February Symptoms

lajoliedreamer

@queenklau - I've had the same the past few days. I think it's just baby shifting more fully to my right side with his back/butt. It's a weird feeling!

pourmeanothermocktail

Sometimes it feels like baby shoves really hard to one side, and that triggers BH. Pregnancy is weird.

m6agua

@randic22 I think a few of us have been mentioning some nausea the last couple weeks.

randic22

@m6agua I guess I wasnt expecting the return of it so quickly. Second tri seemed like a blink

jrouge12

I'll have to try a few of the leg cramp suggestions. Woke up with them last night too for the first time this pregnancy. Definitely drank a good amount of water during the day. I also had a vivid nightmare. And this little baby was doing some ballet from 3-4. 😴 I may have left my motivation still sleeping in bed this morning. 

mamaclownface

@pirateduck thank you! I was going to look for an app so this is helpful. I'll check it out this evening.

mamaclownface

@m6agua +1 for the nausea camp.

Also, I was surprised to hear during my birth class that not everyone gets Braxton hicks? and most of the ladies in my class don't experience them. I feel like I had a ton with my first and this time around I have them even more. They are so easily triggered.

jrouge12

@mamaclownface I barely had BH with my first but they are regular this time around!

m6agua

@mamaclownface I had absolutely no BH with DD until the day before I went into labor. I had my last appointment on a Thursday (39+1), she stripped my membranes and stretched me to 4 cm (I had already started dilating at 35 weeks). Nothing Friday, Saturday afternoon BH started, Sunday labor started around 2 pm. and I had her close to 10pm. This time around I am 27 weeks and haven't had any BH yet.

chewie5990

@mamaclownface I never experienced braxton hicks with my first pregnancy and so far I haven't felt anything with this one, but I know it's still pretty early. 

peachnectarine

@mamaclownface I had 0 Braxton Hicks with my first two pregnancies. This pregnancy, I am having them all the time. My doctor said you are more likely to experience Braxton Hicks with each subsequent pregnancy. But man, it sucks!

soprano19

I had Braxton Hicks for about the last 8-10 weeks with DD1, and this time I've been having them since like 22 weeks. It's nuts.

pourmeanothermocktail

I can't understand how this varies so much. Not a single one!? And I have them starting early in second trimester, and for the final 5 weeks of my pregnancy they are timeable and nearly constant. And uncomfortable by then. Every 5-30 min. For weeks. 

I sincerely hope no one else has that. 

pirateduck

I have not had any BH yet at 27 weeks, but I assume they are coming at some point.  I wonder if it’s genetic or perhaps related to physical condition or BMI or some other factor.  Hmm... I’m headed to google to see why some people are more prone to BH than others

randic22

I'm a FTM and I've been getting BH for at least a month and I am now 28 weeks. Definitely more intense now than when they first started and much more frequent. I asked the OB how often is normal because I was concerned. She said as long as it's not 6-8 in and hour consistently I'm fine. I was shocked though as I thought that many in a day was a lot!

rox7777

@pirateduck BH causes: dehydration, activity level, irritable uterus and uterus position, baby’s position. Basically, there’s an abundance of reasons. I carried DS1 extremely low. Like head on cervix low and had them from 25 weeks on. I never had them with DS2 and he was carried extremely high, feet in ribs high. I’m having them almost daily now and baby girl is positioned much like DS1. I also have an irritable uterus and it’s tilted forward. 

I’ve had preterm labor and early babies every time so I know an excessive amount about Braxton Hicks, contractions, the little differences, etc. 

rachelg777

I have had BH's with both pregnancies pretty consistently. Last pregnancy it was usually more when I was on my feet (I worked a very physical job) but this one it's kind of just whenever. I think the positioning of my babies also plays a huge part for me. 

thepretzelchick

I had consistent timeable BH the last month with DS. It was terrible. They started to get bad with DD, but she was so low that her head contributed to my irritable cervix and I went on bedrest, so they never got to the point DS did. I've already had a few this time around and I am taking it as easy as I can to try to reduce them as I get farther along.

drkoyya

No BH yet for me. I have had some “tightening” sensations but it’s only been in an isolated area and not my entire uterus. My doctor said it’s probably ligaments stretching. 

