Hey girls

I'm nearly 28 weeks and 2 nights ago I woke in the middle of the night with what felt like bad contractions and bad back pain. And tonight it hit again. I was in agony, totally freaked out and had to have a hot bath. Hot bath didn't seem to help at all as they started just after I'd already got out of the bath! They eventually just stopped after 30mins of them getting stronger. Were these braxton hicks??I was under the impression that b/h's were painless. I had them with Gemma but nothing like this. I had to breathe through each contraction. Please tell me they are just b/h's. To be honest I can't remember much of my labour with Gemma as it went for 23 hours and I was pooped as you can imagine(and very out of it)! The contractions were up high working there way down as the pain went through my tummy and through my back. I also took a couple of panadol but that didn't even touch the sides of this pain. They were'nt however so bad that I couldn't talk through them. Does that make sense?? Sorry to babble but Corey and I freaked out a bit as its way to soon to be having pains like this!

ETA-Should add that Bub was very very active during this time thats what leads me to believe that they were b/h's. And also I had bad shivers and shakes when these contractions were happening...hmmm very odd indeed!