WordNet
n. painless contractions of the muscles of the uterus that continue throughout pregnancy with increasing frequency [syn: Braxton-Hicks contraction]
Usage examples of "false labor".
I had no way of knowing that not long after I'd left Ildera's bedside, her false labor became genuine.
This wasn't false labor again, because the pains extended around her entire back and across her abdomen, rather than being limited to the lower abdomen and groin.
Lingering long enough on moonlight to be sure this was no false labor, she smiled with an odd mixture of envy and satisfaction as lanthe’.
Lingering long enough on moonlight to be sure this was no false labor, she smiled with an odd mixture of envy and satisfaction as lanthe's body arched in agonized spasms.
She had read enough about false labor to know that it rarely involved the woman’.
At the end of term, false labor is just a part of giving birth, especially for first-time mothers.