Low enough to worry???

[drguruncs]

This is my second pregnancy and day after tomorrow I will be 21 weeks... with my daughter I carried low, but nothing alarming. This time I am carrying VERY low (I guess?). They said the baby should be at my bellybutton by now and it still is just below it. Sometimes I'll feel a highkick at my bellybutton but the most activity is still right at a low-cut bikini line.... I hear about others feeling their babies "descend" or as I know it "Drop". W/ my first, I didn't notice her "drop" because she was already so low that her head was actually playing a cork in my pelvis which was the only thing stopping my water from breaking, lol. If this baby "descends" I swear I think it would come right out! It even feels like if it took a good low kick I'm afraid I'd look down and see a foot. lol. I'm wanting to know if anyone else had a similar pregnancy?? Did it pose a problem?? It's constantly making me nervous and I guess I just want to know if I'm the only one w/ a goofy uterus and if I can expect the baby to be getting out of that general area any time soon to where I can bend down without shooting pain across my lower abdomen? Also side note- weight gain to date is 8 lbs total this pregnancy. Any input is greatly appreciated and putting my mind at ease will make yall my heroes. lol. TYIA

[chitten]

What are the possible complications of carrying low??

And at what point should it rise up high??

I havent got a scooby doo :-/

[drguruncs]

jump on board the boat of confusion regarding the question of carrying low, lolol. This is number 2 for me and it's lower than last pregnancy (which I didn't even think was possible! lol).

[chitten]

Ive been told im carrying really low - im 21 weeks 4 days with a little girl.

Ive never been pregnant before so this is all new to me and i dont know what is normal or what isnt.

She mainly kicks low and only sometimes around my belly button.

Got neasured at m/wife yesterday she says im 22cm which is spot on. She doesnt seem to have any concerns.

Should i be worried????

[drguruncs]

My due date is correct, and my doctor had told me before that my uterus sits further back than normal.... never gave me a medical term for it but it didn't seem to alarm her, so I assumed I shouldn't be alarmed either. lol. No one told me anything regarding my uterus the last time.... so.. I don't know exactly what to think. When I lay on my back I will feel it just slighty under my bellybutton still. I wake up in the mornings and see a hard balled up spot on either my far left or my far right side (this one is just like my first and likes to sleep with it's butt in the air. It's big ole noggin is big enough that I can always tell where it's at, LMAO! runs in the family. My daughter finally grew into her's after 2 years! LOL). But this time, the baby will curl up into a spot where I can't even stand up strait because I feel like it decided to take my fallopian tube and hoola hoop with it. It's usually to my left but sometimes it likes to throw me off and nail the right side as well. So it's definitely not ectopic. I have cramped since day 1 with this one and just constantly felt pressure in my lower abdomen and not a fun one. lol. I felt the baby move VERY early on because it stayed just at my pubic bone until I was 16 weeks. This will sound weird too, but when it kicks, I'll even feel it on my tailbone at times. I feel like my body is ready to flip me the bird with this one. I have a hard time cleaning anything anymore it seems and I can't even sit with my knees together, I have to sit indian style or something because it's so uncomfortable otherwise and for me to only be rounding the 21 week marker, this doesn't sound right. lol. I have an ultrasound on Tuesday and praying everything proves to be ok. If I can't go natural, then I'll live with that but to me it's more gut-wrenching to find out something is wrong.
I also have a move coming up. We have our pre-inspection on Monday and the movers come May 26th. We will be on a ferry for two hours to another part of Alaska followed by an hour drive to Anchorage, there for a few nights then a 5 hour drive to our new home in Homer. So this is a VERY bad time to have to be really taking it much easier than normal.. :( On top of the fact that I have a 3 year old who is already proving to be VERY hyper and a husband who will be on a boat for the month of July followed by the month of September and so forth every other month.... lol. So it's just me here to take care of my daughter during the day and when my husband is gone. My family is about 4,000 miles away. lol.
and as most of us know- leaving a man to clean...... and clean right and to sort things right, most of the time, it wont happen. DEIFNITELY not with mine anyway. LMAO. He tries... he just sucks at it. LOL. Organization is a BIG thing with me especially being military.. I can't stand being in limbo or things just tossed here and there... baaaaaaaad juju around me. lol. Sorry, that was my little vent there... that man has been driving me nuts lately regarding help when I need it. I can tell he doesn't take it seriously when I tell him that I AM in ALOT of discomfort and it is SO hard for me alot of times to do alot of things that I normally do... and I end up doing it anyway even in pain, etc. cuz if I don't, it wont get done. I intend on having my doctor have a little heart to heart with him regarding this pregnancy. He thinks since last time even carrying low I was still go!go!go! that I should be this round. Wish I was, but my body is telling me otherwise.... OK! DONE VENTING!!!! Sorry sorry sorry! :(

[hanacabana]

I am EXACTLY the same amount pregnant as you (21 weeks sunday?). When i am sitting or standing the baby and the kicks feel below my belly buton but when i am laying than can be anywhere from quite far below to a little above. I had a doctors apointment on Monday and he said i my funday measurement was right (i was scared because im still not showing very much when i stand up). Where is the baby positioned when you are laying flat on your back? Can you feel it? Then and only then is it supposed to be around or slightly above the the belly button. When you are standing it just depends on you muscles and whether you've had babies before or how you personally hold the baby.
Has the doctor told you it was measuring up wrong?
Or are you just assuming?

[Riot_Queen]

I'm not carrying low, I'm actually carrying REALLY high.
My bladder was higher up when the docs were trying to put a cathader in me, than most people. Which meant that my uterus was also higher up.
So out of every so many women, there are people like you and people like me, who either carry too high or too low.

Me being only 16w2d, and carrying high, this baby is already kicking me in the ribs when that shouldn't happen for quite a while!

So I guess I got the opposite effect as you do.
Low, pain in the abdomen.
High, pain in the ribs.

We're unfortunate I guess.
I'd be just as worried as you are with yours though because atleat I don't have to worry about a foot or something coming out. lol.
But it's not that great when the baby gets bigger it's gunna make it very hard and this thing'll be kicking me in the friggin organs!
Like kick me in the stomach n make me puke or kick me in the lungs or something. lolol

I guess I'd just say for you to take it easy.
Every woman is different.
We just got unlucky with a misplaced uterus. lol