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Not painful at all. Just my uterus tightening. I've had them since about 16 weeks pregnant and they last about a minute or less for me. Getting them more in this final trimester.

I had so many! They're just a tightening of your belly for a minute or so... and I had them every few minutes - SO ANNOYING!

I've just recently started noticing them...around 23-24 weeks. They don't hurt at all - just a gradual tightening, belly feels hard, then a gradual relaxing, and belly is squishy again. Definitely a similar 'wave' idea to what a labor contraction will eventually feel like.

I had BH without realizing it for the last month or so of my pregnancy. To me it felt like LO was pressing against my lower abdomen. I figured she was running out of room and trying to stretch out. I didn't know that it was actually contractions and not just baby movements until I had a NST.

I started getting them at 27 weeks. At first, they were really random and were just a tightening and hardening of my uterus- if you look at your stomach when you are having them, you can see your stomach take on a new shape. They didn't hurt. The general rule of thumb is that if you are getting them, drink a lot of water and rest.

My OB instructed me to call if I had them every 15 mins (or more frequently). The big thing about BH is that sometimes they are difficult to distinguish from real contractions (which is accompanied by low back pain or uterine cramping).

For me, over the course of 3 weeks, they became more frequent and they never went away with water or rest. Then I developed real contractions (which for me, felt like a BH contraction with menstrual cramps).