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Mine felt like cramps that just got longer and more painful as time went on. I also had back labor and that felt like the cramos I get in my back right before my period but way worse.

I compare them to really really bad menstrual cramps. I didn't have back labor. Around 8cm dilated, I described them later to my husband as this: Imagine the uterus is a paper bag blown up like a balloon and tied at the end. It's perfect and smooth and round, and then a giant comes and crushes it in his huge hand, making it a tiny crumpled up ball, crushing steadily for a few minutes. Finally he releases it, and the paper bag slowly inflates again to its original state... .then two minutes later, the giant comes by again.

The worst pain I've ever had. I had back labor and I was just writhing in the bed each time they came. Just like someone was squeezing my back with hands and twisting it horribly as hard as humanly possible.

For me contractions were like really, really bad indigestion cramps. Menstrual cramps were never like that for me.

I agree. Like really really really (REALLY) bad cramps. When my friend first told me they feel like bad cramps, I was thinking "Oh, I know what bad cramps feels like. That's not too bad.".

Ohhhhh no. It's like the worst cramps you've ever gotten x 1,000,000.

Contractions felt like menstrual cramps, but 50x worse.

At first it was not so bad cramps. But they were often so I went to the hospital. But apparently they weren't bad enough to make me dilate even though they were 3-5 minutes apart. So I was sent home, where they got a million times worse and I was back within an hour.