Period pain/ligament pain/baby engaging? How is it that I have no idea? LOL

[Janie]

Thanks guys. I feel a bit better after the shower, it seems to have settled. Still a bit achy and a bit of lower back pain, but not the real cramps I was getting before. Hopefully it will stay that way! Our Calmbirth instructor told us the other night that if you can ignore it, and it goes away it's not labour . Obviously our situation might be different, if I really think I'm in labour, I can't afford to ignore it! But if it's just prelabour then I don't want to get carried away

Yep, if it comes back and gets worse, or hangs around I will call my Ob

[stacey83]

im ready to pop any day now... and ive been getting these bad period like cramps for the past 4 weeks.

Just even more frequent now, im getting really over it and just want my labour to start and hurry up and have my baby, im sick of preparing myself for it, and feeling like the pains are getting worse and i think im in labour, but then they ease off again!!!

So this is my second pregnancy too, and my first i went into premature labour at 34 weeeks i had my son so i dont know wether its just a normal thing. One of my friends that just had her second baby thought she was going into labour so many times before she actually did, so its the same i guess.

Its crap cos im sick of the pain of them and im getting lots of aching in my pelvis as his head is engaged, and i get the sharpest pains!!!


So i think your in the same boat as me, you may have a few more weeks to put up with it hun! Just take care of yourself and try not to over do things!

[*Beema*]

Glad to ehar it is calming down hun, if ou get a chance rest up, put your legs etc up high to take the pressure off your cervix as well, every bit counts, and every day counts as you know

How have your CTG's been? have you had another U/S? It is fabulous to see you are still baking away
xxoo

[Inanna]

Janie it really is quite normal in a pregnancy that goes to term to have these feelings & sensations in the third trimester (sometimes earlier)...

It's good advice that if you can work through it and it goes then it's probably just that. Your situation is more tenuous & I know you will listen to your intuition. But I wanted to also assure you that what you describe is very normal & common...