Monday, May 17, 2010

Glucose screening & Braxton Hicks

I passed my 1-hr glucose tolerance screening, so that means no gestational diabetes (and no 3-hr test). Yay!

I was reading "What to Expect When You're Expecting" last night and came upon the part about Braxton Hicks contractions. So what I've been attributing to the baby rolling over (which was a sensation of pressure from the top of my uterus moving to the bottom) was probably actually a Braxton Hicks contraction. Apparently you can start feeling them after 20 weeks of pregnancy. They are just practice contractions for the real thing in a few months. Luckily, mine aren't painful :).

1 comment:

  1. they begin getting recognizable in later being pregnant phases. it is necessary that one acknowledge them and make the excellence between them and early preterm labour indicators. Self prognosis is not prompt. If the pregnant lady has crossed her thirty seventh week of being pregnant and there are extra than 4 contractions an hour, you want to search medical assist. inside two weeks of your due date, these contractions can be nearer collectively and extra painful. They play a job wiskinny the ripening of your cervix consequently of which it slowly turns into soft, skinny and dilates rather much extra - which known as pre-labor.

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