Medical Emergency and Labor
Dr. Jason James, Obstetrician and Gynecologist with Baptist Health South Florida, explains a true emergency is when you have significant bleeding or something unusual like umbilical cord prolapse, where you break your water and the umbilical cord comes out before the baby.
He also says anytime in the third trimester or earlier you can have contractions that are not necessarily labor and they can happen throughout the third trimester and they are practice contractions. They do not get stronger or more frequent.
