Ligament Stretching...OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AmyC311]

OMG I had the worst experience last night! I was shopping at Walmart and then all of a sudden I couldn't stand straight or push my cart. So I call my husband (who fortunately was still in town!!) and he had to come get me at Walmart. It took everything I had just to push the cart to the front of the store and sit down on a bench and wait for him. I still made him buy my groceries..because a girl's got to eat! haha...but I was in sooo much pain. So I immediately hobble to the bathroom and check and pray that I don't find anything red in my underwear! Nothing there. I don't feel faint or nauseas nor do I have a fever so I figure it isn't anything too serious...but I am not sure. The  pain doesn't abate at all over an hour and I can't stand up straight or walk faster than a 90 year old. So I abuse my privileges as sister of a doctor and have my brother pull some strings so I don't have to wait at the ER. I feel silly...because I know the odds are it is nothing and I am just wimpy...but he still says it is a good idea to get checked (even though I can tell he thinks the same). So I have my poor husband take me to the ER. My dr was wonderful and nice and he even printed off like 15 ultrasound pics of our baby girl for us to take home. They had to run a few tests but apparently I am just a wimp who can't take the ligament stretching...however my dr. did mention that there is a slight probability that I was also experiencing braxton hicks contractions and I just might be one of those unlucky people who notice them early. I don't know...it was sooo painful that there is no way I wasn't going to get checked out. I told my husband that I am in trouble if this hurts that badly...labor is going to be h e l l.! :(


Has anyone experienced "double you over" ligament stretching???? I was pretty small and compact in the belly area before I got pregnant so I don't know if it is just my body hurts more because I have to stretch so much more but dang! I am not a fan of this part of pregnancy...

[ovaz129]

Hey girly.... I am getting BH already.  I started getting them last week.  I have had maybe 4-6 thus far.  But, I was reading that some women get them sometime around their 20th week.  So, it is possible :)  I have an appt. on Nov. 4th and plan on talking about it with my doctor.  I am so paranoid that I think that if I am getting them early that I am somehow going to go into pre-term labor... lol!  

My mom always had them starting about week 20, so I know it isn't abnormal.  They are just strange feeling.

[AmyC311]

The pain ran primarily across where my waist band goes. I also had other parts that hurt that I couldn't seem to pinpoint but it was around that area. I would have ignored it and not gone to the trouble of going to the dr except I literally couldn't stand up and nothing made it feel better. Although since I have learned that a heating pad will help somewhat!! The dr wanted to give me loratab but I said no thanks...he said it could drop my baby's heartbeat some so I figure unless I am crying in pain I can tough it out without the drugs.

[tea_berries]

I am not sure if it's the same thing I felt last night.  So I was in bed after hours of vomitting and nausea.  I woke up three hours later and I can't move from bed. I was on my side and I could barely move and baby kept kicking around the pubic bone area.  I got scared but really exhausted from the nausea earlier that I can't even call DH to come over and help me.  

I was in bed and feeling cramp like pains from the right side going to my belly button it feels like it is being pulled in a straight line.  I just woke up because of the pains.  I can't move at all for an hour and finally it subsided and that was it.  I did not feel anything weird after.  

[Jem75]

where exactly was the pain? last night while sleeping I was woken up with a pain in my left groin area - it still aches today - but I can walk and stuff....