Where are contractions felt?

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Second/third time mamas, do you usually feel contractions quite low or higher? If you’re feeling lightness/hardness really low, accompanied by back pain, is that a contraction or just Braxton Hicks?

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Lol here is my diagram 😂
Starts at the red dot, then expands which is the yellow, then the blue which is the top, bottom. All that with the pain amd tightness and the entire area is like this within a few seconds and stays till the contractions done

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Its different for everyone but I've felt mine start on the upper "sides" of my bump and it creeps outwards to the front and back
So for me it was not low and not high its started in the middle and expanded to the entire bump within a few seconds. Accoponied with the tightness and super hard to the touch

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My water broke and I had zero pain for about 7hrs despite this (took me 4hrs to realize my water broke). When I finally had contractions, it was like period cramps... that eventually get incredibly painful across your entire abd

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With my daughter I was getting checked and the nurse told me to tell her when I had contractions. I honestly had no clue I was having them and she’s like why didn’t you tell me you just had one while looking at the monitor. I told like I thought that was her moving lol. It was just a tightness going across my stomach nothing major yet at that time. As time went on then I knew what they was. Lol

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With my first I had them in my stomach and with my second I had them lower back.. they r hard to explain lol
With this one I think I will have back pain..

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Mine felt low like period cramps but radiated down my thighs and to my lower back. It sucked.

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I had induced back labour so...
It was horrendous... I guess they started low like period pains but quickly wrapped around my sides and into my entire lower back... Its hard to describe... I literally felt like I was being crushed. 
I didn't have contractions in my stomach.. It didn't go hard or tense. It was vile lol.

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With my first I felt EVERYTHING internally. 
I had zero back labour and the tightening of my uterus didn’t bother me at all.

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