You stomach has to get hard when you are pregnant because you have a baby inside you taking up all the room!

Hehe thanks, well its just weird that my tummy is only hard under my belly button and not all over.

I read that your tummy goes hard when you're having contractions as well.

Hey sxcy,
it's probably the top of your uterus- you should be able to feel that by now.
The hard bit will continue to rise above your pubic bone by about a centimetre a week- so if you are say, 16 weeks, it should be 'round about 16 cm from your pubic bone. (give or take)

the painless braxton hicks contractions that you're also talking about happen all the time during pregnancy- I didn't notice until very late in my last pregnancy, and I could only really feel it from the outside- my whole tummy would be hard. This time I can actually feel it starting sometimes, and know when it's finished-and i'm only 24 weeks !!!
I'm also getting kicked to death already, and kept awake at night too.
Feels like there's a baby horse in there, not a little girl !!!!!

Hey sxcy,
it's probably the top of your uterus- you should be able to feel that by now.
The hard bit will continue to rise above your pubic bone by about a centimetre a week- so if you are say, 16 weeks, it should be 'round about 16 cm from your pubic bone. (give or take)

the painless braxton hicks contractions that you're also talking about happen all the time during pregnancy- I didn't notice until very late in my last pregnancy, and I could only really feel it from the outside- my whole tummy would be hard. This time I can actually feel it starting sometimes, and know when it's finished-and i'm only 24 weeks !!!
I'm also getting kicked to death already, and kept awake at night too.
Feels like there's a baby horse in there, not a little girl !!!!!

How soon does your stomach start getting hard if pregnant?

I have the same thing; my stomach is hard and "lumpy" about 5 inches below the bellybutton. im only just about 8 weeks pregnant. Iv gained weight already. Im also worried something may be wrong, since i have abdominal tenderness and slight pain.Have you visited your doctor?

of course its normal. i can feel hardness under mine too

mines only hard when I lie on my back. I'm 25wks along, but it's been there since about 12ish (that's as far back as I remember). Just wait til the baby starts moving and you can just make a day of lying on you back watching baby kick up through! nothing in the world compares to it!

I actually had the same question and all of these responses answered it for me! phew! I have had some problems during pregnancy alot of bleeding happened in my 12th week and im now 17 weeks and cant feel the baby moving yet even though with my other 2 i could so i was worried.

I wanted to know how you could tell if your tummy is getting hard, i mean what hard feels like, but im not sure what my tummy felt like before, i've never sat around and pushed on it. It seems like it's hard, but i dont know. I took a pregnancy test a few weeks ago because when my fiance and i were having sex, It hurt about 2-3 inches below my belly button, so bad that i started crying.. cried for about 30 min from the sharp pain until i fell asleep. The pain continued anytime i put pressure on my stomach, just not as sharp, until about a week later the pain finally stopped. But my breast became very tender. I just recently had my period or so i believe was my period for the first time in about a year.. i was on depo. and i had it off and on, for about 2-4 days and it was never enough to even use anything really just spotting.. this time it lasted about three days but i had to use tampons.. so i figured i wasnt pregnant.. but my breast are still tender, if i put pressure on my stomach it is slightly tender.. so i just wanted to know where you would first feel the hardness on the sides or the middle... and how hard it would be..[sorry for the long post]