Ouch!

Sounds normal to me... like your body is preparing for labor! good luck!

oh, and yes, I had the stabbing pain for weeks before I gave birth... and the mucus thing... well, on and off all of my first pregnancy! ugh

I had pinched nerve issues. Does this seem posssible? Otherwise, sorry, but you sound normal. Good luck with that. Becoming a mama is a lot of work. There will be some pains along the way. It makes you strong.

YES! I've had this with both pregnancies. Sometimes it is very painful and I have to breathe deeply. I use it to practice for labor, when I feel up to it. Otherwise I change positions a lot to see if it will stop. I honestly do not know what it is. With my first DS I got it ALL THE TIME from about 30 weeks onward. It was so painful several times that I cried. TUrned out he was breech for most of my pregnancy and was a footling breech at birth. So he could have been kicking me in my cervix. It felt the same way, like he was going to fall out -- like you said. Or like a foot might pop through my vagina at any time.

With this pg, I feel similar stabbing pains in my cervix, but it is not as bad. At my last appointment she was head down. So I don't know if it is just my cervix relaxing, thinning, moving backwards (all that stuff) or what. I think that when I went into labor with my first I was like 3cm dialated, so it could be dilation as well... but I really don't know... hang in there! Tell your care provider & see what they say...

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Hi there... I've had the exact same thing you're describing all three times. The first time I was already dialated to 3cm at 36w and the second time I was 4cm at 37 weeks (I'm not doing any checks this time, I'm just assuming I'm dialating already ). Sounds like your baby is low on your cervix and you also may be dialating as well, since you're having those pains and mucous too.

We're getting close!

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I was 4cm, 90% effaced with my bag of waters bulging for three weeks with ds, he was born the day before his due date. Dialation really means nothing, except that you've already got part of it done if you are dialated. Some women aren't dialated at all one day and give birth the next, so you just never know!