what does everyone's contractions, bh, etc feel like?!

Re: what does everyone's contractions, bh, etc feel like?!

• missflor86

  January 2011

  I've only had one BH and just alot of cramping lower back, abdomen and pain in my tailbone and I guess all of that has been progressing me because at 38 weeks 6 days, I'm 4 cm dilated and about 90% effaced I think so we shall see if I even get any...

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• mylesmomma

  January 2011

  I feel pain really low in the middle and it radiates up and my whole stomach gets tight - mine usually last 30 sec to a min

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• Pamela05

  January 2011

  My real ones i felt really low. Menstrual cramping with the feeling of needing to pee and poop at the same time. Not at all the sensation I was expecting. They were pitocin induced though so maybe that made a difference.

  
  
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• RumbleLina member

  January 2011

  For me they feel like the are building up slowly, then it holds really tight for awhile, and slowy lets go (and here one comes now, lol). I equate it to slowly clenching your fist, holding tight, and then slowly letting go. My uterus does get hard as well during this but it only is the bottom portion of it, not the whole thing.
  

  Sometimes they are stronger and other times they are not as strong and I only know they are a contraction because my heart goes haywire from them. I have menstrual type cramps as well on top of it every now and then and those are apparently contractions as well? No clue on that one...
  

  Not sure about your sharp radiating pain that only lasts a few seconds though, that sounds like it would be caused by a nerve or something or RLP.
  

  

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• bmp84 member

  January 2011

  mylesmomma:

  I feel pain really low in the middle and it radiates up and my whole stomach gets tight - mine usually last 30 sec to a min

  This is what mine felt like. When they got really strong, I couldn't talk through them because they hurt like a mofo. They were like the most intense AF cramps.
  

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• cgator14 member

  January 2011

  lmcarver:

  I'll be 37 weeks tomorrow and had an app yesterday.  I asked my doctor to describe what a contraction would like b/c I have no idea.  I keep hearing everyone use the term tightening to describe them, and I had one day of stomach tightening/slash menstrual cramps off & on a couple weeks ago.  Ten recently (the last couple days) I've started getting these sharp/radiating pains from my stomach to vag.  They only last like a second or 2 so i don't think they're contractions but what the hevk are they?  Is she just moving down lower?  My doc said that not everyone gets "tightening" per say.

   

   

   

  Mine feel similar at times. I had my first internal last Mon. and I've been having more contractions like this ever since. I'm wondering if it means more dilation?? Another weird thing is I notice I have several of these contractions while I'm driving. who knows!!!!!....

  

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• starlily313 member

  January 2011

  I experienced exclusively back labor from the 1st contraction until I got an epidural. It was a sharp intense pain in the lower back radiating out towards my hips. I never felt my stomach/uterus tighten.

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• JAnalynn3767

  January 2011

  I feel them a lot in my back and some in my ribs.  Either a dull almost rolling paing in my back or if I do feel them in my stomach, it feels like he has balled himself up in there and is pushing all in one spot, usually high, just below my rib cage.  HTH It is very hard to explain.

  btw this is my first and would not know that these were contractions had I not had to be on the monitor and gotten to see when I was having them.  So I totally understand.  

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