I also posted this in the Pregnancy boards, because I wasn't sure where it fit.
Okay, this isn't like a "crazily hopeful" question, it's actual serious and I'm not just HOPING that I'm having contractions.
I'm really wondering if this could possibly be happening...
When I get BH, what I feel is simply a tightening in my abdomen. That's it. But sometimes I have a really achey, tight feeling on the sides of my uterus (like O pains, almost), and even moreso low in my pelvis (sometimes it hurts like gas pains- but no gas). But I don't have back pain WITH them, so I KNOW they're not "real" contractions, however...
Now, my wondering is if having been a RRL tea drinker (before the pg. and for the last month or so...religiously), if I'm not feeling contractions like someone else might, since I may have REALLY toned up that uterus. For example, RRL takes a lot of pain out of AF cramps for lots of women...and that also brings me to wonder if that's why I've been having such "slight" cramps...like I feel them but when I concentrate on them they go away (I usually get TERRIBLE cramps).
Does any of that make sense?? I know lots of women who have gone into labor painlessly (they never even knew they were having contractions until active labor), so that, too, makes me wonder. I mean, I'm sure it's FAR from my luck that I'd be one of them, but it still sparks the question, KWIM?
Okay, this isn't like a "crazily hopeful" question, it's actual serious and I'm not just HOPING that I'm having contractions.
I'm really wondering if this could possibly be happening...When I get BH, what I feel is simply a tightening in my abdomen. That's it. But sometimes I have a really achey, tight feeling on the sides of my uterus (like O pains, almost), and even moreso low in my pelvis (sometimes it hurts like gas pains- but no gas). But I don't have back pain WITH them, so I KNOW they're not "real" contractions, however...
Now, my wondering is if having been a RRL tea drinker (before the pg. and for the last month or so...religiously), if I'm not feeling contractions like someone else might, since I may have REALLY toned up that uterus. For example, RRL takes a lot of pain out of AF cramps for lots of women...and that also brings me to wonder if that's why I've been having such "slight" cramps...like I feel them but when I concentrate on them they go away (I usually get TERRIBLE cramps).
Does any of that make sense?? I know lots of women who have gone into labor painlessly (they never even knew they were having contractions until active labor), so that, too, makes me wonder. I mean, I'm sure it's FAR from my luck that I'd be one of them, but it still sparks the question, KWIM?
