Poll: Lightening crotch/shooting pain

JGirl2005

I am not having contractions, but just started getting this shooting pain.  I did a search for lightening crotch and it seems that term is mainly used on the bump.

If you had something like this, did you have it early on or later on in pregnancy?  I think I had this last time, but with my already shoretening cervix, any pain scares me.  A quick search seemed to imply that people get this when either the baby drops, baby hits a nerve, or dilation or effacement.

The pain is not sciatic and not round ligament pain.  I get RLP when I sneeze or move in bed too quickly.

 

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Mouseygail

I've had two kinds of stabbing pains...what I refer to as lighting crotch, which to me, is more of a sharp pain in my vagina...I had it even before I was pregnant (oddly enough, I haven't had it in a while now!) 

And over the last month or so, I've been having increasing stabbing pains that I can only guess is my cervix.  It definitely seems like it has to do with the baby's position.  Sometimes it feels like he's clawing to get out.  It often happens when I'm walking and I have to stop and breathe through it a little (and get the urge to clamp shut my legs).  I personally think its just the cervix adjusting to shifting weight and pressure from the baby.  

JGirl2005

Mine isn't quite in my vagina region.  it kinda shoots down my belly.  happens once a day or twice - just started.

I don't have a contx at the same time and my RLP feels different.

When I am newly pregnant, I get this a lot...the shoorting pain way down near my vagina/butt.  this feels the same but is in a different area....

JGirl2005

Mine isn't quite in my vagina region.  it kinda shoots down my belly.  happens once a day or twice - just started.

I don't have a contx at the same time and my RLP feels different.

When I am newly pregnant, I get this a lot...the shoorting pain way down near my vagina/butt.  this feels the same but is in a different area....

thanks, mousygail!

GenRN45

the round ligament goes into the vulva... so it makes sense that RLP and "lightning crotch" are the same thing.

It's a long ligament. You can have pain from the stretching in many different areas.

I didn't vote, because my answer is that it's RLP and it's normal, and that wasn't an option.