Hey there,

Was hoping to get a bit of advice on what my body is doing lately (Alan?).
I've had many BHs this pregnancy, starting 16 weeks, but getting quite strong and noticable since 22-24 weeks. I think I have an irritable uterus as I did with my DD, both times which was kick started by threatened preterm labour at 22 weeks, both pregnancies.


Last night, I was a bit uptight and had a silly arguement with DP. I was getting quite painful BH contractions and after a few hours of that, started to time them at 9pm. I had 17 in the first hour, all 3 - 4 minutes apart lasting 30 seconds, then the second hour, they weren't as many, I had 13 and were 4-5 minutes apart which was the reason I didn't got into the hospital as they had slowed down, not gotten faster.

The contractions were the normal BH's I've been getting, knocking the breath out of me and my stomach becoming rock hard and I have to breathe through them as they must push on my lungs.

A big difference this time though to the normal BH's was that with each contraction I got a deep aching pain right down in my groin and through it had constant back pain, contracting or not which got quite intense during the contraction.

I know I'm not in labour, and it's eased again this morning, just contracting as normal when I move around or change position, i was just wondering if I could get advice on why sometimes they come on regular like that, and does it mean anything? Like maybe that labour is closer than I think? And I shouldn't worry if they have stopped today, should I?