Contractions for preterm labor start before the pregnancy reaches term (before 37 weeks). Contractions during active labor are often painful and signal an impending birth.

A pregnant woman was sent home from the hospital after a midwife mistook her painful contractions for a urine infection - only for her to give birth hours later. Philippa Wadsworth was rushed to ...

If you enjoy drinking peppermint tea, you shouldn't give it up for the entirety of your pregnancy. But because peppermint might be able to cause some very mild uterine contractions, some women don ...