Midwives! and anyone else who can help! Is it okay to occasionally feel a 'tearing' pain in my abdominal skin?

[SpeedyGonzalez]

Am 25 weeks preg; every now and then I get a pain in the same spot on my tum which feels like the skin is tearing. It blardy hurts! It's occasional, maybe every couple of weeks, and lasts just a few seconds - today it was brought on by bending down (serves me right: I should have squatted). I reckon I've had it for about the last 2 months.

Am I the only one to experience this? Is it serious enough to call my doctor/ midwife - my next appt is in 4 weeks.

TIA!

bumpety bump-bermp

I am no expert but I always got a nasty pain close to one side near rib cage when pregnant. Especially as my bump got bigger. It was made worse by driving or my desk chair at office, especially if I didn't sit right. I used to massage the pain away with fingers.

I did speak to my midwife though and she had a feel and said all was ok. Maybe at your next check up, have a chat, unless of course it gets worse, then ring them asap.

I am also no expert, but if DH tells his worst jokes I can be in crippling pain from abdominal muscles trying to make me laugh but being in the wrong place (I think). I am expecting DC3 and this has happened in all my PGs. I have a wacking great C-section scar now too, but figure if the pain goes away quickly, it is probably just a weird strain - happens if I sneeze too violently too.

The 'game' DH has moved on to now I am almost ready to pop is: can he make me laugh so hard I wet myself? - tbh it's getting pretty easy.

I agree with teaandcake - if it's worrying you get it checked at next appointment, if it's really worrying you, go and see the mw soon.

Thanks for your posts! I think I'll leave it for now as it's not serious and only happens once in a blue moon (funnily enough we did have a blue moon not so long ago...I always assumed that was just a saying!).

Motherofsnort - today I sneezed hard enough to wet myself and was horrified as I've been faithfully lifting my pelvics for several weeks now. You've reassured me that it's the baby's fault, not mine! And - what a cruel DH you have

is it like a stitch? Might be round ligament pain?

From what you describe I think I had this too in both my PG's at around the same time. I'm 34wks with DC2 now and haven't had any for a while. I just assumed it was owing to things stretching inside, I never had any evidence of anything else being wrong in connection to it!

Hi superbean, no, it's nothing like a stitch - it feels exactly like tearing - bit graphic, I know!

Chunka - glad to hear you've been okay with the same symptoms, I'm feeling better about it now as, like you, I think it's nothing more than stretching.

Hi Speedy

DH wins tonight by changing the little car picture on the TomTom to something that looks like it just flew in from Star Wars.

I have been getting quite painful stretching / sharp pains across my abdomen.

I mentioned it to my mw yesterday, who said that if the pains were a sign of anything serious, they would get progressively more intense in pain and more constant, rather than occasional. Whilst she is a very laid back 'you'll live' mw, she didn't seem concerned at all.

motherof - err...what's a TomTom? However I'm guessing he made you literally PYSL, right?

sheep - great info, thanks! Hope your pains subside. I read somewhere that if you hydrate yourself enough (which I'm definitely guilty of not doing) you shouldn't have stretching pains. I keep meaning to try it but just can't get into the habit of drinking loads of water!

I had this from about 26 weeks til about 34 weeks - I found the only thing that helped was tying a wide scarf/pashmina round my bump and then in the end bought a belly bra thingy from babies r us. My mw said it was abdominal muscles tearing as baby grew...and it felt just like that.

Feel for you as its horrible - though if it only happens every now and again then your lucky - mine was almost constant when standing or walking around...yoga and swimming seemed to help too.

speedy - it's a what geeky gadget boys use instead of a map.

I had exactly the same, it was a sharp tearing pain at the bottom left of my abdomen that turned out to be adhesions (scar tissue from previous surgery)The bigger I got the more frequent the pain as the tissue was being stretched with my expanding bump.
It was usually triggered by getting out of bed, standing up or bending over. I had to do all of the above very gingerly and was given a maternity support band by my midwife to help.