Braxton Hicks contraction How'd they feel for you?

[Dansta]

i'm sitting here wondering if i'm having BH's!

i cant say i feel my belly getting tight as such, it kinda tingles a little (not in a way to worry me though) and im wondering if its BH's or just bubs moving around. if they are BH - yay for me i never felt them with my last pg so i had nooo idea what any one was on about when they talked about them

so what did they feel like for you?

[Visitor7]

With DD1 & DD2 they were just soft tightenings of the belly that would come and go throughout the day/night. They never hurt as such and I barely had to take pain relief. With this pregnancy, they hurt, a lot. I regularly have to take either pain relief or have a hot shower to ease them.

[~Kim~]

just like my contractions it turns out....didn't even know I was in labour as I had had such ouchy BHs that's what I thought they were...

[MrsFabuloso]

I started feeling mine faily early on with my last pg, about 16ish weeks I think. Early in the pg they were just tightenings. My tummy would go hard for a few seconds and would make it kinda hard to do stuff like bend or move too much. They usually only came when I was exerting myself too much. Later on they slowly started to get painful and quite ouchy regularly and like Kim, I was in labour and didn't realise it because I just thought it was my BH! Luckily I got to hossy when I was 8cm dialated! I just went in for some pain relief so I could sleep, lol!

[human bean]

Mine were also like tightening, it would almost feel like my belly was 'drawing up' for want of a better description, and it would go quite hard and tight. DH used to be able to feel the difference, they were never too uncomfortable, just enough to know it was happening. Some days I'd have lots, and then sometimes a break for a few days or maybe just one or two.

[~clover~]

Mine feel just like my belly goes really tight, then relaxes a few minutes later. Always leaves me needing to pee & I do have to stop through them, but they don't hurt.

[deletedit]

Belly goes hard like a rock, then releases and the baby kicks me furiously as if to say "what the hell was THAT for"

[Peg]

mine are just the feeling of my stomach tighening and rising up. They never hurt but its a bit awkward to move around. If i'm walking i have to slow right down and wait till they ease off. If im laying back when it happens i can look at my belly and see it chaning shape...it looks a little egg shaped during the contraction.

[*Beema*]

For me my whole tummy goes rock hard and it can stay that way for up to a couple of hours with no release, with DD is started at 22 weeks and generally if I was out in the city on a Friday night it happened everytime but with this pregnancy it started 6 weeks earlier at 16 weeks and would even happen while I was sitting down resting or in bed at night.

[twinklestars]

i had had some yesturday & today very painful took my breath away had to stop & breath threw them i was in pain for couple hours than eased off i thought gosh if this is a sign of whats to come ouch ouch ouch! bring on the drugs lol my last 2 cant remember having pain like that&gave birth twice without drugs lol this time around i think going to be very intense if today is any thing to go by!!!!!

[starangelk]

Same as the others, mine feel like my stomach is sooo tight as if the baby is pushing her entire body against my stomach and trying to get out that way. Mine come and go but my tummy is as hard as a rock and often strangely shaped during this time.

[Apes23]

Don't know if they are BH because I didn't get any with my DS but are they period pain like cramps that go with the tightning feelings cause that's what im getting at the moment?

[kylieb77]

Mine were also like tightening, it would almost feel like my belly was 'drawing up' for want of a better description, and it would go quite hard and tight. DH used to be able to feel the difference, they were never too uncomfortable, just enough to know it was happening. Some days I'd have lots, and then sometimes a break for a few days or maybe just one or two.

Mine have been just like this too - I never had any with my first pregnancy.

[Cassius2]

mine are a hard, rock-like tightening of the entire belly that radiates around the lower back. like beema mentioned they can happen for me at ANY time; whether i am sitting/lying/walking etc. very different to last time i must say! (only started to have mild BH around the 35 week mark). my BH started this time around 17-18 weeks.