What do contractions feel like

Painful tightening of the stomach lasting for about a minute. Hard to breathe through.

@alyen2, can they be down in the pelvic area

For me it was my entire stomach and pelvic area too. Then it went around to my back too.

@alyen2, cause I keep having some really bad pain down in my pelvic area that keeps coming and going

I only had back pains.

Is it 5 minutes apart, lasting 1 minute each time, for an hour straight? That was the 5-1-1 rule my OB had me use to determine when to go in.

@alyen2, it just started