linuxChique
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Braxton Hicks
Posted: 08-31-04 11:52am
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I think I just had my first braxton hicks
contraction! It felt different from the
cramps i've been talking about. It was
deep inside me and felt just like I would
imagine my uterus contracting to feel
like. It lasted about 20 seconds and then
went away.
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TiNaBo0314
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Location: Maryland
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Posted: 08-31-04 20:19pm
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I started getting them at around 22 weeks
so it could be 
its ur body practicing for the real thing,
and u will get them a lot of time if u are
bending down to get things or straining
yourself, so take it easy lol ut congrats,
u only have a few short months 
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bellax0x
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Posted: 08-31-04 20:49pm
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Yay! Erin! That means there shouldnt be
toomuch longer! Lol
<3
gaby
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Michelle1337
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Posted: 08-31-04 20:56pm
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Ahh! If your having them that means that
I may have them soon. Its so weird, it
seems like just yesterday the doctors were
telling me I was 14 weeks. And now i'm
almost 24!! Wow..
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linuxChique
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Posted: 08-31-04 23:02pm
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Gaby,
it better be much more longer!!! I want
tru to bake for at least twelve more weeks
before showing up!
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littlehunybunny
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Posted: 09-01-04 13:14pm
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Early bird for braxton hicks! I think I
was about 25-26 weeks when I started
getting them, though I only get them if I
strain my body. Which I hardly ever
do!!!
Stacey
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linuxChique
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Posted: 09-01-04 13:18pm
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I'm 23 weeks, so its not that much earlier
than you.
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nikki_caro
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Posted: 09-01-04 15:48pm
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Well im 30 weeks and I got them last
night! I was laying in bed and I kept
feeling my lower stomach tighten up, then
let go. Then tighten up! Then let go
lol. It was like that *all* night til I
finally got up in the morning. I could
even feel it with my hand on my stomach.
It was so weird. I kept trying to figure
out what it was. I was like "whats wrong
with my stomach!" lol now I just have
cramps in my lower stomach. But the hicks
were only at night
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insurancegirl
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Posted: 09-01-04 16:05pm
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Last edited by insurancegirl on 11-26-04 15:40pm; edited 1 time in total
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littlehunybunny
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Posted: 09-01-04 17:14pm
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Yeah erin, I keep forgetting you are so
far along already! Wow! Haha!! So
yeah, not early bird. But I really don't
get them anyway, just had them a couple
times when I walked too much.
Yeah nikkie, already 30 weeks! I can't
believe we made it this far! I'm 29 weeks
now.
Time sure flys doesn't it girls??
Gosh!!
Stacey
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kkmauricio
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Posted: 09-01-04 17:57pm
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I dont think that I have gotten them yet
and im 33 weeks maybe I just didnt know it
and I did lol!
But congrats
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FairyLexi
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What Exactly Do They Feel Like?
Posted: 09-01-04 18:49pm
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I've felt my lower stomach get harder then
loosen up but I thought that was just the
baby leaning against me, and another time
it felt like I had a cramp in my diaphram
but would braxton hicks be that high up?
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linuxChique
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Posted: 09-01-04 23:26pm
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Well according to some sources, you
actually get bh the whole time, but you
only start feeling them around week 25.
I'm not too sure about how accurate that
is, but if it is true, it makes sense that
you would start feeling them little by
little, very faintly, and the stronger.
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lusciouskiss16
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Posted: 09-02-04 08:30am
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What exactly are they? Ive never heard of
them..?!
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linuxChique
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Posted: 09-02-04 09:40am
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They are practice contractions. Your
uterine muscles contract and hold. They
serve to tone the muscles to make them
ready for real contractions that come with
labor.
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lusciouskiss16
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Posted: 09-02-04 09:41am
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Lol..Hmm..I see..I wonder where the name
comes from..
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linuxChique
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Posted: 09-02-04 10:25am
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The doctor that first wrote about them in
the 1890's.
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lusciouskiss16
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linuxChique
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Posted: 09-02-04 10:30am
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Haha, thanks..... I'm not really that
smart, my brain is just an bottomless pit
of useless info!
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lusciouskiss16
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Posted: 09-02-04 10:31am
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Haha..Wish it was like that for me..!!
Your lucky..!!!
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