At some point in pregnancy, something happens in your body and your immediate thought is: is this it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019d had an antenatal class online not long before. I don\u2019t remember if it was that day or earlier, but it was recent enough that things like Braxton Hicks and contractions were in my head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So when I started getting these pains, that\u2019s where my mind went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They weren\u2019t constant, but they weren\u2019t nothing either. Enough to make me stop and think something might be going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wasn\u2019t timing anything or thinking it through properly. I was just scared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hadn\u2019t prepared yet. I was still working all the hours, hadn\u2019t bought everything, hadn\u2019t properly got ready for the baby. So the idea that this might be labour starting felt like it had come far too soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I called the urgent maternity line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They asked me a few questions and listened to what I was saying, then said it sounded like it could be trapped wind and suggested peppermint tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trapped wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I remember feeling relieved but also quite embarrassed. I\u2019d built it up in my head, called the maternity line thinking it might be early labour or contractions, and it turned out to be something so minor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I made the peppermint tea and that was that. Problem solved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Looking back, it makes sense. Pregnancy pains can feel unfamiliar, and it\u2019s hard to know the difference between Braxton Hicks, real contractions, and something like trapped wind when you\u2019ve never experienced it before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I still felt a bit silly afterwards, but I don\u2019t think I was wrong to call. If you\u2019re unsure whether you\u2019re having contractions or something else in pregnancy, sometimes you just need reassurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even if the answer is just trapped wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you read my last post, you\u2019ll know this wasn\u2019t the first time I thought something serious was happening when it wasn\u2019t. Pregnancy has a way of making everything feel bigger, more urgent, more certain than it actually is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pregnancy has a way of convincing you that every unfamiliar feeling is something serious. In my last post, I wrote about the time I thought I was having a miscarriage when it was actually anxiety and a stomach ache. This time, I was convinced I was having contractions. I wasn\u2019t. It was trapped wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-divergently-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentlybeing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentlybeing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentlybeing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentlybeing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentlybeing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentlybeing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentlybeing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentlybeing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentlybeing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentlybeing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentlybeing.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}