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February 2024 Babies 🇺🇸

Labor symptoms or normal 3rd trimester symptoms?

I am currently 35+5 days right now and this weekend I started getting constant diarrhea at random times out of the blue (thought maybe it was from food I’ve been eating but I’ve only been craving cold foods Ike fruits, veggies, salads, etc), horrible lower back pain, intense pressure in my pelvis constantly, my stomach is always tight and I’m getting more and more of what feels like really severe period cramps and not like a “normal” period cramp, the swelling in my hands and feel have definitely gotten worse to a point where my fingers are numb most of the day and my feet look like balloons,
and it seems like my stomach dropped a bit over night. I read that if you’re belly button points more to the floor that means the baby has dropped and mine is definitely not pointing straight ahead (though I obviously have no idea if this is even true or not lol) . I feel like my body has been trying to empty itself out in a way with the bowel movements in the last 48 hours.

Today I’ve been cramping non stop to a point where it’s been hard to walk around and it’s been spreading to like my bottom area, lower back, thighs, and pelvis.

It’s kind of scaring me a bit because 1. I’m a first time mom so I’ve never been through any of this because and 2. It seems too early for this stuff to be starting. I have an appointment with my midwife on Thursday so I’ll be running all of these symptoms by her too. I just hate that their version of abnormal is only if you are bleeding. Everything else is deemed “normal” but sometimes it doesn’t feel normal and I don’t know how to get that across without being shut down about it.

Any ideas or similar experiences with any of this?