Can contractions be painless?

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I've been feeling my stomach getting real tight but it doesn't hurt or feel crampy, only sometimes it's felt a little crampy. Just noticeably painful, nothing too intense at all. Just feels like when period cramps finally start to calm down after the first or second day. So I can't tell if it's just baby stretching out my stomach or if it's a contraction. 
I'm almost 38 weeks. No signs of labor other than this.. I think I'm trying to make myself excited 😩☹️ 
I know I'm not going into labor or anything though.

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Yes with my daughter I went for non stress test on Christmas Eve & they said I was having pretty large contractions & wanted to keep me but I was feeling nothing & insisted I go home. I was back the next day to have my baby lol wonderful Christmas present!

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It's rare, but it does happen. Some women don't get painful contractions until they are in active labor or water breaks. My sister's baby was breech this Friday so her doctor sent her for an ultrasound and to get hooked up to check on baby and turns out she was having contractions and was 3cm. She said she felt a little tightening but no real pain. They sent her home to labor and she didn't feel pain until the next day. She had her baby a few hours later and is barely going home today because she was hemorrhaging on Sunday and they wanted to keep an eye on her. But yeah, it's possible.

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Most people don't experience painful contractions until you're in full on labor, they could be Braxton hicks, or you could be starting labor just keep a check on them if they get closer together or more intense then you can be sure it's the real deal

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Alot of times ur having contractions n dont realize it until ur n labor. I went over my due date with both ff my first 2 n had to wear the monitor for an hr just to make sure baby wasnt n distress n sure enough i was having painless contractions with both. But theyre almost never real labor, just getting ya ready 4 the big day! :)

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My mom had no pain with my brother nor me.  She recounts that she went on about her day as normal, cleaned the house and then headed to her doctor and she was told she was 7cm and she had no pain or nothing. I wish I have it as easy as she did.

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I didn't have pain with my contractions....I was 7cm when I got to hospital and the pain didn't start until literally 15 mins before pushing him out

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Yes they can, I was in labor with my daughter and never knew it.... Would have been born at home had I not noticed light blood after wiping.... Was already 10cm when I got to the hospital

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Yes they can, especially in the first stage

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Oh wow. Good to know.! Thank you so much for responding, ladies! 😊 I'll be sure to keep track of them

Can contractions be painless?

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