Since about 17 weeks I've had weird feelings like mini-tightenings in my bump which I thought were baby rolling. Not at all painful - just weird. It had occurred to me that they could be Braxton Hicks but thought it was too early to be feeling them. They've carried on and I didn't think too much of it. Now 31 weeks.
I went into the hospital last night for reduced movements - heartrate and everything was fine but I could see on the monitor that when I was getting the weird "rolling/tightening" feelings the TOCO measure was increasing. It was happening regularly - every 5 minutes and going up to about 80-90 each time. The midwife noticed it as well and asked if I'd been having tightenings and if she could feel my tummy but it was soft when she did (not during one of the "episodes"). When we left she said the usual stuff about coming back if movements change again or if have any pain but also said to call if the tightenings got stronger or painful. It carried on overnight and into this morning but now I'm up seems to have stopped.
Anyone else had this or know what it could mean (if anything)? I'll ask at my next MW appt anyway. I've been assuming this baby will be late - FTM with a family history of late babies - but now wondering if I need to get my head around going into labour early. Or are regular Braxton Hicks normal? I thought I read somewhere that they should be pretty irregular.