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Due on Monday - tightenings?
Hi Ladies
need some help and advice here.... for the past few hours I have been getting really strong tightenings across the top of my abdomen and they increase in pain and go all round my stomach and into the my sides mainly my left side and also down into my legs but the pain in my legs feels more like the baby is laying on a nerve.
Most of the internet sites I find about contractions state that they start in your back but I only have a mild ache round the middle of my back where your bra line is and its not coming and going with the tightenings its more constant making me think its the way im sitting?
the tightenings are only 2-3 an hour so Im not to worried yet but with the internet and also my midwife saying they start in your back Im not sure if these could be the real thing or not?
The babies been engaged for weeks now and is sitting so low its really painful to walk .... Im also getting a weird pressure and pushing sensation in my bottom lol like Im on the loo feels really weird but not painful ...
so confused I hate not knowing whats happening so any help and advice would be extremely helpful
thanks in advance
need some help and advice here.... for the past few hours I have been getting really strong tightenings across the top of my abdomen and they increase in pain and go all round my stomach and into the my sides mainly my left side and also down into my legs but the pain in my legs feels more like the baby is laying on a nerve.
Most of the internet sites I find about contractions state that they start in your back but I only have a mild ache round the middle of my back where your bra line is and its not coming and going with the tightenings its more constant making me think its the way im sitting?
the tightenings are only 2-3 an hour so Im not to worried yet but with the internet and also my midwife saying they start in your back Im not sure if these could be the real thing or not?
The babies been engaged for weeks now and is sitting so low its really painful to walk .... Im also getting a weird pressure and pushing sensation in my bottom lol like Im on the loo feels really weird but not painful ...
so confused I hate not knowing whats happening so any help and advice would be extremely helpful
thanks in advance
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Have you ever had a cramp in your leg?
That's what your womb will be doing, so imagine how that would feel. I have had 3 labours with the pains in my back, and 1 with womb pains. I thought the back labours were worse.
Put a sanitary towel on, keep an eye for blood mucous coming out, or your waters breaking, other signs of labour.
Let us know how you get on and try not to panic as your labour progresses, as staying calm makes it easier.
Good luck!
Thanks for replying ...
Still no change this morning although I did manage to sleep last night so I am presuming they are Braxton Hicks or very very early ones and they have gone down to about 1-2 an hour now ...
Yeah I've been getting cramps in my leg for a few weeks now cause babs is on a nerve so now Im dreading the real contractions if they feel like that lol although cramps have a weird effect on me they make me scream laughing and dance around rather than cry with pain so this labour will be err different if they have the same effect lol ...
gonna try the ST now see if I get my show ... fingers crossed I go on time its so uncomfy now lol (for me anyway little man is showing he is very comfy in there!)
Thanks again! xxx
Hiya, yey, not long now. From reading descriptions of labour I think everyone varies on what it feels like but it sounds like you might be in early stages. I was like that with Mia but it lasted for 3 days before she arrived. The midwife told me to sit on a gym ball if you've got one and gently bounce on it to help move things along. I didn't have one so I'm not sure if that works. Good luck, I'm all excited for you. Feeling super broody now. Lol. x
D - Day is here ... still nothing lol
Having a few period like pains that are coming and going but nothing regular or painful and still getting the tightenings but I have a strange feeling it wont be today...
Got my sweep and stretch tomorrow morning so hopefully that may kick start a few things!!!
Don't get me wrong, it was very sore, but it was the rush of love I got as soon as she was born that made me want another. I now have 4 children, lol!
well the braxton hicks are back but now Im extremely emotional I just feel like I wanna burst out crying (even at corrie lol) and my nipples are sore/tingling dont know if this has anything to with it lol or im just reading into things too much?!?
the baby is still moving round like a ninja in there thou hasnt kept still all day I feel bruised on the inside lol
Thanks for all your replies girls really appreciated!
Im still here with a bump!!!!
Was supposed to have a sweep yesturday which I thought would 'get things moving' but when midwife came over she said babs had moved from being engaged to now being Oblique (never heard of this before but apparently it means his head was just outside the pelvis and slightly to the left) and she said she couldnt perform the sweep and promptly sent me the hospital for a scan!
This happened last week when I seen her she said the baby was breach and sent me for a scan and both last week and yestrday at the scan turned out baby was still engaged and the sonographer said he hasnt moved for weeks as he was engaged from 35 weeks...
so an hour on the bus to the hospital and another back having my 7th scan in the last few weeks still didnt get the little monkey moving!!!
Since my local midwife obviously cant tell an ar*e from a head I decided to book my sweep at the hospital on friday hopefully I will have my monkey on Saturday cause thats my nanas birthday and my mum has said since I got pregnant she bet I would have him on her birthday or fathers day either one!
Hope all you ladies are well xxx