Its probley getting hard due to bloating.

Yep definitely bloating. your uterus is still tucked wayyyy far inside your pelvic bone. I thought my belly was getting hard and that i was showing at around 8 weeks but boy was i wrong lol

I'm 5 months now and my uterus has popped out but i'm certainly still not showing although now its baby not bloat!
There's a pic so you can see what i mean
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/5977/bell yshot20weeks1hu6.png

Oh by the way I highly doubt your having any contractions. My uterus is up past my bellybutton now at just over 20 weeks and it feels kind of hard....although at 4 weeks like i said above its certainly just bloating since its not your uterus

I didn't say I was having contractions?

Your poll asks if your belly gets hard other then during contractions so I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that you thought maybe thats why your belly was hard

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I was confused too.

Ok i'm still not sure what your asking then, but either way no your stomach being hard is no cause for concern. if you are worried about something though just make an appt with your OBGYN and they will be sure to answer all your questions and set your mind at ease. Thats what they're there for

i just didn't know what it could be I knew it wasn't contractions though..

Like I said, just thought from the poll you might be thinking that. With this being your third pregnancy I would imagine they consider you high risk and will monitor you closely.

If you let your stomach muscles relax it wont be hard.

When my whole body is relaxed riht before I go to sleep it is still hard.

i say you're bloated.

you are bloated. You wouldn't show this early. your baby is the size of an apple seed. You are heavily bloated, your stomach will feel harder from it. Even if you had 6 babies in there you still wouldn't be showing yet. We've all been there with the preggo bloat. It hits almost immediately and lasts most of the first trimester as you get to your 3rd month, its about then you start to actually show.