thread: Tightenings - Is this just streching?

  1. #1
    Registered User

    Jul 2007
    Camden - Sydney
    297

    Tightenings - Is this just streching?

    Throughout the day (mostly in the last afternoon early evening) I've been getting these 'tightening' feelings. It almost feel like braxton hicks, but I know it's WAY too early for that. Is it just streching I'm feeling?

    I'm not too worried but I would just like to know.

  2. #2
    Registered User

    Oct 2007
    ★ nor here nor there ★
    4,134

    I've had BH's with this bubba since 16 weeks, with DD they started at 22 weeks.

    It could be BH's or growing and stretching

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Aug 2008
    35

    Hi,

    at my 12 week scan a few weeks ago, it was really clear on ultrasound and the monitor that i was having BH contractions, the sonographer and doctor both identified this - and it was a shock to me. Apparently it is really normal - and is simply your body getting ready to do its thing.

    this is my second bub - and with my first, i didn't feel them this early from memory, but i certainly feel them now. Particularly in the late afternoon - last night it was pulling, tugging etc.

    they are right, every pregnancy is very different.

    cheers
    Levi

  4. #4
    Registered User

    Dec 2007
    Sunny Qld
    14,682

    I felt it much earlier with my second pregnancy than I did with my first. So it could be