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Braxton Hicks doing my head in

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Ohhiiii · 17/08/2020 15:51

Anyone else? I'm trying to see it as a good thing as my body is preparing for baby, but I suffer with IBS/constipation/bloating and it seems every afternoon I start with the bloating pains (regardless of what I've eaten), and it triggers off multiple Braxton Hicks. I've had them since mid week 20s, I'm 35 weeks now but they are getting more and more frequent and when they start they can go on for hours and sometimes be every few minutes. It also makes me need a wee nearly every time they happen. I don't mind the odd one but I'm fed up of being bloated anyway and they make the gassy pains worse (quite convinced it's not anything more than Braxton Hicks else I'd have had my baby weeks ago at this rate 😂). I'm starting to dread evening meals because I feel like eating anything else will make it worse. Mornings I barely have any but then I eat more than breakfast and that's it 🙄

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Treaclepie19 · 17/08/2020 16:28

I'm the same. 32+5 and been going on for weeks.
Interestingly I got checked out and not everything I thought was braxton hicks actually was. Sometimes it was baby moving that had made my bump hard and painful apparently. Also the consultant said my spd is making everything more painful.
I am starting to struggle though, between feeling sick, being on the toilet multiple times a day and having pains and cramps 🙈

Ohhiiii · 17/08/2020 16:41

I cried this morning because I woke up 8 times last night due to carpal tunnel pains 🙈. I really don't think I'll miss being pregnant 😂

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Treaclepie19 · 17/08/2020 17:43

For me its the constant weeing and having to switch sides because my hips are so painful. I know... the third trimester especially is hard work 🙈

Rosieeeee · 17/08/2020 18:05

I sleep on top of two folded duvets and that solved the hip pain as it's nice and squishy 😊, just the arms that make me have to swap sides now 🙈

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