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Normal for movements to hurt?

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Waterfountain97 · 16/04/2018 11:55

I'm 27+ 2 and recently when my lo moves or kicks my belly button area it's really uncomfortable and sometimes painful that I have to move position. Is this okay? First baby and wouldn't a clue thankyou ladies

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Dobbythesockelf · 16/04/2018 11:58

I find that movements can hurt so I think it's perfectly normal. This is my 2nd pregnancy and no one has told me that it shouldn't hurt. I mean you are being kicked internally it's bound to feel uncomfortable at times.

MaverickSnoopy · 16/04/2018 12:00

I found it more uncomfortable than painful. Don't get me wrong it was VERY uncomfortable but not pain as in needing to take painkillers or like it was alarming or anything like that.

This is a hard one to answer because we all have different comfort levels and pain thresholds so what feels uncomfortable to one person may feel like pain to someone else.

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Waterfountain97 · 16/04/2018 12:05

Okay thankyou ladies maybe the word painful was not needed but yes I'll go with very uncomfortable especially in that one spot thankyou x

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Ratbagratty · 16/04/2018 12:10

Yes unless intense lasting pain, but any concerns ringmidwife. I felt like I was being terrorised on the inside!

Ratbagratty · 16/04/2018 12:11

Tendorised lol not terrorised!

FourForYouGlenCoco · 16/04/2018 12:12

All mine have been uncomfortable/borderline painful, especially towards the end. My second and third both had a habit of pushing their feet up into my rib cage - my lowest rib felt permanently bruised! So another vote for normal here.

KitKatCHA · 16/04/2018 12:13

The downward kicks later in pregnancy were the worst for me, felt like a quick stab in the cervix!

SK166 · 16/04/2018 13:40

OP I'm 29+2 with my first and find the same thing just in that area around the belly button. I don't know about you, but my bump has only come up that high relatively recently and it's where it's most rounded. I think the reason that spot is tender is because of how the abdominal muscles are stretching/separating slightly just there.

I'm sure it's nothing more sinister than that.

Smurfybubbles · 16/04/2018 17:21

I've had plenty of painful and uncomfortable movements! Baby was breech up until 34 weeks and some of the kicks I was getting in my cervix took my breath away.
38 weeks now and I still get some pretty sharp kicks and what feels like scratching with tiny hands
Doesn't help that his most active time of the day is when I lie down to try go asleep!
Repeated kicks in the same place can make it very tender.

kikibo · 16/04/2018 17:28

Oh yes, the scratching! I think it was my DD's knees or feet she did it with.
Thankfully it was never too long/too often. Or she obeyed when I told her to stop. 😁

Sashkin · 17/04/2018 15:09

DS was a weird oblique lie and every time he kicked me, he kicked me in the liver. It was bloody painful! Shift in position were ok, head and arm movements were ok, but every so often he would give me a right kicking and it would make me need to sit down.

CoodleMoodle · 18/04/2018 11:32

Sometimes it can be extremely uncomfortable, especially when they're big and turn, or when they jam something under your ribs! I had an anterior placenta with DD so didn't feel her so much at the front, but she was forever jabbing my cervix or sticking her feet in my ribs...

This time the placenta is on the side so movements can be a lot more uncomfortable when DS really gets going!

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