What pain/discomfort is normal 26 weeks pregnant ?

[dg93]

So I know this is a strange question, which is difficult to answer... but what pain/discomfort are you feeling whilst pregnant? What's normal?

I feel really uncomfortable the last 2 days, like I have a really heavy balloon ready to pop in my lower stomach - obviously that's baby, but did you also experience this?

I've also been getting lots of low cramps pains around my pubic bone the past few days.

I know from my midwife appointment last week that baby is head down, I have an anterior placenta so I'm not feeling much in the way of kicking yet, and already had my first weekly reduced movement appointment on Thursday last week, but all of this discomfort has started over the last couple of days 😭🤞 hoping it's all normal pregnancy related aches and pains

Hi @dg93 I can relate a lot to this! I’m coming up to 29 weeks with an anterior placenta too. I’ve been in for almost weekly movement checks (I think only ladies with anterior placenta scan relate to that :( ). I have days where I feel really heavy and uncomfortable too. Yesterday felt like there was a weight in my uterus and I had back pain and was just so uncomfortable. When I was in for monitoring last week, they said baby had turned breech and I’ve noticed a lot more heaviness/strange sensations more often really low down so it could be baby’s position that has changed and that’s why you’re noticing a change in how your feeling? I hope you’re doing okay and start to feel more comfortable soon x

I belive it's becouse the baby's position changed. Mine also turned head down around 26-28 weeks and started to feel heaviness low down (especially when she moves her arms around there). Do you have high or low placenta? Mine is high on the left so as soon as the head went down I really started to feel the arm movements there.