Uncomfy bending down?

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so I'm pretty certain that at 27+5 it being uncomfortable to bend over is par for the course. I was just hoping that maybe someone could tell me I'm right?! Ha!

I realise that LO is a reasonable size now so bending is going to mean negotiating her as well, but it's normal to feel a pressure in my tummy when I bend, right??

Bend your legs instead of your back as much as possible.

Or...

Demand that other people bend instead.

Do the second one. Definitely.

Yes, bending is hard when pregnant. You manage to stress your already compromised abdominal and oblique muscles, push the baby either into your ribs and lungs or bladder and your balance gives up at the point of full bend.

It's a spectacularly graceful time, pregnancy.

Spd and a bump the size of a small planet have ruled out bending down for some time now :) I have strict instructions from the consultant that there is to be no bending and lifting whatsoever.

Show of hands is right - get others to do the bending for you.

I now simply looked pained and pathetic, point to the article and dh picks it up for me. He puts my socks on too (for which I love and adore him, truly, these things are the bedrock of a good marriage, not the big gestures.) it makes us laugh ;)

I am struggling to put my knickers on at the moment! I'm only 22 weeks

Putting on knickers is fun isn't it. I used to sit on the end of the bed and dangle them pathetically towards my feet knowing that it just wasn't happening. I had polyhydramnios with my second so had the most enormous bump and the rest of me was still a size 8. It was like my feet and I were on a trial separation but neither of us really wanted it, it wasn't working and we desperately missed each other.

Here's to DH's who help us! My DH intervened when he saw me struggling to cut my toe nails!

It's just sprung up on me, this one but all of a sudden I keep going to bend and realising that my bump isn't going to bend with me!

I feel better about asking DH to do stuff for me now.

brummie I'm doing a balancing act on a morning to get my pants on! Shoes are proving to be an issue too ...!!

I have to sit down for pants/leggings/jeans...

I have sometimes had to call for dh to help with those as well. :/ poor dh...

Also estranged from feet. Due next week so will be looking forward to a reconciliation.

Ooh, and those long shoehorn things from IKEA are amazing for shoes!

I'm in the same boat Brummie! At some point soon DH is going to have to put my tights on for me in the morning. So embarrassing.

I also have a thing about people touching my feet which I'm going to need to get over as someone is going to need to trim the talons for me .

I don't even have a big bump yet, it's just really uncomfortable to bend!

You have a baby in the way, it's going to be uncomfortable/sore/impossible to bend from here on in! If you need to get on the floor for something, either ask someone else to pick it up for you, leave it where it is, or go into a squat or even down onto all fours. Ideally make sure you are near a piece of furniture so you have some sort of assistance getting up again. You will probably also find in the next few weeks that getting dressed from the waist down is hard, as pp's have said, also things like wiping when on the toilet! Pregnancy is very un-glamorous, and we haven't even reached the giving birth part yet!