Braxton Hicks Contractions
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Topic: Braxton Hicks Contractions
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Braxton Hicks Contractions
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 11:36am
| Just a quick question....is everyone supposed to experience these? I honestly dont think i have had any!! Anyone else like this? |
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 11:54am
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I don't think I had any with Maya. If I did I didn't feel them. The closest I got was wicked stitch across my tummy when I walked too fast or did anything too active that she didn't approve of. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 11:56am
| I don't think I had any, but it may just have been that I didn't recognise them. Some people get them much more noticeably than others |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 12:09pm
i never had any with jack either jess  ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: mum2emj
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 12:38pm
| i never noticed any in my first prgnancy, second i could kinda feel more tightenings but i have definatly been feeling them this time around, more than just tightening, slight ache with them too. |
Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 1:12pm
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I have been getting them, and it pretty much happens every day now.
When I first started getting them I thought it was the baby sitting hard against my belly, so whenever it felt hard I would assume the baby had moved into a position where I could feel it, but I was wrong. It was just my uterus contracting! haha |
Posted By: EthansMummy
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 1:18pm
I think i am  Are they almost like period pains? I wondered about that and when you get them. Am i too early to be getting them?------------- ** MUM TO ** Ethan 29/08/2006 Brooke 22/09/2008 |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 1:27pm
| All i get is Ella moving HEAPS cory thinks shes overactive LOL but no tightening that i have noticed at least i guess i can put that one thing on my positive side of the list to try and weigh it out even lol |
Posted By: 98765
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 1:33pm
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to me it just felt like i was pushing my tummy out, it took me ages to work out wat they were ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
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Posted By: Roksana
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 1:46pm
I didnt have them either....well at least I think I did not. Mind you I was clueless with these things at 39 weeks I went to the hospital for a check up and I felt tightness (actually it felt like zaara was really down under kicking me.....)in my tummy for weeks and once on the monitor my midwife told me that I was having mini contractions....I will like "I am????"....he he ha ha ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 1:50pm
| hehehe mebe coz i have had a "interesting" pregnancy ill have a nice labour hehe dreams are free altho my nana with all her kids had like 20 min labours coz she didnt know she was in labour, gets to the hospital and next thing shes pushing the little mites out haha *drifts off into dream land* |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 4:51pm
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i've just started noticing them regularly with this pregnancy, when i was preggy with ella i don't think i ever noticed them. maybe its just because i know what contractions feel like this time round, that i am aware of them?
------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 4:56pm
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Do BH contractions usually come with a throbbing lower back?
I've also been getting those 'down under kicks' like Roksana described - which feel SO strange! I just thought it was bubs wiggling to get comfy. I mean, my uterus has never contracted before so I wouldn't know what on earth it felt like haha!! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 24 April 2006 at 8:05pm
LOL Jess - you could be right. My pregnancy with Maya SUCKED big time, and the labour was long and sucky too, but I walked away from teh birth with none of the nasties like stitches, piles etc. and she literally just flew out. So maybe Ella owes you a good labour and birth after such a tough pregnancy... ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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