I have a new symptom. Who knew you could be constipated and still get diarrhea. 

pirateduck

@rox7777 i had t thought about position of baby/placenta/shape of uterus.  Something I read is that we all get Braxton Hicks, but it’s easier for some women to feel them than others.  So yeah, like other baby movements, baby and placenta position are probably a factor in how they feel to us.

I was thinking about people feeling baby movement up by their ribs and for me everything I feel is well below the belly button even if it’s a high kick, so yeah, baby position changes things!

allie456

@pirateduck gah I'm jealous -- I get kicked in the ribs/have one baby stuck under my right ribs on a regular basis and it's painful! Boy baby was transverse at my last US and I think there's just not that much room for him to be sideways in there.

@drkoyya wow that symptom sounds truly unpleasant.

question for the room: what feels like deep muscle pain in my right ass cheek? is that sciatica?

rox7777

@pirateduck I’ve had both. Let me tell you a foot in the rib cage is the worst. DS2 was wedged in my ribcage during my CS. A nurse actually had to come around the curtain and pull up on my ribs and wiggle his foot loose. Easily the worst sensation I’ve ever dealt with. As for DS1 and this baby, I can’t hardly walk without peeing myself. Any little shift from them causes my bladder to overreact. The other night I woke up to her hiccuping. It literally felt like my cervix was vibrating. Take your pick, because third trimester is uncomfortable no matter which way they’re positioned.

afranzen85

@pirateduck I am also experiencing all movement belly button and below. I have always had much higher movement with my othera

@rox7777 Yesterday was definitely a struggle with walking and my bladder. I felt like all I did yesterday was pee.

pourmeanothermocktail

So far I've had placentas in three different positions, but same amount of BH either way. Short torso means that my always breech babies get their head stuck on a rib most of third trimester and cause nearly constant nerve pain there. My first even shoved his hands up and over so they were sitting on top (between skin and ribs, super creepy to see) on the regular. Did not like.

Why they gotta hurt us so much?

I'm already getting the rib nerve pain. Suck.

mamaclownface

@jrouge12 really?? I don't know why I'm so surprised every time I hear that! I had them so frequently with DD that I assumed it was the norm.

@m6agua That's wild! Thanks to having so many Braxton Hicks with DD, by the time I went into labor and had my first real contraction, I knew without a doubt that it was go time.

@chewie5990 0  and @peachnectarine Mind.Blown.

@rachelg777, @soprano19, @pourmeanothermocktail, @randic22,  Glad to hear someone can relate!

For me, It'll happen even if I'm hydrated, relaxed, empty bladder, etc. However, those things will irritate them and make them worse.

tj_2

@pourmeanothermocktail i i recently got some clorox(?) cleaning tabs that go into the water reservoir in your toilet and essentially clean it out a bit everytime it's flushed. I don't believe it cost much and will probably last a while. It won't help the situation completely but maybe one less thing to worry about. 

tj_2

@drkoyya experiencing the same diarrhea constipation delight

mamaclownface

The breathlessness! Anyone else? Gahhh its so bad. I have a short torso so I'm sure that plays a part- but geeze. I have too long to go to feel this breathless. 

pirateduck

@allie456 yeah, but instead I get kicked in the bladder which makes you feel like you need to pee even when you don't.

