Contractions are short-term contractions of the muscles of the uterus. At the last stage of pregnancy, women may experience preparatory contractions. Why is this happening? The fact is that without preliminary preparation of the uterus for childbirth, it will be difficult for her to cope with an unexpected heavy load. Training bouts help prepare the uterus for the birth process and soften its neck.
On the question of when training fights begin, it is impossible to answer unequivocally, because this is very individual. Most often they occur after the twentieth week of the term, but they can appear earlier, and much later. Sometimes they are not at all.
During training bouts, the sensations can be strong and painful, but in some cases they are completely invisible to the woman. Everything depends on its threshold of sensitivity.
What do training fights look like?
A woman feels pain in the lower abdomen, similar to pain in menstruation. In addition, tension and hardness in the abdomen are observed. The pain sometimes gives back.
Painful training bouts
The fact that the preparatory contractions can be accompanied by pain is quite normal. If during the training bouts the sensations are too painful, take a warm shower, make an easy massage of the abdomen. Try to get distracted.
How to determine training fights?
First of all, you should calculate the time intervals between contractions. Training fights are irregular and quickly pass. Pay attention to how long the training fights last. They can last from a few seconds to two minutes, nothing more. The actual labor contractions last more than two minutes, they are cyclical and accompanied by the withdrawal of water. It is on these grounds that you can distinguish false battles from the real ones.