I'm not sure if what I just felt was a contraction. (I am 36 weeks) My whole stomach was real tight from right under my breastbone all the way down to under my belly button. I couldn't even poke it. It felt like the baby moving but my stomach didnt shift the way it does when the baby has moved before. Looking for any positive feedback others can give :-)
2007-09-11 09:32:53 · 6 answers · asked by ashley l 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
I had those for 2 weeks before I delivered, it def want not the same as a real contraction for me... if they happen regularly and then get closer together (5 mins apart) got to the hospital! Good luck!
2007-09-11 09:40:18 · answer #1 · answered by Mommyof3 BGB 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Start timing if it happens more than once. It does sound like either braxton hicks contraction of a real one. Both feel the same, but braxton hicks are sporatic, they are all over the place when timing them. Also braxton hicks will go away if you get up and move around or lay down etc. Real contractions will be fairly regular, as in 40 minutes apart then 30 etc. Not neccessarily like that, but they will be the same for a while then get closer and closer together. To time contractions you start timing at the beginning of one then stop at the start of another one. The time you get is how far apart the contractions are.
People deliver way early here and there, my cousin delivered a few months ago and she was two wks further along then we are (end of 36 wks) and he baby is fine. They have had some complications, but she is fine now.
The closer you are to 37 wks the better, at 37-38 wks the baby's lungs are fully developed and you are considered full term. It's is common to experience braxton hicks regularly in the last month of pregnancy, some people have several a day. One girl in our child birth class was having 4-5 a day in her last month and the teacher said it was perfectly normal. Of course being in our last 3 wks and 2 days i have not experienced this many in a day let alone in a week. So everyone is different.
Good luck and congrats on your new addition to come.
2007-09-11 10:31:52 · answer #2 · answered by ~Angel Eyed Pookie~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like Braxton Hicks contractions. If they appear to be widespread, you will have to leisure and drink a few water. The extra hydrated you're the fewer you'll have them. If you had been in early hard work, the contractions would not stop, they might simply preserve getting more potent. As a long way as the release, so long as there's no scent or whatever, it is usual. Your frame raises vaginal discharge in training for supply, it will occur via the leisure of your being pregnant. The diarrhea was once mostly whatever you ate.
2016-09-05 10:22:32 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a braxton hicks contraction. Totally normal until the day you deliver. I started getting them around 20 weeks and they lasted all the way until I delivered. And my stomach got just like yours...hard as a rock.
2007-09-11 09:36:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It may have been a Braxton-Hicks contraction. If there was no pain accompanying the tightness (or very little pain) then most likely it was only Braxton-Hicks.
2007-09-11 09:37:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe just Braxton Hicks?? Not impossible though - my daughter was born at 36 weeks!
2007-09-11 09:35:59 · answer #6 · answered by Sal*UK 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