November 2012 Moms
Not Feeling Braxton Hicks?
I keep reading about how I'm supposed to be feeling BH contractions around this point. I don't feel a thing. Is everyone else feeling them? Do some people just not feel them at all or get them a bit later on?
Just curious.. FTM here and I have no clue 
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Re: Not Feeling Braxton Hicks?
I don't know that I'd ever be concerned about not feeling them, because it's the real contractions that will efface and dialate the uterus/cervix, not BH contractions.
BH, I was told, is just like the uterus "warming up" like a pregame prep.
For the longest time, I didn't realize BH were what I was feeling.
I thought I was feeling LO "come up to the front", but now I can distinguish the difference...
when it's a BH, you're whole stomach will get all tight and hard and you can poke all you want, it won't budge.
If it's LO, your stomach will only be hard on one side.
I honestly don't know if everyone gets them or not; I know not everyone feels them though. So I wouldn't worry.
this. i never thought it was anything either. but i was having them all along (:
I didn't feel them in my first pg, until just before delivery (like a couple of days before). It's not uncommon to not feel them with a first pg, or to feel them, but to have no idea that is what you are feeling.
I do feel BH this time. Usually, it's just a tight feeling, but sometimes they are pretty uncomfortable. I feel them mostly in the evening or if I am doing a lot of activity. BTW, I hate the way they feel.