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Menstrual like cramping in back and lower abdomen but no tightenings?
I'm 36 weeks pregnant tomorrow and I'm having menstrual like cramping in my lower back and lower abdomen but when I press my stomach all I can feel is the baby and it's not particularly hard like with some of my BH.
The baby is low but not engaged (second pregnancy) and my cervix is low and closed with no signs of dilation or effacement (I haven't been checked since 33 weeks though). Does anyone have any idea what this is?
I can't bathe since I only have a shower in my apartment :(
2 Answers
- 1 decade ago
During pregnancy for my second child, my mom (a nurse) told me that such cramping is from ligament stretching and the baby resting on the nerve plexus in the ilia (bone arch) of the pelvis. It's normal in pregnancies after the first; it will go away; relax, put your feet up, and get somebody to rub your back for you.
Source(s): mom - Jackie MLv 71 decade ago
My daughter had pains like that at 37 weeks and she was in labour which didnt get any worse until she wanted to push, same happened at 37 weeks with her second child.
