Abdominal pain

[mamaneenie]

Anyone else been getting this? I saw in my babycentre newsletter it was ligaments stretching.

I didn't get this with my first. I am 18 weeks and for the past couple of days, I have been getting pains "under the bump" nothing too painful, just rather uncomfortable. Especially if I have been sitting on the floor, something I try to avoid, but I do work in the toddlers church and have a 3 yo that I sit down on the floor and play cars and legos with.

Just wondering if anyone else has had it.

 

[katelyn]

I had round ligament pain in a few brief spurts. I found that laying down and putting a cold compress on it for a little while was about the only thing that would make it feel better once it started. It could be that your baby's position or growth is making the muscles stretch faster than they did in your first pregnancy.

 

[sammipher]

Yep I have it off and on and got concerned about it cause it almost felt like I was going to start my monthly..so I freaked out the first time...the doc reassured me it was just muscles stretching and that it was normal..not to get concerned unless I seen blood...so far so good....but, I admit it can be a bit stressful..cause this is our first child and when I do get those abdominal pains I worry about well what if it is something wrong...yesterday I was sooo freaked out cause my tummy was hurting and it woke me up out of a dead sleep...I was terrified...It felt just like when I use to pass gallstones..and you will all laugh at this...it turned out to be just gas...I felt like a total idiot afterwards cause I called my hubby at work and everything getting his opinion if I should bother the baby doc....first time jitters I guess.

 

[mamaneenie]

Don't worry, I get 2nd time jitters too. Although because this is my 2nd, everyone just assumes that I am confident and know what I am doing. NOOOOOO, not true. I'm even more worried about this one than I was the first, because first one was emergency c/s, and this time around I'm going to try for natural (or at least vaginal) birth. So I am more worried this time, because I know first hand that things can go wrong, and it's like I'm doing it the first time all over again.


As for the growth spurt, I was overweight with this pregnancy and so far the baby has been filling out the fat bits. ROFL at myself. Although apparently my hips have spread this time, they didn't do that the first time (or not so much anyway) I have no idea, but hope this baby doesn't get too big. The first one was 7lb 2oz. So that's a nice healthy size.

 

[PegasusOnFire]

I had those pains to, still do sometimes and I am nearing 37 weeks! Last night I thought I might be starting to have contractions, turned out to be really bad gas, lol.