tight uterus/womb symptom?!

Gatica

I posted this on another thread but I think might get more input on its own one.

Was in A&E early Monday morning after worrying about some womb tightness and reduction in fetal movement.

I'd been getting really good movement when relaxing in the evening for bedtime over the last few days, but yesterday just barely got 1 or 2. Then woke up this morning 4.30am, not feeling movement and with a really solid womb. Decided to get a glass of cold water and some cereal and a bit of dark chocolate, but nothing. No change for about an hour, so decided to wake up my OH to go get it checked out at A&E. Just as I was lying down there for the doppler it started to relax so was hard to explain the tightness to the midwife and doctor. They checked the heartbeat and everything else was fine too, so they said it was either Braxton Hicks or just stretching/growing pains (though I'd no pain, so I don't really get it).

I looked up Braxton Hicks but that's supposed to only last seconds/minutes whereas mine was over an hour, and it felt like I'd sucked in my stomach and was holding it in, except that it was the womb doing it itself. I poked it around and it was like a football inside, my stomach looked flatter on the outside rather than bulging out like normal when it's relaxed. There was no pain or anything else weird.

Last night I again noticed it tightening but nowhere near as hard as it was that first time. It was just a little firmer and only lasted minutes or seconds at a time this time, no pain and today it's all feeling grand. Baby's moving lots all the time so I'm not worried. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this.

lazygal

How far along are you? It could be the baby shifting position. My first was transverse and my stomach looked and felt tight a lot of the time-in any pictures I don't look as pregnant as I felt at the time, right up to the birth. On my second I had a couple of days of what you described, and it was the baby turning from breech to head down.

Gatica

only 20 weeks at the time, so was told shouldn't be worrying about movements just yet, but she's so active I can't help but wonder when she's not moving as much.
I'd a few sporadic tightenings yesterday when I went swimming, so don't know if activity brings it on a little...:( hope not, as I really enjoy staying active.