Definate TMI.. toilet related ;)

[jamakin]

I am so embarassed to be posting this, but i have no one else to ask...

The last 2-3 days i have had increased bowl movements, i've gone from being blocked up, to going like 3 times a day.
What does this mean??
Should i be worried?
I don't remeber having anything like this with DS, and don't really have any other symptoms to suggest a tummy bug.
What should i do?

TIA

[Ryatha]

Just a few questions...
have you changed your diet at all lately?
Are you getting any other symptoms like BH's or a sore back?

I know when I was that far along sometimes I would be blocked up but other times it was going all the time.

hopefully it is nothing, and it is just your pregnant body playing games!

[Karla]

I have experienced the same thing in the last week or so. Gone from feeling like I needed to go but couldn't to having quite a lot of movement. How far along are you? I have read in a few places that it could just be your body preparing for the birth.

[LittleOnes]

with DD1, when this happened to me it signalled I wasn't far off birth. I've had it happen again myself this week going from constant constipation for the last 6 months or more to suddenly going at minimum 2 or 3 times daily for the last 3 or 4 days. Hoping it's a sign that the end is near based on my own previous experience but who knows! Good luck!

[Linzy]

Yes!! Some days I don't go at all, somedays it's two days in a row..then yesterday I'm sitting in Epping Plaza just tucking into a nice quiche with my inlaws when all of a sudden my colon decided to have a fit. I had to gallop sideways in a very pregnant way (trying not to frown or look like I was on a mission) all the way down the other end of the plaza in agony with my pelvic girdle pain to get to the toilet as I knew it was going to be one of those pressurized torpedos that no amount of wriggling or meditating in my seat was going to stop. I made it..just. Then when I got home, same thing! Today back to normal no sign of any sudden torpedos, of course that'd be right.

I do remember with my son however, that I had the runs overnight and the next day I went into labour. But yesterday I put it down to a punch in the colon from she who shall soon be named

[LittleOnes]

Linzy, love your comment re shopping on tuesdays. Cracks me up! And the description of your episode in Epping plaza... I haven't been caught out (as in out of the house) with that problem but I have had it at home and can imagine the trauma it would cause if I was out and about and struck with such an incredible urge!