It could be sciatica, it could just be those muscles.  Do a youtube search for stretches for sciatica relief and you will find some good ones that will address both issues.  

tj_2

@mamaclownface that happens to my occasionally and I figure it's the baby pressed up against my lungs. Usually a few really deep breaths moves the baby along and gives me most of my lung space back

pirateduck

@rox7777 oh yes the urge to pee is real with this baby.  I make a point to use the bathroom before I leave work every day, I know I'm empty, but the constant kicks on in the car on the way home make it really hard to convince myself I don't need to pull the car over and try to pee on the side of the road.

lisush

@mamaclownface yup! Already no room here either. Stairs are fun and require a good amount of time to be able to talk normally again haha

jhysmath

@pourmeanothermocktail
 have all of your children been breech all the way to birth? DD was breech and I would really like to not have a breech baby this time but all the movements I feel have been low again so I think this one is destined to be breech as well. 

TattoosandLace

Probably already mentioned by someone else, but I've been having more tightening than I remember with the other pregnancies... and I never felt it this early before. Nasal issues.. I've had more puking and bloody noses this pregnancy than my entire life.

bananapanda

@mamaclownface yes to the breathlessness! I have a new intern and when I have longer meetings with him where I'm talking fast for an hour straight I realize I have to keep slowing down because I'm out of breath just talking fast.  

lisush

@bananapanda yes! Lol and I make other people give tours at work so I don't have to walk and talk and do the stairs 

pourmeanothermocktail

@tj_2 We cloth diaper and rinse many diapers in toilet, plus have a dog that sometimes sneaks a taste, so the chemical tabs aren't really in our plan, but thank you.

@jhysmath First was breech until birth at 35+4. Second was breech consistently until just over 36 weeks, then she flipped entirely on her own.

For the first one, I tried everything on the Spinning Babies website, plus rebozo sifting, the flashlight trick, cold peas trick, music trick, inversions, the Miles Circuit, acupuncture, moxibustion, chiropractor... you name it, I tried it, and it didn't work. I was trying to get them to schedule my ECV earlier than 37 weeks (their normal policy) because I'd been contracting since 28 weeks, and was also born a month early. Then I tried to get them to try to turn him in labor, and that hospital was awful and didn't even give a good reason not to. That was my traumatic section.

My second, I literally did nothing to try to convince her to flip, I was prepared to wait for 37 weeks to try to flip her, and if it failed, I had a doctor and a midwife who would do vaginal breech VBAC. Then she flipped at 4 am the morning I was headed to appointment to schedule the version, lol.

This time I'm going to assume baby will be breech for a longer time too. Even with my breech babies, I feel a lot of movements high up and low down.Weird factor for me-when my babies are breech I feel hiccups on my cervix, when they go head down I feel it near ribs. But I get pushes and kicks and punches freaking everywhere. I can just tell they're breech when I can find their painful hard head bashing into my ribs from the bottom.

pirateduck

@pourmeanothermocktail we have really hard water which creates unsightly stubborn toilet stains.  I'd tried a lot of different cleaners with a lot of intense scrubbing with little to no effect.  I turned to the internet and found my miracle solution.  I pour about a cup of apple cider vinegar (I think you can use white, but I didn't have any in the house) into the toilet, let it sit about ten minutes, scrubbed with the toilet brush about 2 seconds (no hard/intense scrubbing) and my toilet came out looking cleaner than it had in years!  It was so easy.  I didn't know that toilet cleaning could be easy.  I didn't know I could get the mineral deposits and such out of the bowl and thought I'd have to live with them forever.  It is so much better than any toilet cleaning product I've tried.

TattoosandLace

@pourmeanothermocktail I second @pirateduck's ACV! Works wonders here!

pourmeanothermocktail

Thanks! It typically comes clean enough, but just getting down there to do it (and with two penis wielding family members, the exterior, especially bottom, has to be cleaned!!!) is the hardest part right now! 

But, with me up close and personal with it, spraying off diapers, I can't handle it being extra gross from lack of cleaning. I'll find a few min to get sink/mirror handled and toilet handled this weekend I hope, but it's just irritating that it hurts so much already to do it. I'll force my husband to find time though to scrub the tub (that's dirty enough it's dubious on whether children can get cleaner washing in there).