Do contractions actually feel like peroid cramps

When my contractions started, they did start as heavy period cramping but the more intense they got, they definitely felt 100% worse than period pains! X

That's how it felt for me at the beginning. They definitely got more intense as labor progressed.

As above for sure! My full blown labour was more like- I couldn’t speak during my contraction due to the intensity of the pain - took my breathe away.
The day off I had mild cramps which was a good indicator x

Yes and progressively got worse

Nothing like period cramps do let anyone lie to u there so much worse

Yes but like 100 times worse but it progressively gets worse it didn’t get horrible until I was about 5/6cm and was in desperate need for the epidural, I always had horrible period cramps and had to miss school because of it but contractions are definitely like a full belly pain/ back pain and not just lower abdominal pain

In the beginning yeah bad cramps after a while it felt like every bone in my bottom half was breaking my labor was about 40 hours an not gonna lie I had a horrible labor experience an ended up with an emergency c section my mom said with hers it just felt like constipation pains an she was fine without drugs an everything I was on a shit ton of narcotics an it did absolutely nothing an I have a pretty high pain tolerance so really depends on you an your baby 🤷‍♀️ if I have another child my husband said I need to do a c-section because he was terrified I was gonna die (almost did a few times) an I personally would rather do the c section healing then go through labor ever again 🤷‍♀️ I have respect for any way a woman gets the fucker out 😂❤️