Period type cramps at 29 weeks. Please re-assure me

[FrankAwenstein]

Wondering if anyone else had this as memory is hazy from ds1. Yesterday I was getting pain right down at bottom of bump, enough to make me stop what i was doing. Last night I started to get a bit worried as there started to be a pattern to them, but after 4 'patterned ones' it eased off. My whole tummy tightened too. Anyway, it did all settle down so i didnt call hospital. Havent had a show or anything like that and I am ok now as in no pains.

I have (probably stupidly) read up on this and it suggested poss false labour and that real labour usually follows. This has worried me a bit. I am due at the obsterician on Monday and am having scan then too. Baby is fine as had antenatal on Tuesday, he is head down, good heartbeat and moving away.

What i really want to ask is if with 2nd or subsequent whetehr braxton hicks can be painful and if anyone else has had this. DOnt really want to haul myself to hospital when all seems ok now and my mw only available on Tuesdays, else is via hospital.

could be braxton hicks but if you're worried call the hospital xxx

Sorry can't be of much assistance but I didn't want you to be ignored and let's keep it at the top, maybe one of the very knowledgeable doulas will pop in. Why not try and call the hospital and speak to someone so you don't have to go in? NHS Direct? Do you have an NHS walk in centre? Can you go to your GP?

It's obviously worrying you so best to get it checked out, good luck

Poor you I had feelings like that a couple of weeks ago, I put it down to Braxton Hicks and it hasn't happened again. Call the MW for peace of mind hon (she'll be nice to you )x

I posted about exactly this when at the same stage of PG as you - I would sometimes have to lie down and "breathe" through them I asked the midwife about it, but she didn't really have any answers, and everything else about the pg was normal. In the end I decided they were just practice contractions (but were totally different to BHs - much lower down like period pains but worse) Sometimes woke up with them in the middle of the night - bit scary! Baby came at 38.5 weeks - in 2 hours flat start to finish - so guess all that "practising" was worth it

But it's not a silly question hon!!

Bokin - your post is really reassuring - esp the 2 hours bit! (hoping for vbac). You have described it to a T, really low down, needed to breath through it, not all over bump.

Did they continue till birth or was it a phase?

MrsMc mw is around only on tuesdays for me, else hosp so might call the hosp i am having this one in. Just really dont want to be on the phone to MW about this especially as they arent the team i will be having baby with, if that makes sense. Am having baby in a diff hosp to 'catchment area'.

Hi Frankawenstein!

hmm would maybe just call and check..but as al ok now and baby still moving well..might have just been BH? A phone call might reassure you..hopefully you wont get "her" xxxx

They were just a phase - my other theory, which I have just remembered was that it was the baby pressing on a ligament (as sometimes it was only on one side) and it was relieved by lying down for a bit on the opposite side, thereby taking the pressure off.

I don't have any helpful answers but I had the same on Monday evening (am 23 weeks - I think, can't remember). It totally freaked me out, as I didn't have anything like that with ds1. I was convinced that I was having a miscarriage or premature labour (don't know what it is called at this stage), and was on the phone to dh in floods of tears. But at the same time I didnt want to contact mw (who isn't very sympathetic) or the hospital in case I was being stupid.

I think, in my case, it was tiredness and dehydration.