No Braxton Hicks Contractions?

You can totally have them and not even know. It'll be like you whole stomach just got rock hard and then releases. sometimes all you will feel is slight muscle twitching. My Braxton Hicks didn't start till last week - some ppl never experience them! It is not an indicator of anything! I know with the first one it is nerve wracking. Every little move at this point makes you go "oh is this it?!" Give it another week or two, but even if you never feel a thing it doesn't mean anything. Congrats!!!!! It is so exciting and there is nothing in the world like your first look at that precious new little one.

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Braxton hicks contractions can be different for everyone. With my first I would get them strong and hard a few times thinking I was in labor. I would get to the doctor only to find out they weren't the "real thing." Yet when I went into actual labor and my contractions were a minute every five minutes, I couldn't feel a thing.

It is natural to fear a C-section. I can't really recommend anything that will guarantee a natural delivery as I am sure no one can. But can say that as long as your doc is checking you out and nothing seems to be wrong, chances are you'll be fine when it comes time to deliver.

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My girlfriend amazed me, when she was prego with her first she would brag that she didnt have any. I got them bad with all three. She had her first one which broke her water two days after her dd. So yes it is possible to go your whole pregnancy without feeling them. That wasnt just a freak thing for her either. she had her second last august and the samething happened. two days after her dd she had one hicks and that broke her water!! good luck and hang in there!!

L.,

It could be that you have a high enough pain tolerance that you're not feeling them. I know I have a high pain tolerance and with my son I dilated to 6 cm at home feeling like I was having really bad cramps. He wound up being an almost-not-quite emergency C-section. My daughter was a planned C-section and as they were prepping me for the surgery the docs looked at me and said, "Do you know you're having contractions right now?" I didn't feel a thing.

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M.

I can't remember exactly, but I don't think I felt any really regular baxton hicks contractions until a couple weeks before my due date. Every once in a while I would feel small ones, just kinda a tightening of the belly muscles, no pain, just kinda like a muscle twitch but it lasts longer. Starting a couple weeks before my due date they were always kinda in the background with a good n' painful one every now and then.