Braxton Hicks

I was curious as to when people starting feeling BH contractions with their twin pregnancy. Also, if you have already delivered, how far along were you at delivery?

 

I started getting them at 24 weeks.

 

QUOTE(angelsamb @ Feb 27 2009, 09:55 AM) [snapback]1207854[/snapback]
I started getting them at 24 weeks.



What do they feel like? I am 24 weeks and have not had any yet. I think.

 

I've been having contractions since 13 or 14 weeks. When I get up I get one. It might start in one spot and feel really hard and then it spreads throughout the rest of your stomach and it's all hard for a few seconds. Or sometimes I don't notice it until my whole stomach is hard and tight. I don't drink nearly as much water as I should and that is probably why I feel so many. I've been working on my water intake though as I don't want to go to the hospital because of it. With my son I never felt a contraction until they broke my water though.

I've heard some people confuse them with the babies kicking or moving. So this might be the case with you but I deffinately wouldn't hope for them.

 

I delivered at 31w6d and I never had any at all.

 

I started feeling them pretty early in this pregnancy (before 20 wks), but then again, that was while I was still feeling like the Invincible Pregnant Woman. Once I realized that this was NOT a normal pregnancy and I needed to chill, they subsided. Now, I get some sporadic ones, but they don't come on too heavy unless I'm overdoing it physically or I'm dehydrated. I truly think our bodies tell us what they need if we just tune in a little bit.

Eve

 

I also had them pretty early, probably starting between 18-20 weeks. I delivered via scheduled c-section at 37w4d.

 

I have had them from 16 weeks. 3rd Pregnancy. I had them early on with both my singleton pregnancys too, and they went to 10 and 7 days overdue.
BTW, they say they don't hurt, but I find them very uncomfortable.

 

I had them starting around 27 weeks. I would get them from getting up from a sitting position but also when the babies moved sporadically. Movement can bring them on even if you are sitting still. Since about 32 weeks I have them all day and night long - I am so used to them now that I sometimes don't realize it is happening unless I randomly feel my stomach - they used to freak me out. I have a scheduled c-section for 38 weeks on March 10th.

 

Mine started around 16 weeks....on bedrest at 21 weeks and constant from there on out. I delivered at 31.6 weeks.

 

I was 25 weeks when I started feeling them and delivered at 39 weeks. :good:

 

My experience is exactly the same as Courtney's. I've been having them since about 15 weeks; my doc said it's not unusual to have them so early in a twin pregnancy. Plus, she said, I know what they feel like from my last pregnancy, so I can identify them easily. They strike whenever I get up quickly from sitting or lying down. They also strike when I'm overdoing it physically. Yesterday I assembled a bed (with help), and I was contracting the entire time and off and on for a few hours after. I try to look at them as canaries in my own personal coal mine; they let me know in no uncertain terms that I need to back off and rest.

 

I started feeling something at 10 weeks... BUT it was extremely sporadic and NOT every day. A little part of my stomach would harden. It was probably more just uterine irritability. They became more often and more of my stomach would harden. Fortunately I knew what was going on because my sis just went thru preterm labor. Finally around mid to late dec...between 17-20 weeks the docs started paying attention and were shocked at how often they were occuring. I kept trying to explain it to them. So i've been on meds to slow contractions for a long time now. I'm still doing ok though, and no cervical change the last time they checked.

 

Mine started around 16-18 weeks this time. For some reason it happens most when I have to pee (sorry) .