OMG! WHY DO I PASS GAS AND HAVE BH ALL DAY!!!!!!!!!

[Chena4]

I have been having BH dailly for the last 2 weeks and it's mainly when I'm sitting up. Not when I walk, cleaning moving, or laying down? Now this is my 3 pregnancy I didn have this with the other two. The midwife just looks at me like "And?" when I ask her about it. I have them every hour. Now more that 2 or 3 though. I just want to know why. I drink water, ok ok I drink Kool Aid all day. I work at home on the phone. So I dont know.

On top of that I pass gas all day long. I have been watching what I eat. I learn that garlic gives me bad gas, I love that , well I used to not eat garlic. So I stopped eating garlic. Every time I take like 5 step or breath 5 breaths I pass gas! It's really bad. It's all day and all night! I didn't have this before either. What is going on with my body?!?

Does this happen to anyone else?

[Abraisme]

Both are totally normal.  My BH get more pronounced with each pregnancy.  I'll often get several an hour while doing nothing at all.

[justamama]

I have been having both, too. The gas in my case has been from too much caffeine, dairy, and meat. I've been changing my diet a lot over the last couple weeks to help combat that and it has gotten better. 

Braxton-hicks are a pain, too. The heat seems to be making mine worse that they were at this point in other pregnancies. If they get too frequent or painful, I'll have a small glass of wine and that calms them right down. 

[Chena4]

So does they baby move around a lot too after the BH?

[justamama]

Sometimes, but this baby if awake is constantly moving anyway. I swear the other day I simultaneously got kicked under my left rib, in my bladder, and on my cervix. O_O It's insanity.