DC1 due second week of December so am c.38 weeks.
Have had a pretty good 2nd and 3rd trimester, apart from a nasty 3-4 week bout of sciatica/PGP, am fit and well and usually have lots of energy and feel in a good mood.
However in the last 4 days I have developed the following annoying symptoms.
- Pooing a lot (sorry TMI)
- Weeing incessantly & is hard to get all the wee out of bladder (sorry, TMI)
- Increased discharge (sorry TMI)
- Tired and moody
- Insomnia
- Furiously wriggling baby who feels like they are trying to fight their way out of the bump
- Downward pressure on cervix, sometimes it feels like something is stuck in my birth canal, a bit like when you've not inserted a tampon correctly
-Achy 'heavy period about to start any moment' lower belly cramps
- Lower back pain (but this feels like a rerun of the PGP rather than period cramps)
Googling 'signs of labour' and reading old MN threads is inconclusive so what I'm asking is not: 'am I going into labour at any moment',
(because who knows?) but instead
is all this just the usual final furlong inconveniences and thus just to be put up with?
Would be handy to know because then I can factor in needing to go slow and not go out much over the remaining weeks.
-sigh-
Ta.