Contractions??

I feel silly asking but how do I tell the difference between Braxton hicks and real contractions last night and today I’ve had really intense cramps in my lower belly and some of them my belly get tight and some just feel like intense pain that takes my breath away and I wanna cry and I’ve drank water and I’ve done the resting time with my feet up and it won’t go away I never had contractions with my first baby so I feel lost

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So I'm currently having contractions like hard core and my stomach gets extremely tight i get 10x my normal menstrual cramping and pressure on my butt hole and im balling my eyes out

If they don’t come every 5 mins lasting one minute for atleast an hour they are not labor pains. Real contractions are more felt with back pain and you can hardly walk or talk. Also can stop when you change positions regular ones won’t

@Victoria Aguilar the only pressure I have is in my cervix feeling when I have one but the pain feels like a really really bad cramp sensation

@Lori i would get seen tbh better safe than sorry I say

@Victoria Aguilar I’m gonna have to they were really painful last night and still continuing today I don’t think false ones should do this

@Lori for some false can be others it's not i hate they say BH are not painful bc they definitely can be

Could be lightning crotch which is like shooting nerve pain but goes away soon after from the pelvic area starting to make room

@Jenn I definitely had that with my daughter I don’t remember bad menstrual cramps hit each pregnancy is so different

My Braxton contractions are belly tightness nd my contractions are period like cramps big difference but when the real contractions intensify they will feel like period cramps on 100x currently pregnant with baby #7 nd last month was experience Braxton contractions nd currently having period cramps I’m 36 weeks

I’ve had period like cramps bad the past day and half I’m 35 weeks

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