Contraction pain?

It’s more of a cramp that you can feel building hits a peak and decrease, gives pressure down in to your hips too in my experience x

@Megan thank you! I’m 30 weeks pregnant and I’m getting a few pains recently more just like random shooting pains, hoping they are just round ligament pains but didn’t want to be naive!

Does sound like ligament pain and we are at the point we can get “lightning crotch” where if the baby hits the wrong spot it feels like a shooting pain down below, if they are at regular time patterns then maybe call triage x

@Megan yes it feels like that! I just moved house yesterday so been on my feet a lot more so thought it could be that too, will keep an eye on it. Thank you x

Definitely more pressure in waves than actual pain

Yeah it’s more like a rolling period pain rather than a shooting pain

I didn’t know I was having contractions early on with my first - went in due to bleeding and the machine said I was having them, I then came home slept a full night and it was only the next morning it was obvious that they were contractions.

Does sound like you have lightning crotch pain I often get it more when walking or being more active I have had it every now and than since early on! X

I couldn’t breathe with the pain I was getting x

When I had my first, everyone would say to me "oh you'll definitely know when they happen". I initially thought that was really unhelpful but actually when I went into labour it was completely true. It just felt completely different and much more intense..

Trust me you’ll know the difference haha! Cramping/shooting pains in pregnancy are much different from a contraction pain x