Contractions & Braxton hicks

[Ramsey91]

How can you tell the difference ? Please excuse the silly question!

 

[kumber]

The pain! Contractions feel like a rolling pain going from your foof up to your boobs and back down again. It's difficult to describe but it takes your breath away, you literally stop dead mid-sentence and there's no other type of pain like it. When it happens, you just know.

 

[Bunny432]

Love this post thanks Ramsey as I've been thinking the same.

Like Kumber says , the majority of women I have asked say you just know, must be instincts kicking in.

Another question, when getting contractions when do you call the hospital? And when do you make your journey in?

xxx

 

[KHTW]

Another question, when getting contractions when do you call the hospital? And when do you make your journey in?

xxx

No expert here but at the classes our midwife said not to come in until you have 3 contractions in 10 minutes lasting about 1 min each. But she added that if you want to be checked up you can come in anytime and they will just send you home if you are not more than 3 cm x

 

[Bunny432]

That's brilliant thanks KHTW!! Hope you're getting on well xxx

 

[Ramsey91]

See my problem is when in labour with my daughter they kept telling me i wasnt contracting when i thought i was , so wen to 8 & 1/2cm on paracetmol and walked around the hospital grounds so put the pain to the back of my mind.
Today I have been so uncomfortable like really agitated , can't sit, stand, walk or lie for more than 5 mins.
Been getting really bad tightenings like every 10 mins. bump,back and legs are really uncomfy.
Mum said she was like this early labor i just do'nt want to call and be wrong.
I believe it's when they are 3/4 mins apart hun.

xxx

 

[KHTW]

Hanging in there So far Lady Pregnancy has been good to me so can't really complain! Can't believe you have only 19 days to go?! xx

 

[KHTW]

See my problem is when in labour with my daughter they kept telling me i wasnt contracting when i thought i was , so wen to 8 & 1/2cm on paracetmol

xxx

You are my hero!

 

[Bunny432]

I know KHTW, I'll drop you a message now we can have a catch up!

Wow Ramsey that is some serious good going!!! xxxx

 

[Ramsey91]

See my problem is when in labour with my daughter they kept telling me i wasnt contracting when i thought i was , so wen to 8 & 1/2cm on paracetmol

xxx

You are my hero!

Haha it's only because the hospital kept telling me I wasn't so I thought I was just being a drama queen!
Had I known I was in labor I would of been a lot worse I reckon, mind over matter!!

 

[MummyBee]

I worry im not going to be able to cope at home until 3cm. I moan over period pain fgs lol! Xx

 

[Laurajcole]

Braxton hicks shouldn't intensify and will ease off. I had braxton hicks but didn't confuse them with contractions. I do believe you will just know!

For your 1st baby they do recommend 3 contractions in 10minutes. Any pregnancy there after they advise 4 contractions in 10 minutes I think.

You have to use your own judgement. If your leaking waters or in too much pain etc you have to go to hospital.

 

[xjdx]

This time round, i thought the pains was because I was constipated. Turned up to hospital and I was 10cm �� but my waters hadn't gone. Think contractions for me are more intense when my waters have gone xx

 

[xLoulabellex]

Is it possible that contractions can occur without back pain/pain running up and down the bump?
I don't think I'm getting any proper contractions, just wondering if it's possible. My BH are quite vicious tonight. Feels like constant period cramping. Not to mention my poor pelvis is in absolute agony.
Again, I don't really think that this is it for me, I'm just curious if it is possible to have the real deal with just period type cramps.

 

[MysticTeen]

My contractions weren't in my back at all despite having baby back to back! I was literally just in the bottom of my stomach. Started of as bad period cramps and got worse until it felt like someone was shredding my uterus.

 

[Laurajcole]

My contractions were just a horrible period type cramp that you could actually feel, my stomach tightened. It was like a ripping/pulling pain low down. I had no back pain.

 

[Ramsey91]

Thank you everyone, still getting pains, unfortunately not any less than 10 mins apart but very uncomfortable and agitated constantly. Came home to bed at 7pm until around and 10pm then went to the supermarket and walked the dog.
Mum is saying I'm very much so what she was like early stages of labour so we will see where this leads! (Probably nowhere!) my son is a tease!!!

 

[MysticTeen]

Good luck!!! Sounds like early labor to me too

 

[H16]

I think it is quite hard to give a definite answer on this one as I have heard of people who's real contractions are not even painful but for me BH feel very uncomfortable and aren't nice and felt exactly like my very early contractions in labour but once they got going in real labour boy did I know about it and they get super close together and more and more painful rather than staying at the same level. I was screaming our old flat down when I was only 2cm so there was no mistaking I was in labour haha. But then on Other hand my SIL doesn't feel painful contractions at all hence why she only made it to hospital at last second and nearly had my niece in the car park! Really varies from person to person. I normally have a brilliant pain threshold so was convinced contractions would be horrendous but manageable and I was actually quite cocky during the first stages that it wasn't that bad until the real pain kicked in x

 

[H16]

Thank you everyone, still getting pains, unfortunately not any less than 10 mins apart but very uncomfortable and agitated constantly. Came home to bed at 7pm until around and 10pm then went to the supermarket and walked the dog.
Mum is saying I'm very much so what she was like early stages of labour so we will see where this leads! (Probably nowhere!) my son is a tease!!!

Could well be labour Hun, that is how mine started and once I got to 4 mins apart I really knew it was labour. Best of luck Hun x