually going into labor or not. "To put it simply, labor contractions are sudden ...

Real or active labor – is defined as regular contractions and the cervix is changing. Real labor has a regular pattern for a couple of hours, and the cervix is opening or dilating, and also ...

I found myself offering explanations and context for why I hadn’t: that the hormone they’d given me to kick-start labor had made the contractions worse, that it was the middle of the night and ...

The nation celebrates Labor Day today and people are asking what ... The workers' purchasing power is deteriorating. Real wages have been reduced way below the living wage.