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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
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.
Partly, I was still thinking that this could not be "it," that this might be false labor.
The labor monitors that HBR is developing will be able to differentiate between true and false labor.
 
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