when people write (like in the post below re: the week before labor) that you were having contractions now and then - what type? Painful ones?
I have contractions- they are not comfortable- but they are also not painful... so i'm just calling them BH.
i'm just confused as to what people really mean when they say they were having contrax before XYZ happened.
thanks!
Re: those who say "i was having contractions", etc.... what did they feel like?
I can only share my experience -
At week 22, I'm driving to work and get really light-headed and HOT. I roll down the windows b/c I'm sweating (oh, it's Jan in MN so about 6 degrees). By the time I get to work, I feel better but I have some strange tightness REALLY low. My OB's office is across the street from mine so I call and head over (my coworkers talked me into it).
They hook me up and there I am contracting regularly (like every 5 min or so). Now these are not something I feel but they put me on bedrest for the duration.
THEN, throughout bedrest, I'd get them every now and then. They were just a tightening of the entire uterus. Hard, like a soccer ball.
I was induced prior to having an emergency c/s. And those contractions were much different.
hope that helps,
I had contractions the entire time I was on terb (from 30wks on) and as I got towards to end they just seems to make my belly harder. Like you said, they werent comfortable but they werent painful. The weekend before the boys were born I noticed that my heart would start to race a bit before each contraction and I also started to feel them more in my back.
FWIW - I stopped my terb on Sunday night and the boys were born tues morning so who knows if I was in some kind of labor pattern or if it was just not being on the terb.I think I was in labor and just breaking through the terb.
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for me, with the boys i had BH contrx starting at about 18 weeks..
you know, just the intense tightening, and as i got further along, they would come in a pattern (every 5-7 min)..but the night i went to the hospital for pre-term labor (the first time) they were different, and became painful..it was like the same contraction with pain at the peak of them. i think those are what made my cervix start to dilate, but i can't be positive it hadn't started earlier with the "BH contractions".?
when i went in that night, and had even thought that they had slowed down to about every 10 minutes, they hooked me up and said i was contracting every 2 minutes..so who knows!?
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My NSTs for the last couple of weeks show I am having contractions, but I've only felt one (as in the type of contraction pain that comes rushing back to you after you've forgotten your first labor lol). I can tell that I'm contracting but they aren't painful and they go away when I lay on my side. My ob said that if they became frequent or I could "feel" them (as in painfully), to let him know.
I haven't been put on bedrest or anything though. I, too, mark it up to BH.