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Lower Pain Contractions Start Abdomen Difference False Labor

Front What is the difference between pain during false labor versus true labor?
Back In the former, pain is in the lower abdomen; contractions start and stay in the lower abdomen.
In the latter, pains and contractions start in the lower back and "wrap around" to the lower abdomen.

Tags: 31, care, neonatal, obstetrics

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