Is that how it’s written? I’m not sure, but I think so. I also have no desire to look it up, so we are just rolling with it…
Okay, I looked it up. No hyphen after all, but the letters were correct: Braxton Hicks.
Tonight, I experienced my first known Braxton Hicks contraction. For those not in the know already, it’s supposedly a sort of preparatory contraction that the uterus does well in advance of actual labor and contractions. I think they help sort some things out, possibly including encouraging the baby to get into the right position for birth. (Because those inversions I have been doing aren’t fun enough. :P)
Whatever the case, I had my first known one tonight(!). I say it that way, because the midwife said I might not notice their happening, so they may have happened already and been happening for quite some time, I’m guessing at a lesser degree.
Tonight, I was starting to walk toward the bathroom (to use it, of course), when I felt what seemed at first like the baby stretching out, but ended up covering too much surface area to make sense. I paused and paid attention. It was like the baby was sideways, but also completely flat against my skin… I touched my belly and knew almost instantly what it was. The entire belly was rock solid in a clench. I even had my husband feel it and tap on it to share the experience. Goofy, perhaps, but I didn’t care. We’re in this together, whether he likes it or not. Haha 😛
Anyway, it was cool and weird. It didn’t hurt, but it wasn’t comfortable, to be sure. It also almost made me pee myself, because, as I mentioned, I had been already on my way to use the bathroom and very much needed to go. Fortunately, I held it together and made it to the bathroom without accident.
I did, of course, send the midwife a message, proclaiming what had just happened. I have been kind of on the lookout for them, so I guess I was relieved to have found one (versus just wondering if they’d been happening in secret and I actually wasn’t much aware of what was going on in my body [which would have been harder to believe, given how crazy aware I seem to be all the time already, and especially during this pregnancy]).
Anyway, so, that happened. Good thing, I think. Though, I’ll hold for the midwife’s comment to conclude anything.
At that, goodnight!
God, make us well, please, and keep us safe. Thank you for our home and our family. In your name, I pray. Amen.
Post-a-day 2024
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