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false labor

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Noun1.false labor - painless contractions of the muscles of the uterus that continue throughout pregnancy with increasing frequency
Braxton-Hicks contraction
contraction, muscle contraction, muscular contraction - (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
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Days before, she had experienced false labor and felt disappointed when she had to go to an old single-story hospital on Lyons Avenue and Wiley Canyon Road because Newhall Memorial wasn't open.
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Partly, I was still thinking that this could not be "it," that this might be false labor.
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The labor monitors that HBR is developing will be able to differentiate between true and false labor.
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