https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:50:11 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-having-contractions-ie-braxton-hicks-or-real#post-611986 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:59:24 +0000 Dandelion 611986@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been having BH for weeks...I can't exactly say when they started...sometime early in the 3rd trimester. I'm ready for the real ones to get this over with! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-having-contractions-ie-braxton-hicks-or-real#post-611874 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:34:12 +0000 MamaBehr 611874@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pumpkinspice I had them every day, pretty regularly from 30-ish weeks on. They were totally BH contractions and I do think that it might have been water related. I had them up until DS was born, three weeks early... So, good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-having-contractions-ie-braxton-hicks-or-real#post-611740 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:53:44 +0000 Crisark 611740@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@travellingbee: I have them daily now without fail and I'm 32 weeks 2 days. I didn't experience this with my other two pregnancies either. I was checked at my last appt and I wasn't dilated thankfully. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-having-contractions-ie-braxton-hicks-or-real#post-611579 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:06:51 +0000 travellingbee 611579@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I started having them around 17 weeks. They really used to freak me out. By 30 weeks I was having them several times an hour all day. Now at 39 weeks, I have them all the time and they are downright painful, but still, no baby. Sigh. I did go into L &amp;D once at 35 weeks because they were 3 minutes apart for 3 hours but I wasn't dilating so they meant nothing. Can't wait to be done with these constant contractions! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-having-contractions-ie-braxton-hicks-or-real#post-609054 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 09:16:20 +0000 Crisark 609054@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tororojo: Oh you can have them!! lol I get them now every single day without fail.<br /> @StbHisMrs: Goodness as early as 12 weeks?? That's no fun at all. I'd be a nervous wreck. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-having-contractions-ie-braxton-hicks-or-real#post-607735 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 10:05:07 +0000 StbHisMrs 607735@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I started having BH before 20 weeks with my last pregnancy, the painful non-stop contractions started at around 22-23 weeks and turned out to be preterm labor. By 29 weeks I was on bedrest until 37 weeks. I went one day past my due date. </p> <p>This time BH started early, before 12 weeks. My dr said that is "normal" for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-having-contractions-ie-braxton-hicks-or-real#post-606688 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:09:33 +0000 tororojo 606688@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My due date was yesterday and I don't think I've had any, BH included. Waaaaah! (can I have yours?) Sorry you're uncomfortable, that's no fun! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-having-contractions-ie-braxton-hicks-or-real#post-606669 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:03:22 +0000 Crisark 606669@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks for all the responses ladies!!!<br /> I'm 32 weeks tomorrow and I've been contracting so bad that yesterday during my NST they pulled me off the monitor to do a cervical check and pre term labor tests.<br /> Luckily it was negative that I'd be going into labor in the next two weeks and my cervix was closed but these contractions are painful and are all the time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-having-contractions-ie-braxton-hicks-or-real#post-598480 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:20:04 +0000 Tidybee 598480@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I only got BH at 39w5d. They never stopped and eventually turned into real contactions, and DD was born 2 days later on her due date. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-having-contractions-ie-braxton-hicks-or-real#post-598251 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:06:31 +0000 photojane 598251@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had BH from about 20 weeks on. At about 33 weeks they became pretty regular, and at 37ish weeks I was having them all the time. I thought this meant I would go early, but nope! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-having-contractions-ie-braxton-hicks-or-real#post-598218 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:53:25 +0000 aprk 598218@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haven't had any yet at 36 weeks. Not sure if that's good or bad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-having-contractions-ie-braxton-hicks-or-real#post-598207 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:46:37 +0000 jaguar 598207@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm having some already - really painful, but not regular enough to be the real deal. OB confirmed BH &amp; said some women find them more uncomfortable than others. (Boo!) I'm 32+3. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-having-contractions-ie-braxton-hicks-or-real#post-594232 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:29:30 +0000 shopaholic 594232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I started feeling BHs around 20 weeks. I *think* I hadn't first real contraction the other day at 38 weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-having-contractions-ie-braxton-hicks-or-real#post-594186 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:17:41 +0000 Crisark 594186@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks ladies! </p> <p>I mean the ones I have don't always hurt but it's enough that I stop and can def feel them. My DH had his hand on my stomach at the time of a contraction and he was so surprised that my stomach got so hard and everything so I know I'm not imagining things. lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-having-contractions-ie-braxton-hicks-or-real#post-594174 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:14:23 +0000 matador84 594174@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i was having BH around 25 weeks.<br /> i didn't have any real until my water broke! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-having-contractions-ie-braxton-hicks-or-real#post-594152 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:07:18 +0000 blackbird 594152@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I still haven't noticed any at 35 weeks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/when-did-you-start-having-contractions-ie-braxton-hicks-or-real#post-594125 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:01:21 +0000 Crisark 594125@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been having noticeable and semi painful contractions for the past week.<br /> I'm currently 31weeks 3 days.<br /> I had a NST yesterday and contracted every 5 min or so the whole hour and a half I was hooked up. The OB said it was probably my positioning and to drink and eat a little more.<br /> They did subside after I left but I still had at least 5 the rest of the day.<br /> Now, sitting at working I just had another one.<br /> They don't seem concerned but I didn't have contractions this early with my other two pregnancies and just kinda wonder how normal it is to really be feeling them this soon. </p>