@kitkatsm13 so braxton hicks, for me anyway, mine were completely painless but uncomfortable as all hell. My belly would get rock hard and I'd get short of breath. I had a back labor so my contractions in the beginning felt like normal back pain, only i couldn't get it to go away. I would try sitting in different positions and it wouldn't stop. Then once my contractions got stronger the pain would be SO intense and it would come and go. Like contractions do. I have NO idea what normal labor feels like. But if you have a back labor its NOTHING like a normal labor and you wouldn't even know whata going on if it didn't click in your head. It didn't click with me and i didn't put the 2 together until i was in active labor and ready to go ti the hospital.

With my first I never felt BH. But with number two I definitely felt them. It's like radiating menstrual cramps