Real or BH??

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Okay, FTM stupid question here. Everyone keeps saying that you “know” when you’re having a real contraction. Is it normal to have Braxton Hicks is short spurts, on and off over the course of an hour?  It’s not painful, just a crampy feeling and they aren’t increasing in frequency and intensity. I have a very high pain tolerance and from day 1 have worried that I’d miss real labor pains and not make it to the hospital in time. Any others I’ve had up to this point was more like 1 longer one then gone. But, my dr checked me last Thursday and I was only 1cm dilated and since then it’s been feeling different. Opinions or thoughts?  I really don’t feel like they’re real contractions that I should be timing, but am second guessing myself here in my irrational hormonal state.

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The biggest difference in my opinion is that there’s the cramping feeling along with real contractions, versus just the tightening you get with BH. Even in early labor, when contractions are still very very mild, they still feel different from BH.

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Thanks for all the help ladies. Everything went away and I’m just fine this morning. I really just need to follow my gut feeling and chill out 😆

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BH should not have any pain, but if they are really firing off you should time them because if they are coming regularly you should call your doc! And if you are having a lot of them you should lay down on your left side and drink a bunch of water. This is my third summer pregnancy and dehydration is not good! I ended up in the triage being tested/treated for preterm labor with my first and they had to give me an iv for dehydration!

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tgis is my second and i still cabt tell the difference. i knew when i was in labor with my first because i was induced and that shit hurt. but si do the cramps i have bow from time to time. so if it gets to the point where i need to work through them i know its labor, real contractions do hurt, but sometimes so do braxton hicks. so just trust your gut, if you dont thibk you should time them, then dont. you will know when you should. but i have had what im assuming to be braxton hicks that had me in tears. so just know everyone is different and you need to trust your body. and go with your first instinct.

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I’ve been having so many BH episodes that I wonder that myself lol. I once had an episode of over 10 BH/h for periods of about 3 hours. They would then go away, and come back a few hours after. I ended up going to L&D; where they kept me for the night, because when BH occur as often, they can trigger labour. But what they told me to look for is pain on your back, and pelvis along with the contractions. Also, BH squeeze all over, whereas real contractions squeeze from the top of the belly (like trying to squeeze the baby out downwards). Apparently that’s how you tell them apart.

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real contractions feel the bad bad period cramps. the worst your period has been. or you can have them in your back.

Real or BH??

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