https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 11 May 2026 03:29:52 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/braxton-hicks-how-did-you-know#post-682613 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:11:51 +0000 loveisstrange 682613@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine felt like menstrual cramps! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/braxton-hicks-how-did-you-know#post-682610 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:09:29 +0000 nikol 682610@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i started feeling them around 16 weeks! my uterus would just tighten and feel really hard for a few minutes, then go back to normal. kinda like a period cramp. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/braxton-hicks-how-did-you-know#post-682507 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:29:43 +0000 LazyLightning 682507@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had some dull menstrual cramps since about 25 weeks, my doctor told me they're braxton hicks. Then last week I started getting horrible, painful, burning cramps (like when you have the runs, kind of - they make you double over and sweat!). They'd last a minute or so every 10 or 15 minutes, they lasted an evening and overnight. My friend encouraged me to call the hospital so I did, went in for an NST and some other tests, only to be told it's just 'braxton hicks' and that some ladies experience them 'more intensely.' Yay! Hopefully yours won't hurt like that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/braxton-hicks-how-did-you-know#post-682359 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:40:31 +0000 MamaBehr 682359@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't feel them with my first pregnancy, but I got them ALL the time with my second. My belly would get CRAZY hard, all over, for a few seconds and then relax. I couldn't control it and I couldn't stop it. I'm sure I was having them all day long, but I felt them the most when I was driving home, probably because there was not too much going on and I could feel them. They didn't hurt, it just got really hard. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/braxton-hicks-how-did-you-know#post-682358 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:40:11 +0000 Boheme 682358@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@swedishfish: Yep, that's exactly it! I don't feel crampy or anything. My belly just feels REALLY hard. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/braxton-hicks-how-did-you-know#post-682341 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:34:45 +0000 rachiecakes 682341@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It wasn't until a pregnant friend was describing them after I had had DS that I knew that I'd had them. </p> <p>If I did a lot of walking I'd feel like my whole belly would tense up, hard all the way around. So much that I'd have to sit it out for a few minutes. I just thought I was getting a muscle cramps or something. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/braxton-hicks-how-did-you-know#post-682323 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:27:22 +0000 swedishfish 682323@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@grizz: does your entire belly get hard to the touch? I just noticed mine doing that and I wonder if it was a Braxton Hicks contraction. It's been about ten-fifteen minutes since it happened and my belly is "soft" again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/braxton-hicks-how-did-you-know#post-682223 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:45:04 +0000 BelugaBean 682223@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I actually didn't feel mine except maybe once and it was just a tightening. My doctor asked me when I was 39 weeks if I was having any BH contractions. I told her not really. She was feeling my stomach at that moment to make sure everything was okay and told me I was actually having one right then but I just wasn't feeling it. DH told me I had them a lot when he felt LO move but I couldn't feel those either. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/braxton-hicks-how-did-you-know#post-682222 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:44:39 +0000 blackbird 682222@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My OB said they can feel like menstrual cramps. I can't feel any tightening in my uterus, but I can feel the cramping. It feels like my period is coming, yuck. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/braxton-hicks-how-did-you-know#post-682216 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:43:19 +0000 Boheme 682216@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My OB asks me at every appointment if I'm experiencing Braxton Hicks contractions, but I'm really not sure! I do feel a tightening feeling sometimes, but it feels like its more LO curling up into a ball and staying there for a little while. What did yours feel like? </p>