I did not make an exhaustive search of the internet concerning home recovery after bowel resection surgery. If you’re not sure that you’re in real labor but the contractions are coming pretty regularly, call anyway. In third grade, students learn to differentiate between some common contractions and their homophones (they’re/their/there, you’re/your). After five weeks now, the pain is gone, he is still there, but is showing signs of going back into hiding.

Count the time between contractions from the start of one to the start of the next. As your body does the work of labor, it is likely that the time in between contractions will become shorter. The first couple of weeks at home it seemed like every half hour, even at night.

The time intervals between contractions gradually decrease and the pain increases. They always made me nervous even though they do feel different than real contractions so …