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Re: Braxton Hicks
With DS I don't remember having them till the last few weeks and only if I walked up a hill too fast, etc. It just felt like my ute was squeezing itself and getting hard. Sometimes it was hard to tell if it was a BH or if DS was just pushing outward.
This pregnancy I'm getting tight ute all.the.time. since before 20 weeks my midwife comments on how hard my ute is every time she touches my belly. If I stand too long, walk too fast, etc it goes tight, etc. It's usually the top half, which is where little girl is hanging out. I get them a lot in the afternoons, especially at the end of the work week.
They're not painful (usually...Friday afternoons are sometimes wince-inducing) but definitely uncomfortable. Not timed or predictable though, so I'm not nervous about it.
BFP #1 June 2016: EDD 16 March 2017, MC July 2016
Re-started TTC Aug 2016
Started IF testing Nov 2016
Spontaneous BFP #2 January 2017: Rainbow Baby Boy September 2017
BFP #3 November 2018: Baby #2 expected August 2019
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=#&ved=2ahUKEwjvy-CivaTiAhWryqYKHUTiD6gQwqsBMAF6BAgGEAo&usg=AOvVaw0VTJzWxrN8ZFOD4xbU2nov
Also you can find charts like this all over the Internet
BFP #1 June 2016: EDD 16 March 2017, MC July 2016
Re-started TTC Aug 2016
Started IF testing Nov 2016
Spontaneous BFP #2 January 2017: Rainbow Baby Boy September 2017
BFP #3 November 2018: Baby #2 expected August 2019
My stomach just gets tight and uncomfortable and then goes away.
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I just sat down really hard on my butt on Wednesday that week and noticed pretty much right away pain in my stomach. it got worse throughout the night where the husband couldn't touch me. I called the dr in the morning after I had some spotting when I woke up and they had me go to L&D to be monitored. They said I was likely just dehydrated and having Braxton hicks because the labs/ultrasounds/monitors did not show any labor activity (thankfully). It was freaking scary though.
It was weird to me - I thought BH would be on and off, this was constant, just worse when I would walk around. And my belly didn't really get tight too much, sometimes it did but not really.
Me 32 H 33
TTC#1 January 2016 BFP 5/16/2016 DD Born 1/27/17
TFAS: BFP 11/26/2018 Estimated due date: 8/2/2019
My 7 Year Journey ***Tw in spoiler***
IVF #1 - September 2018; Follistim, Menopur, Cetrotide & Lupron/HCG combo trigger; PGS; ICSI
Back on Levothyroxine
FET #1 - October 2018; cancelled, all PGS aneuploid
FET #1 - November 30th, transferred anyway
Wondfo BFP 5dp5dt, CB Digi 6dpt,
1st Beta on 7dpt 93
2nd Beta on 10dpt 510!
TTC #1 since 2011. Tried for 5 years before we knew there was a one year rule.
Diag w/MS 2016; w/PCOS & IF 2017
New RE 2018; PCOS diagnosis taken away, IF due to ovary adhesions, but prev. RE insists PCOS IF
IUI
IUI #1 July 2017 w/100mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #2 October 2017 w/50mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #3 February 2018 w/5mg Femara+trigger; low P
BFP February; mc March; Subclinical hypothyroid started Levothyroxine
IUI #4 March 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Medicated cycle & TI April 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Tried several cycles on our own; all BFN
1/12/13 DD was born
4/9/16 DS was born
9/17 CP
6/23/18 BFP EDD 3/4/19
Diagnosed : unexplained infertility
6 rounds of IUI and a MC 2/2014, rainbow twins 4/2015
TTC #3 5/2016
Restarted Fertility tx
IUI 2 rounds, baby girl 12/17
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I've gone from bed rest for almost 5 months, to walking 2km for work every day. I guess I pushed it too hard on Thursday cuz I was having quite a bit of pain. I had to stop and rest for several minutes on my walk back to my car. My belly got firm and it was...aching/pulling almost cramp like pain. Stuck around on and off through the evening. Especially when I tried to move. I actually couldn't get up off the couch at one point, and had to roll off on to my knees on the floor, and get DH to help me stand.
I paid for parking at a close lot on Friday, to give my body a bit of a rest haha