Can Braxton Hicks be regular??🤨

Question

I am currently 38 weeks & 3 days and I’ve been able to track what I’ve been thinking is Braxton Hicks. My belly tightens a lot to where it’s uncomfortable, but by no means painful. They’ve been every 10 minutes accompanied by constant lower back pain, which I’ve heard back pain with true labor would come and go. I also had 3 wake me up in the middle of the night just because they were strong, again not painful. Just curious if I should be thinking about driving over to the hospital or not! Here’s what I’ve been able to track so far! Thank you🤗

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This is the updated progress but still no true pain, any thoughts?

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You might be in the early stages, but definitely not time to go to the hospital unless you’re high risk and you have specific instructions from your doctor. If they are real contractions (they might be!) you still want to wait for them to be 5 mins or less apart, each lasting an average of 1 minute for more than 1 hour before heading to the hospital. If you’re a FTM and you show up to early they will send you home again.

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Usually you can get Braxton Hicks to stop by drinking water and sitting with your feet up. My contractions became prodromal contractions in the last two weeks- painful contractions but not in a consistent pattern. With those I had a couple false labors where it seemed like it was early labor, but they didn’t progress to the point of going to the hospital.

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Braxton Hicks generally aren’t regular try having some water and move around a bit if you’re still having the contractions you could be in labour

Can Braxton Hicks be regular??🤨

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