Hi!
Congratulations! And I sympathise!
Hopefully it’s normal, could all be to do with your hormones.
Have you had a squat over a mirror/ put a finger up there while squatting? What happens if you cough or bear down? Does your vagina feel or look different? Are you able to ‘draw’ whatever it feels like is dropping ‘back up’?
I really want to put your mind at ease cos you’re a pregnant lady with a toddler, you don’t need the hassle! I had your precise symptoms after DS and was told hormonal fluctuations often cause that sensation of dropping, as does the additional weight in the womb. I was also told most women feel draggy down there, though more often in later pregnancy. Do you think your midwife could have a look, or even better, a gynaecologist or GP in your practice with some degree of specialism in gynaecology?
It helps if they look at you while you’re performing the action that causes the dropping feeling. I had a urethral prolapse giving birth to my DS and it was missed. After DD was born I was told by a private consultant I should have been strongly discouraged from a second vaginal birth. Unfortunately no bugger ever noticed until it was too late (and I had half the medical profession fumbling around up there with DD).
I was aware something wasn’t right inside my vagina after DS but I put it down to a wild labour, he came flying out with one hand over his head. The draggy dropping sensation intensified throughout pregnancy two but was only after DD arrived that I thought hang on a minute something is definitely about to fall out 😂 The only symptom I had was the feeling of internal dropping, there was little to no random peeing. Apparently it was missed repeatedly during pre-natal exams because I was always lying flat on my back with my knees akimbo; I was also told by a nurse performing a cervical smear between pregnancies that I just needed to do loads more Kegels. To be fair Kegels definitely do help pelvic tone and continence and so on but they can’t solve (or prevent) everything that can happen. Some of it is down to your physical construction, the make-up of your connective tissue etc.
When a GP who ran a gynae clinic eventually examined me she asked me to squat, not lie. I now manage a Grade Three prolapse through exercise (and occasionally pessaries) and tend to consciously ‘pull it all up’ when I squat in the gym (there are a lot of exercises that can help alleviate that ‘oh no’ sensation even if it’s not a prolapse you’ve got, check out special prenatal exercise videos on YouTube or ask your midwife or gynae).
Apologies for the long tale which I really hope is all totally irrelevant, and your thing turns out to be just the joy of hormones. But please don’t be put off investigating further if you’re worried or try and convince yourself it’s just one of those things. I would have had much less of an issue after birth two if I’d advocated for myself a bit better, I learned the hard way we can often detect problems in our own body best, as we all know vaginas (and their owners) are too easily fobbed off 😂