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Re: 36 weeks- contractions or cramps or what?- to darcie
From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Fri, 16 May 2003 12:38:58 -0500 (CDT)
Darcie, Thanks so much for your reply. I got one other reply on my
other Paranoid Pregnancy board that said the same thing. I'm actually
pretty relieved to hear you have similar pains/feelings and it's
probably not labor -- I'd like to go ONE more week (to 37 weeks) so I
can say I made it "full term" in my weird-shaped uterus. But god help
me if I go overdue!
I sure hope you don't, either! Maybe she'll come a bit earlier- second
babies usually do. Especially monkey babies. :) Be sure to come post
when she is born so we know!
KM
At Fri, 16 May 2003, anonymous wrote:
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>At Fri, 16 May 2003, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
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>>Hi, I'm 36 weeks and I've been having a really heavy, pressure-like
>>achiness in my lower abdomen/pelvis. It feels something like menstrual
>>cramps and it hurts. BUT, it does not seem to me like contractions (the
>>pain does not come and go in waves and my uterus does not seem to
>>tighten - it is nothing like the Braxton Hicks contractions I've had,
>>which I still have from time to time). Could this be early labor or is
>>it just late-pregnancy "heavy soreness"??
>>
>>Thanks,
>>KM
>
>Hi KM,
>
>I've been having the same types of pains you describe, on and off since
>the day I thought the baby was dropping. I actually think it might be
>the baby pushing more on my bowels during a Bh contraction as she gets
>bigger. My Ob also said "everybody seems to get sore in that area at
>this stage". With my last daughter, I went into labour spontaneously
>almost 2 weeks overdue (by u/s, and 6 days late by LMP), and there was
>no second guessing even my very first real contraction. I instantly
>knew that's what it was, and she was born 8 hrs later. With this pg,
>I've had so many different types of pains and stuff going on, that I
>understand now how women can end up going to the hospital with "false"
>labour. You'll know when the real thing hits- there's just no mistaking
>it. Hope it all starts to happen soon for you. I myself am now
>resigned to in all likelihood even going past my May 30 due date...this
>little monkey seems to like it in there, just like her sister
>did:)Darcie
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