Lots of braxton hicks or none at all, your experiences?

[Dozeyland]

I had early BH's with DD's pregnancy, and had a very efficient labour, i am nearly 27 weeks pregnant with DC and again have BHs strong, and every night, and also in the day but a lot more at night.

They seem stronger more early on 2nd time around. does this indicate much for labour?

I know its good practice for the uterus prior to labour, but a few friends of mine, havent had them or never have and had pretty pants labours...

Your experiences?

I had loads with dc1 and had a really rubbish induced labour ending in emcs.

I don't remember them at all with dc2 and dc3 both of which were pretty straightforward labours (as if there is such a thing )

So there you go: a very scientific survey of my pg, labour and birth history

None with DD at all during pregnancy, had lots of contractions 2 mins apart lasting at least a minute from before I was even in active labour, just a shame DD's head was in a bad position and she got stuck whilst pushing as I went from 3-10cm in around 5 hours which is not bad for a first time labour.

This time round I have been having occasional bouts after lots of walking/stress/when needing to pass urine or faeces and often lying down at night, will see how this one goes.

SIL has had 5 kids and said each time BH's got much stronger than the one before. Each of her labours were different and having strong BH's didn't neccessarily make it easier.

lol. just goes to show that pregnancy, labour is just unpredictable :)