Another BH question

Glowconsin

This is my first pregnancy so I have no idea what's normal and what's not.

That said, I always assumed that when i'd get like a knot or a hard point in certain areas of my belly, that it was just a baby butt.  I started thinking the other day, that maybe it's not and maybe it's BH contractions.

What do BH's feel like and how different are they from babies moving around?

everam01

I could feel BH sort of building up and if I felt my abdomen the entire thing was hard. It would hold for a little while and then release.

When a baby moved, it would only be one part at a time, or sometimes rolling across. 

Fancy3Face

everam01:

I could feel BH sort of building up and if I felt my abdomen the entire thing was hard. It would hold for a little while and then release.

When a baby moved, it would only be one part at a time, or sometimes rolling across. 

Exactly this.

zsvendsen

I always assumed the same as you did. And so far, when I think I do get BH contractions, it really is an all-over tightness that feels really heavy.

However, at my childbirth classes, the nurse said that sometimes women come in for a check-up, mention that the baby has been shoving a bum out a lot, and when they're on the monitor it turns out to be contractions. She (the nurse) said that the top of the fundus will get hard, so check for that. I poke around my whole belly to see if there's a difference between hard and soft spots, and when it feels just like one of the babies shoving I do have soft spots as well as what I assume are baby parts. But I guess I really don't know. Hopefully some of the girls who have actually been through the whole process can answer a little more fully.

At this point, if I look down and see something bulge out, I figure "ok, baby movement."

Glowconsin

So, when you have a BH contraction, you'll know it?

 Kind of like orgasms, you know it when you know it.

zsvendsen

Ha! Yes, I think so. I mean the whole thing feels really hard - this is about the BH, not orgasm.

Sharra711

Baby B keeps shoving her head/back/butt at the top of my ute and causes BHs. I have to feel on the sides of the belly to see if it's a contrx or just her.

eyelovemascara

My BH were an entire belly tightness that was uncomfortable. They did not distinctly come and go, so it was hard to time them or figure out how many I was having. All I knew was that my belly was rock hard all the time and I was in pain. It was very different than feeling movement of the babies.

Fancy3Face

Glowconsin:

So, when you have a BH contraction, you'll know it?

 Kind of like orgasms, you know it when you know it.

EXACTLY.  When I started having them I knew immediately.  They sort of took my breath away and as pp said, built up and tightened my entire abdomen.  In the later stages I literally felt them WAY low, like in my cervix.  They never got painful for me at all, they just kept coming in waves, especially after working all day. 

tvass1981

I didn't really know whether what I was feeling was a BH or the babies moving either.  Then I had the sensation while I was in my OB's office and he's the one that told me it was a BH contraction.  But like a PP said, mine don't come and go very distinctly.  Or, I can tell when they start, but I have a hard time sensing when they stop, so it's hard to for me to time them.