Hello doctor. I am 27 weeks pregnant, recently I have had contractions that make my stomach hard, painful when walking or sitting, sometimes when lying down the contractions also become hard. The frequency of contractions is 10-15 minutes/time, sometimes closer.

Labor is a process that any pregnant woman must go through to be able to welcome her beloved, little child. The phenomenon of labor is completely physiological, it helps the fetus and its appendages to be removed from the mother's body. Signs of labor will occur at any time depending on each person and many factors.

Labor during childbirth is a completely normal physiological process of all pregnant women to help deliver the fetus and its appendages out of the body. Each pregnant woman will have different signs of labor and monitoring the onset of labor will help this process take place safely and smoothly.

In the last months of pregnancy, the mother will feel her abdomen tighten very hard. So can the mother distinguish between labor contractions and physiological contractions? Try the following quiz to check.

Buttock pain during pregnancy can be pain caused by an abnormality in the buttocks (such as hemorrhoids). It can also be pain that radiates from the lower back down into the buttocks. Buttock pain during pregnancy usually goes away after you give birth. But some women may continue to have hemorrhoids after giving birth.

The older the gestational age, the higher the frequency of lower abdominal pain in pregnant women. At 38 weeks of pregnancy, lower abdominal pain can be a sign of labor or other health problems. In this case, it is necessary to monitor your health carefully and go to the hospital for examination when necessary.