Braxton Hicks? Or baby?

Question

How can you girls tell the difference between Braxton Hicks contractions and the baby just stretching or pressing on your belly 🤔 I keep thinking it's just the baby pressing, I feel one side of my belly get very hard at times and after a while it releases, but I'm thinking it's the baby. Last night I thought "what if it's Braxton Hicks and I don't know it" This is my first pregnancy so no experience at all 🙈 I'm 25 weeks

Answer

To me Braxton Hicks feels like stretching in my lower abdomen and it makes me tense up a bit. Baby feels like a thump. Like someone lightly tapping me, but from the inside.

Answer

I actually didn’t register if I had any Braxton Hicks my first time around. I had them, my NST monitored them, but I definitely didn’t feel them lol. I know they say it’s a tightening feeing but I didn’t feel anything like that when hooked up to the monitor that read I was having them 🤷‍♀️

Braxton Hicks? Or baby?

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