38 weeks - feels like baby is head butting me down below, anyone felt this?

[zambooloo]

I'm 38 weeks and for the past week-ish every evening I have felt what I can only describe as sharp, sudden pains very low down in pelvis / pubic area. This goes off when I go to bed but returns every evening. I imagine the baby could be headbutting me!! Is this possible? Midwife said the head was 4/5 engaged and was very low down.

Do you think the pains could mean labour will start soon or is this completely unrelated?

You sound very close, but these things can go so so slowly, just relax and rest as much as you can. enjoy the quiet!

The headbutting feeling is just the babies head in your pelvis.

Try timing the pains.

The pains are quite regular but they disappear during the night and return every evening - would that be the start? Thought it would be continuous when labour starts???

You can have a very slow early labour, my labour started on a friday evening, had contractions about every 10 mins (apart from about between 5am and 10am ) but dd was born at 2am on Monday morning. The more you relax the more you are likely to go into labour.

When you are in proper labour you will know, you can't miss it, you will get various aches and pains as your body prepares.

I'm sort of the same, 38+4 and for the last 4 or 5 evenings, I've had increased tightenings all over my stomach and lots of pressure down below but then it goes off when I go to bed and I get nothing but usual movements all through the day. Last night it felt like my stomach had expanded as far as it could and was going to burst - made it hard to do my hypnobirth breathing practice with it but eventually managed to get into the rythym with it. The night before last I considered timing them but then didn't and last night I had a lot less. Had nothing so far this evening.

Glad I'm not the only one - although obviously don't want you to be in pain!! Mine pains seem to be wearing off now too. Would be very nice to go into labour soon - thought it was starting afew days ago but the pains always just disappear.

I think mine are more intense braxton hicks, I don't think my labour is starting as the head is just only starting to engage as of Thursday but my mum didn't have any of her 5 kids heads engage until labour so who knows. Thankfully, apart from the odd strong twinge and all these tightenings, I'm not uncomfortable in the least and I'm still sleeping all through the night (apart from my once nightly wee, after which I go straight back to sleep) so I can't complain. Would just love to know the exact day baby is coming but wouldn't we all lol.
I know what you mean though, glad someone else is going through something similar, I thought it was really weird it was just happening in the evening.

spoke to soon, tightenings just started again

hi I get this pain aswell - am almost 39 weeks. it feels as though baby's head is banging on my cervix. just a sudden (quite intense) stabbing pain which lasts less than a second. not contraction/tightening. I am also hopeful that it means things are happening!!

My Ds used to roll and grind his head against me. Excrutiating...

Funny thing is he always did this against the head of his cot and needed his head to be firmly pressed to soothe him off to sleep. Even now at 17, he likes his head rubs...

Check with your MW though nut is likely to be pressure and nerve end stimulation from the sheer size and placement of the near to term baby.

The cervix is said to have no nerve endings but the surrounding uterine and vaginal tissues do so could be near-to-labour twinges from the subtle muscular and ligament 'priming' that last trimester hormones need to do.

Your hormones help to make your pelvis and pelvic region more supple and sometimes the ligament called the Symphysis Pubis which 'holds' together the two halves of the pelvis can play up a little.

I had this with DS2. It feels like headbuts, I was told by my obstetrician, because that's essentially what they are! It's painful, but unfortunately the only cure is to give birth . So only two more weeks hopefully

37 weeks and iv had those sharp instant pains in the evening for over a week as well. It can bring a tear to the eye at times.
Baby is breach so I picture it like baby is wiggling its bum into my pelvis. Which is already sore thanks to pgp