25 weeks - period type aches and cramps, normal?

[Ismo456]

3rd baby so I should know, but I think I’ve blocked it all out 😂

25 weeks, have suddenly popped and feeling quite round and bumpy. Past couple of days I’ve had achy lower belly and all around my lower back and top of my bum. Feels just like that heavy ache I usually get the day before my period is due. Pretty sure this is normal due to the stretching and the carrying of extra weight, but want to check as I’m a chronic worrier!

I have been getting those aches for quite a while, and I am 22 weeks. I was told it was because the uterus is getting bigger and stretching. I am massive with 5th pregnancy so lots of stretching and Braxton hicks have started early for me too!

I have too, i am 23 weeks. Today awful with it :( i have found i am constipated too which has made it worse 😭😭 but to be fair, i have been cramping and in pain the whole way through so far :(

Yes, I do wonder if the pains are a lot to do with constipation- it’s relentless! Can’t remember the last time going to the toilet wasn’t actually a chore 😫

Ugh yes :( i had a bad one today on loo (trying to be subtle without tmi) and now bleeding
..that made me paranoid. I also fell down the stairs yesterday and messed up my back more (been getting sciatica, so thats now been flared up) haha its not going well and its all coming together this weekend to make me freak. At least midwife weds. I did call them after the fall lol but typical today went tits up too haha..or bottoms up rather.