Is this something I should worry/do something about? Wee related.

[BertieBotts]

I have a bad habit of holding on until I really really need to go to do a wee. I know this is horrible and you can inadvertently train your wee holding muscles to be a bit too strong and probably that is what has happened. I just tend to think "Yes I'll go in a minute" and get distracted and suddenly hours have passed especially in the evenings when I'm sitting on the computer (thinking "I must go to bed in a minute..." hmm, I sense a pattern.)

Anyway. Now 15 weeks pregnant and obviously I need to wee more often, which is mostly fine and I do pay attention to these urges during the day - but I'm finding that I don't wake up at night until I get into light sleep about an hour before I normally wake up in the morning, and then I'm finding that, while I don't have accidents, the need to go is so strong that it's actually quite painful, like cramps in my bladder area. This morning the cramps were so bad that I was actually struggling to physically get up which seemed a bit alarming. Feeling a bit guilty as well because during the preceding days I had been contemplating whether it was better just to go and be annoyed that I then couldn't get back to sleep before my alarm went off or hold on and go when I woke up properly.

I'm completely sure I don't have a UTI because I've had them a fair amount in the past and I'm familiar with the symptoms, this isn't anything like that. I think it's just discomfort from holding on for too long. I don't know if I should maybe set an alarm for halfway through the night to get up to do a wee! Is that totally mad?? I've never heard of anybody feeling like they don't wee enough during the night in pregnancy before!

Maybe try it if you’re struggling so much tbh. I was told if I try hold it in when pregnant the urine starts to backtrack, which can lead to pain (and eventually infection)

You will get bad water infections when you hold in your wee and you don't want that on top of pregnancy can be nasty. I would set the alarm xx

I had this at around 15 weeks too I just wasn’t waking up in the night and by morning I’d be bursting. I think it was more that I was so tired that I ignored the urge and go back asleep. I started making myself get up and go the toilet if I woke up at all during night even if the urge wasn’t there.

I also found that at about 15 weeks the only way to have a decent wee was to lean forward on the toilet with my arms up over my head to try lift my uterus off my bladder!

Fast forward to 33 weeks now and I’m up peeing at least 3/4 times a night, the joys

I've figured out I think it's general cramping and it's because I'm trying to sit straight up like you'd do a sit up. When I roll over onto my side and push myself up from there, it doesn't hurt. It's still uncomfortable obviously to have a full bladder but I don't have the same cramping issue.

I've only ever got a UTI on hygiene issues, never from holding it in.