How can you tell the difference between the baby and Braxton Hicks?

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I can’t tell if its my baby moving into my ribs/diaphragm or if it’s my stomach tightening from Braxton Hicks or early contractions. I’m 29 weeks

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I’m 34 weeks. For me it feels like a very uncomfortable tightening of my entire uterus, as if it’s vacuum sealing down onto baby, and it’s rock hard. It hard to move and walk when it happens because it’s suddenly like a big hard boulder in my abdomen. It’s not exactly painful, but I don’t enjoy it either. Sometimes if I try to move it hurts because it’s like I’m trying to bend or get up in a way that it won’t let me because it’s so hard.

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Braxton Hicks for me, are a painful tightening of the entire uterus.  Most people get painless ones but I never have.

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Braxton Hicks are lower down than that, or they were for me. I felt then around my pelvis and around the front of my belly bellow my belly button x

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Following this, I have a hard time telling whether she's balled up or if it's BH

How can you tell the difference between the baby and Braxton Hicks?

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