Round Ligament Pain?

[Noniegrace]

Mkay, I totally forget what round ligament pain feels like and when it happens. Today I almost feel....crampy? Like if it was cramps it is the lightest cramps ever, and super dull. Like not intense at all but I am generally aware of that area. It feels...heavy? Stretched? Just generally weird. Is that was this is? It is not crampy in the short, intense blasts of pain I would associate with menstrual cramps.

Is that what this is? I am 13 weeks, and spazzing just slightly.

[Basylica]

I'm expecting #2 as well, and i've been getting the RL pain for a couple weeks on and off....really bad the other day...
I don't remember getting it until well past 20w with my son, which of course freaks you out

it actually woke me up this morning...aching stretching across my ab....

[Jess_n'_the_bean]

I don't feel pain really - not cramps like I have known them, but definitely twinges and pinches now and then...and for the past few days have felt really full and heavy in the abdomen - you know when you're ready to get you period any minute and it feels like you;re not sure if you have to poo (gross, i know) - just feels like a lot of pressure and fullness below the bellybutton.

also in the last 2 days it feels like my belly is double the size it was last week...it's not really doubled but it feels like it.

anyone else feeling that way?

[MotherWhimsey]

I have a whole lot of round ligamant pain too. I've had it from the beginning, but now it's just a whole lot worse. This week and last it was so constant that I was worried. I guess everything is fine though. Just what I get for lugging a two year old around all the time.

[She2dancer]

Can a first timer ask what round ligament pain feels like????

[riversong]

When I had round ligament pain with my first pregnancy it was the most excruciating pain I had ever felt! It would only happen on the left side, down almost at my bikini line and it would radiate into my leg. It was like a stabbing, aching pain that would last for a couple of minutes. I would breathe through it like I was having labor contractions. It would often happen to me when I was driving and I would have to concentrate hard not to get into an accident.:

I've wondered if I'm starting to feel a little bit of it now. It's not bad, though. Just a bit of aching and only on the left side again.

[milk_maker]

RL pain (to me) feel like someone is trying to rip something out of my body that doesn't want to be ripped. Mine is focused in the bikini area too and I usually get it when I stand up too quickly or I haven't had enough water to drink.

When I was pregnant with DS I'd never heard of it and all I knew was that I was in PAIN and rushed to my midwife's office swearing I was in labor. She laughed and explained it to me, monitored me for a while, and then lectured me about drinking more water.

[Naughty Dingo]

For me, RL pain is very intense and sharp. It comes on suddenly and doubles me over. Then it is gone. I feel it low and on the sides.

The crampy feelings are normal, and come from the uterus flexing its muscles as it grows and responds to all the pregnancy hormones.

ND

[Fuamami]

I've had a little of this, cramping along the side. And I had a Braxton-Hicks that lasted about 3 minutes on Friday. That made me a little nervous!

[happydoulamama]

Mine feels like I almost pulled a muscle or something- very ouchy and I can usually massage it away. My uterus is feeling "heavier" and my ligaments are definitely taking a beating!

[Noniegrace]

That is a very good way of putting it, that it feels heavier. It's just freaking uncomfortable