Project Baby Week 35: Pain Pain Pain

On Sunday I felt a squeezing contraction in my lower pelvis. It felt like a ring of pain and gave me a lower back ache which was really strange because I had just had my 1 hour pre-natal massage. The squeezing continued after our ramen lunch and I winced all the way home and through the next half hour or so. I timed the intervals and it was an irregular 13 minutes apart.

Then just as suddenly as it began, the pain vanished.

I was bemused. Baby had been making quite a few movements during this time, and I wondered if he was okay in there. The pain was not unlike severe period cramps and I felt the baby making some dropping movements. It is hard to describe but it was clear to me that something was going on. The next day, I inspected my belly and to my amazement it looked like the baby had gone down a few centimetres. I hollered at Daniel to have a look, and he also agreed that the belly had dropped a little lower.  On top of that, I now had a constant ache in my pelvis, the part between my hip bones which I am still experiencing. It feels like I am wearing underwear 3 sizes too small for me with the elastic cutting into my skin. Walking is a literal pain.

With a little research, I realized that the pelvic pain is likely from the baby dropping lower into my pelvis. This could explain the contractions I had on Sunday, which was probably the uterus squeezing him downward. It's amazing. I am now living with a constant low-grade pain but it's rather worth it to know that Baby's on his way.