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[super mom]

i am pregnant with number 7 and fourth baby. my uterus has tipped backwards over each pregnancy that has gone to term. it is tipped way towards my back.
this baby now 5 months along is sitting so low that it sits on my intestines and i can't go bm for a few days if not most of the week and when i do it is hard to do so, (not constipated) but hard to do bm, i have tried moving while trying togo but that doesn't work and if i wait i get a major belly ache.


is there any advice that anybody can give me? i have not yet gotten to the doc for my five month check but i need releif now.it is so uncormfortable

 

[Assisi]

I also have a tilted uterus and the only advice I have ever been given (when pregnant or otherwise) is to lie on my tummy more Not sure if that's really practical at 5months

Sorry I'm not able to help!

Dear Lord, Thank you for the gift of this new life you have given to supermom's family. Please relieve her from the discomfort she is experiencing from her tilted uterus and protect the baby she carries.

 

[Hadassah]

have the doctors ever suggested you eat more fibrous foods and add in more liquids, such as 'shakes' or fruit drinks to assist in that area?

My uterus is slightly tipped, and since I have/had endometriosis, I would hit times around the 1-3rd day of menses that it was difficult to make BM, it just wouldn't pass because of the pain and pressure, but then when it decided to 'ease' I was going three times every day (sorry, TMI)..

I found when I introduced more nutritious liquids and fiber, it made things a little easier then, maybe it will also now.

 

[RoseofLima]

Take at least a cal/mag supplement at night before bed with at least 400mg of mag.

Do you haave a Boppy? you can make a little "nest" for your tummy and lie on your tummy.

 

[super mom]

thnks for all the advice it does help to some degree. the change in diet does little for anyting and i can't get comroftable in any postion now tummy back sides or anything unless i am burying myself in the back of the couch

 

[jgonz]

Another thing to try:
Doing the "cat stretches" every day, several times a day. You get on your hands & knees, then arch your back way up like a cat's, then relax completely so that your back is swayed and your belly is way down towards the floor.

This simple exercise helps keep the baby off your back/spine, and would Easily help get the baby off your intestines... This exercise is also excellent for helping get the baby into a good birthing position (change of gravity points).

 

[super mom]

Another thing to try:
Doing the "cat stretches" every day, several times a day. You get on your hands & knees, then arch your back way up like a cat's, then relax completely so that your back is swayed and your belly is way down towards the floor.

This simple exercise helps keep the baby off your back/spine, and would Easily help get the baby off your intestines... This exercise is also excellent for helping get the baby into a good birthing position (change of gravity points).

this would work however it causes alot of pain i my back from a privious car accident and i was supposed to go for knee surgery but then got pregnant so i can't do the hands and knees thing or my knee painfully locks into that postion and i am stuck until it unlocks itself

 

[super mom]

i am going to try grape juice to help things move along