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a few stupid questions... contractions/BH/early labor

saturdaynightdoubletreesaturdaynightdoubletree member
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Ok, so last week I was in the hospital with some minor bleeding and contractions.. they gave me a shot to stop contractions and sent me home.

Do BH show up on an NST as contractions? Or are they not quite strong enough?

I ask because I'm super concerned that I am having "contractions" at this point in my pregnancy. I had an appointment today and the midwife told me to call when I start having more than 5 contractions an hour... is that to give me another shot to stop the contractions? Or to actually have the baby? (I wasn't thinking to ask when she said it) She didn't seem at all concerned, but I'm confused.

I was induced with DD, so never really worried about contractions, and didn't really feel them until I was almost ready to push... I knew I was having them before that because I watched the monitors. That's the only reason I knew I was having them the other day, I didn't really feel what I thought was contractions, more like that baby rolling or something... but the monitor had decent contraction peaks.

TIA for any insight here

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Re: a few stupid questions... contractions/BH/early labor

  • kg_08kg_08 member
    At this point I'm pretty sure she was telling you to let her know so they could stop them again. This early, they wouldn't let you have the baby unless it was showing signs of distress, or for some other medical reason.
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  • CheebeCheebe
    Like pp said you need to go in so they can stop the contractions.  You aren't far enough along to go in to have the baby, you need to get through about 4 more weeks.  If you can't tell but you feel something strange, push around on your bump and if it is hard everywhere then you are having a BH.  Time them and if you are having them like your MW said head to L&D so they can stop them.  HTH
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  • ashleydahlashleydahl

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    At this point I'm pretty sure she was telling you to let her know so they could stop them again. This early, they wouldn't let you have the baby unless it was showing signs of distress, or for some other medical reason.

    This. I started having contractions at 24 weeks and they did the same thing to me. Turns out I have an 'irritable uterus' and continued having contractions through 30 weeks. The contraction/medicine combo prevented any cervical progress though so everything was fine (I ended up going back to the hospital 3 times in that 6 week period). They just want to be sure you come in to see if you're having any cervical changes and to stop the contractions. It was terrifying at the time but now here I am, 40 weeks preggers and no contractions, no signs of him coming any time soon so early contractions don't necessarily mean early delivery. Hope that helps and Good Luck! I hope the contractions stop-they're no fun!!

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  • duncanpowersduncanpowers
    They won't be allowing you to progress to labor at 33 weeks unless they can help it. That is far too early.
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  • saturdaynightdoubletreesaturdaynightdoubletree member
    Thanks ladies... I figured that must be what she meant, and was freaked out how early it is... guess I needed someone to just state the obvious for me Embarrassed
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  • kg_08kg_08 member

    I just wanted to add something... a PP had said if your whole belly was hard that was a BH.

    Well, that is usually the case, but when I went into labor my belly didn't actually get hard all over with contractions until like 7 cm... maybe I'm just weird though. For me it just felt like my belly was getting tight.

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