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What do Braxton-Hicks feel like?

onehautehostessonehautehostess member
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Can anyone describe it to me?

 I wake up in the middle of the night almost every night for the past 2 or so weeks b/c it feels like the baby has curled up in a ball on one side of my stomach and the whole thing is hard.  (not sure if that is what is happening, but it's the only way I can describe it) I generally can lay on my side and rub it a little and make it go away...

 is this Braxton-Hicks or is this something else?

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Re: What do Braxton-Hicks feel like?

  • QmommyQmommy member
    It feels like your stomach is tightening up.  It sounds like a BH to me.  (By the way, I just got this information from Kaiser at my "mid-pregnancy" class tonight.)
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  • sweetestlovesweetestlove member
    Every morning when I wake up, little Yoshi is curled in a ball on my left front side. My stomach on that side is hard as a rock. If I move around a bit, he does too and it goes away. I have know idea what or why it happens, but the first time it kinda freaked me out. This is my first, so I have no idea what BH feels like.
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  • L's mommyL's mommy

    Sounds like you might be having them to me.

    My BH didn't ever cause pain, but my stomach would get rock hard for a few minutes at a time.

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  • PrincessBonniePrincessBonnie
    Your stomach will get really tight and hard for a minute or so.  Then it just loosens up.  
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  • onehautehostessonehautehostess member

    imagesweetestlove:
    Every morning when I wake up, little Yoshi is curled in a ball on my left front side. My stomach on that side is hard as a rock. If I move around a bit, he does too and it goes away. I have know idea what or why it happens, but the first time it kinda freaked me out. This is my first, so I have no idea what BH feels like.

    freaks me out sometimes too:)

    Guess that's why I wanted to know what it was and if it was normal...
    glad to hear I'm not the only one:)

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  • shakespearenluvshakespearenluv
    Doesn't really hurt but is definitely a hardening that usually lets up in about a minute.  They feel very strange and uncomfortable though.
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  • dvroxydvroxy member
    That's what happened to me when I had mine.  But mine hurt.  I had kidney stones a while back and it felt like I was getting another one, but it went away after a minute.

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  • blushadoblushado
    My contractions always just felt like menstrual cramps...even during actual labor, I never felt like my whole abdomen was tightening, it was just like a bad cramp times 1000000000000. 
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