Trouble breathing

4everlove

I feel like I am always out of breath.  I can't even have a conversation or sing a song in the car lol...without being completely winded.  Everyday it is getting worse.  I understand feeling a little out of breath but this is crazy!  Laying down doesn't seem to help either.  In fact sometimes I feel worse. I wonder if the babies are getting enough oxygen if this is how I am feeling.

I have also been getting what I assume is BH contractions.  My stomach is really tight.  It seems to be almost all the time. Plus I have a baby  painfully kicking my ribs. Is this all normal at this point (I am 28 weeks)?  It makes me a bit scared of what is to come.

petitbelle

I think that is pretty common. Your ribcage starts to expand dramatically in the first trimester making it necessary to use more air. Also as you get bigger the babies will be pushing up against your diaphragm. Sometimes I get out of breath just walking from one room to another and I've got a long way to go. I found a good book at the bookstore that I would recommend. It's "How to have a healthy twin pregnancy" by Gila Leiter. She's a ob/gyn that had twins herself and it really explains alot. Good luck!

OrangeSmoke

Happening to me too... I find myself stopping in the middle of a sentence b/c I can't catch my breath to keep talking!  It's so embarrasing at work...

I'm also getting BH everyday, usually in the afternoon/evening.  I find that lying down helps...

katsblaze

All of this happens to me as well.  I get out of breath walking from the car to the office building, talking for more then like 3 minutes, basically anything I do.  My doc told my it was pretty normal, especially since I measure 37 weeks. 

I am also getting BH every now and then.  All of this I see as signs of we are just getting closer and closer to meeting our LO's.

dulcinea03

Very normal. The only solution for me was delivery, so I had a long period of sucking it up and dealing. The good news was the relief was instant once the OB pulled baby B out of my ribs.