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

Yay! Erin! That means there shouldnt be toomuch longer! Lol

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gaby

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..

Gaby,

it better be much more longer!!! I want tru to bake for at least twelve more weeks before showing up!

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

I'm 23 weeks, so its not that much earlier than you.

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

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

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

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?

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.

What exactly are they? Ive never heard of them..?!

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.

Lol..Hmm..I see..I wonder where the name comes from..

The doctor that first wrote about them in the 1890's.

Your too smart..!! Lol..

Haha, thanks..... I'm not really that smart, my brain is just an bottomless pit of useless info!

Haha..Wish it was like that for me..!! Your lucky..!!!