I'm 18 weeks tomorrow with my first baby and this week have had seriously bad round ligament pain. It woke me up on Wed night and kept me awake the whole night - the only comfortable position was sitting crossed legged - right down my left hand side and into my groin. I went to the doctor's on Thursday and he said it was 'just' RLP and to carry on as normal... Friday and Saturday were totally fine but then I was woken up again with it last night and it's come back again tonight (although tonight it's also under my ribs).

It's so painful I feel like throwing up. All the advice I read says it's a 'short sharp stabbing pain'. Ha! It's so incredibly painful and keeps going for a decent amount of time (and I have a pretty high pain threshold...). It lasts from anything between 45mins and 6 hours so far, and doesn't seem to be brought on by anything in particular.

Baby is fine - heartbeat is still strong and I've had no bleeding so I guess at least that's good.

I wanted to know though - is such extreme pain normal? Do other people have this? When should I worry? Is pain under the ribs normal?? So many questions but I don't think I'd ever heard of this pain before getting pregnant!!

Thanks
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Yes, some girls get it like that I have gotten about 4 instances (one being so bad I was in tears and I still fear it, at 18 weeks). If it makes you feel better, after my last horrid one, they haven't come back

Are you petite? Maybe that is a factor, I don't know. I'm quite petite and had a 6 pack before, so I needed to stretch a lot

I had it like that about 18 weeks for a week. I even went to A&E in the end but it was fine and disappeared soon enough. xx

I'm suffering at the moment too. I have it all over my tummy. I think it's a combination of the growing pains and me doing to much bending over. Have you tried just taking it easy for a while? Hope you feel better soon hun xxx

Yess ive had them terribly bad, all kinds of pains ... i agree with one of the other posters, smaller frames can suffer more (midwife told me) xx

Thanks for all your good wishes girls! I am pretty small and was fairly toned beforehand so I'm sure that has something to do with it...

Hope you feel better soon Philly!!

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I've had round ligament pains about twice that was so horribly bad. The first time I had no clue what it was and it lasted a day. The second time was just as bad and it lasted about a week. It would seriously hurt to even sit at my computer. I would find a spot sitting that was decent and not want to move!!

I can say though, it does get better. Doing the move the in yoga called cat pose, seemed to help it a little bit. It helps back pain too haha