horrid cervical pain

[hillaryjudd]

i keep getting this sharp pains in my cervix, it feels like this baby is trying to claw her way out! it hurts like HELL! i'm also contracting every 5 minutes (have been for 2 weeks) and that doesn't seem to help.

anyone experienced this?

[birthangeldoula]

(raising hand) Mine almost feels like a ripping pain in the cervical area. I'm hoping it's my cervix thinning.

[amybird]

I'm sorry you're hurting!

I've had some twinges that feel like they're right at my cervix, short and sometimes sharp, but infrequent. No other signs of impending birth, but I have wondered if my cervix is getting ready. I was 1 cm dilated 2 weeks ago.

[Multimomma]

woohoo! You're dilating!

I've had the same thing going on the past few days. Even a lil smear of pink after wiping. The more you have now, the LESS you have during labor, and trust me, dilating AND contracting is rather....distracting, to say the least.

[ilovebabies]

I have them really bad. It was soooo bad two nights ago that when they would come, I literally could not move and had to breathe through it. And they are NOT contractions. That's normal for me though, I always get that prior to labor starting (even if labor is a couple weeks off). They get so bad sometimes that if I were a first time mom and didn't know any better, I would have gone to the hospital thinking I was in labor. I kept checking to see if I had bloody show, but none yet. For me that means I have just a couple of days.

And yes, it does mean at least something is happening! Your cervix is thinning out and probably dlating too!

[mom2tatum]

I told my mw's I was having this exact thing and they both said it could mean changing cervix, but it could just mean a hand, too. Because I feel like I am getting jabbed down there, then turns pinchy feeling and slightly crampy off and on...it only happens some days. Its a kinda scary feeling...I am anticipating it and tensing up because it almost makes me scream out loud out of shock and discomfort! Yikes.

But, I had it off and on all last week a ton, and after that I was only 1 cm...so I am not putting too much hope into it dilating me further pre-labor.

[cairomama]

I am feeling this too.

[*~Danielle~*]

Been going through this for the past 4 days with contractions, and tons of bloody show. Your body is working!

[Lizzie9984]

Me too! I've been feeling this for weeks, and it's always when the baby moves around down there. I'm assuming s/he's very low and the contact & pressure produce this gawd-awful sensation.....I flippin' hate it, I instinctually "pucker up" internally, if you will.....TMI, I know, but..... :

[art4heart]

I have the same feeling - kind of like a rubber band snapping at my cervix. My midwife says it is probably the pain from the round ligament radiating down to the cervix. As long as I have no other unusual symptoms, she's not worried about it. She says she has a handful of other mamas that have the same feeling.