For the last few weeks I feel like I have had a melon squashed between my legs, or if I were to put it less delicately, rammed up my whatsit. However the worst this has meant is sitting with my legs splayed elegantly outwards in order to accommodate the baby’s head which is right down in my pelvis. If I attempt to sit in a more ladylike pose he kicks and writhes until I have to move. It’s bad enough they exert so much influence as children, but really, this much control while still in the womb? It’s not right. Also going over potholes in the road has been less than fun. I have been heard to yell “slow down Matthew for God’s sake or this baby is going to come out NOW” over the particularly bad potholes which can be found in the parking lot at my son’s preschool. I am NOT having the place of birth listed on this baby’s birth certificate as HF Preschool driveway.
So it hasn’t been too bad, but this morning I have woken up with excrutiating pain in my pelvic bones and am finding it difficult to move, walk or lift anything. I hope this is just a temporary thing rather than something I have to suffer until the baby arrives. I already want the baby out. Now I want my pelvis taken out at the same time too.
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Maybe that means instead of long pushing, you’ll just have to sneeze a couple of times?
I’ve only got the two, but by this point with both, I was begging to just be able to put this baby down. (Now that I think about it, I never got to that point with # 2, so maybe I’m just remembering wrong, or I was more of a whiner than you are.)
Ugh, Ella, I remember that. Maybe it’s that by the third one those muscles just don’t hold the baby in as well or maybe it was chasing the older two, but I just knew that #3 was going to drop out at the most inopportune moment!
Hope you are feeling better soon. Or that baby is fully ripe and out sooner rather than later! You are in my thoughts!
I had similar pain in the last few weeks of my last pregnancy and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone but the good news is that as soon as the baby comes the pain goes.
That’s an awful, awful feeling. Maybe she’s telling you she’s ready…
That’s an awful, awful feeling. Maybe she’s telling you she’s ready…
I had that too. Then after my baby was born, my pelvis was still sore and sorta loose-feeling for a couple of weeks afterwards.
You sit however you need to because that is a horrible feeling! I hope these last weeks aren’t too terrible for you!
That sounds like it will be there to stay. I did that when I was expecting Maggie- UBER painful! I think it has something to do with your pelvic bones seperating too soon. Hurts a lot! I can remember being in bed and having to get up to wee but knowing that the movement of getting up was going to be excruciating. There were nights whern I was tempted to just go in bed!
Yikes! At least the baby is in the right position…
Sorry for your pain though. I remember it all too well.