OKay so...there's a baby in my vagina.

[BroodyWoodsgal]

I have a baby, sitting so low in my vagina...that I have absolutely no idea in hell how I'm going to make it another 7 or so weeks.

I'm 33w3d today. How am I going to make it...he is head down, with his little skull grinding into the inside of my pelvis any time I move AT ALL and it's driving me up a wall..it HURTS! I don't remember having this with DD until I was like, 39 weeks or something...is this something anyone else has endured in a subsequent pregnancy?

He is so low, that if I go pee and wipe and press up while I do it, I can feel his head give a bit and sort of bounce...like, seriously...directions to my baby's head:

Insert one or more finger(s) into vagina, exactly one inch beyond the opening of my urethra, press upward with a bit of pressure.

My cervix is fine...I had been a bit "huh?" about some crazy sharp twinges I was having in my cervix, which woke me up at about three in the morning a couple of nights ago...but the next day(yesterday), checked the ole cervix...maybe 1-2 inches dilated, up up high, nice length to it...so, fine. He's just insanely low.

Anyone else experience a baby hanging way low much earlier on in subsequent pregnancies? I'm shocked at how soon this seems to be feeling like I have two bowling balls, a toaster over, three wallets and a tuna sandwich wedged in my pelvis...OUCH!

Experience? If anything, for me it just confirms what I was already feeling...that when this baby comes, he is coming like a rocket....I would be willing to bet he'll be even faster than his sister!

[fyrebloom]

Well, I know my little one keep getting super low and then he pops back up and it's like it never happened! If you tap him a little does his head move? If he's ballotable then at least he's not wedged. I've been having prodromal labor since about 33-34 weeks and I'm still preggers at 39 1/2 weeks! You never know.

[lia_joy]

my last (#3) started to feel like that around 37wks. He ended up gestating the longest of any of my boys (40wks 6days) but the labor was fast, just about 3 hours....

[Eeyore35]

You might be 5cm dialated? Wow,I never made it past 4 in labour.

[pjs]

Me!Me! I'm guessing I;ve got another 5 weeks- I don't know how I'm going to do it.

[BroodyWoodsgal]

Originally Posted by fyrebloom

Well, I know my little one keep getting super low and then he pops back up and it's like it never happened! If you tap him a little does his head move? If he's ballotable then at least he's not wedged. I've been having prodromal labor since about 33-34 weeks and I'm still preggers at 39 1/2 weeks! You never know.

My intuition tells me that is where I'm headed...definitely ballotable last week..this week, like, the last couple of days..I get a bit of "give" but not as much a bounce. He is head down, facing the right, his back is more toward mine and running down the left side of my belly...what feels so rotten, is the back his head pressing against my sciatic nerve and I don't know if it's his chin or what...but somehow he's jacked up, like, hooked a bit on the right side of my pelvis or something...somehow he's just GRINDING at the right inside part of my pelvis and it just HURTS...I can clearly remember that with his sister I wasn't like that until 2-3 weeks before I delivered...I am just trying to keep my positioning ideal for him to reposition and stop some of this grinding!!

He's been super low for a while now...same as his sister was...she went head down around at midwayish in the pregnancy...by 30 weeks she was pretty low and stayed that way...all my mother's kids have been this way...head down and ready to go early on, low low low...and then shooting out like rockets at the end!

[BroodyWoodsgal]

Originally Posted by lia_joy

my last (#3) started to feel like that around 37wks. He ended up gestating the longest of any of my boys (40wks 6days) but the labor was fast, just about 3 hours....

Yeah, Avery was born at 41w1d...she was born 31.5 hours after my water broke...but really I was only in super active (using coping techniques) for 1.5 hours. I was about 5cm dilated the one time we checked my cervix....1.5 hours later I was holding a baby...she came like a bullet out of my vagina...a BULLET!

[BroodyWoodsgal]

Originally Posted by Eeyore35

You might be 5cm dialated? Wow,I never made it past 4 in labour.

No no...right now my cervix is high, has nice length and is only about 2cm (at the most) dilated...definitely not 5cm.

[BroodyWoodsgal]

Originally Posted by pjs

Me!Me! I'm guessing I;ve got another 5 weeks- I don't know how I'm going to do it.

We'll make it together somehow...I know I'll get from here to there...I just have no idea what that is going to be like! This feels miserable! This feels like the last 2 weeks with DD...I just have WAY too far to go to be feeling this lousy already. This pregnancy has flown by so far, I hope that chasing my toddler and trying to keep up with settling into our new house will help the rest fly by too...when I consider that I am about a week away from the "30 days and counting" milestone...it just sends shivers down my spine! WHERE DID THIS PREGNANCY GO?!

I'm happy though because I can't wait to give birth again...oh man, I'm REALLY excited just thinking about it!

[kcparker]

Have you tried doing some open knee-chest position (stirrup pants are optional )for awhile to see if you can maybe get him to back out of there a bit and resettle in a position that isn't pressing on your sciatic nerve? That sounds unendurable for another month or more.

[Casha'sMommy]

OP, I find I have a similar situation here and I've never experienced this so early either. This is #5, btw. The others got like this later on but we've got another 10 weeks to go!
I do find some relief simply by putting a pillow between my knees and resting. I also notice that the low down sensation is worst when I've done too much. For instance, our completely full dish washer stopped working the other day and we had a full sink as well. So, I had to wash what felt like every darn dish in the house. I truly needed to rest after that.
I'm feeling that way now, baby way low and pelvis killing me. I think when I walk too much (walk = waddle) I shake him even farther down due to the swaying. We were out shopping for hours so that might explain my current condition.

I think we're eating left overs or sandwiches for dinner tonight because there is no way I'm cooking. LOL

p.s.
That looks like a stirrup jumper! LMAO

[BroodyWoodsgal]

Originally Posted by kcparker

Have you tried doing some open knee-chest position (stirrup pants are optional )for awhile to see if you can maybe get him to back out of there a bit and resettle in a position that isn't pressing on your sciatic nerve? That sounds unendurable for another month or more.

Polar bear pose! Yes...though, I'm not nearly as good at it as stirrup lady...she looks like a PRO! Oh man...I haven't even THOUGHT about stirrup pants since like, fifth grade!

[BroodyWoodsgal]

Originally Posted by Casha'sMommy

OP, I find I have a similar situation here and I've never experienced this so early either. This is #5, btw. The others got like this later on but we've got another 10 weeks to go!
I do find some relief simply by putting a pillow between my knees and resting. I also notice that the low down sensation is worst when I've done too much. For instance, our completely full dish washer stopped working the other day and we had a full sink as well. So, I had to wash what felt like every darn dish in the house. I truly needed to rest after that.
I'm feeling that way now, baby way low and pelvis killing me. I think when I walk too much (walk = waddle) I shake him even farther down due to the swaying. We were out shopping for hours so that might explain my current condition.

I think we're eating left overs or sandwiches for dinner tonight because there is no way I'm cooking. LOL

p.s.
That looks like a stirrup jumper! LMAO

I agree about the doing too much...the last day or so I've tried to keep my activity level more appropriate to the condition of a pregnant lady and I think I actually feel better..ugh...so much to do. So much to do...SOMEBODY has to do it, you know? Everyone says "have your husband do it, that's what he's there for!" - but to be honest, watching him try to do things the way I like them done is soooooo excruciating...yeah, yeah, I know..I need to let go, I'm working on it!