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If the baby engages in the pelvic you can feel confident that the entrance to your pelvis is big enough and the probability is that the space inside your pelvis and the 'outlet' will also be big enough for your baby to pass through. During this time you might exp erience significant emotional changes as the hormonal balance of your pregnancy shifts. These anxieties tend to fade in the final weeks of pregnancy, and women often become quite fearless and confident about the adventure ahead.
As labour approaches, the balance of oestrogen and progesterone changes and the natural level of prostaglandin increases. Because oxytocin levels are highest at night after 37 weeks, these tightenings tend to happen when you are trying to sleep. Being able to catch up on sleep during the day in the final weeks is important. Research has shown that women who have had more sleep in late pregnancy have shorter labours.
Pre-labour or Braxton-Hicks contractions, will be softening and thinning your cervix and working to move your baby into a better position for birth.
On the whole, they are not powerful enough to start to open up the cervix. The key difference between pre-labour or Braxton-Hicks and early labour contractions, is that pre-labour contractions do not change over time. I will not be impressed if little madam has spun around or dis engaged herself. She really is liking my tummy lol xx. Breech feels really different to when i was pregnant with Abi and got feet in my ribs. It really is like a massive hard lump in my ribs! It doesn't help that mine is breech with legs extended so is theoretically 'standing' inside me!
Which is why i get head so high up. Swollen feet during pregnancy is very common, but that doesn't mean you have to be uncomfortable.
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