Lightening *when baby drops*

[annaica]

 Lightening is a term used to refer to the baby descending into the pelvis.  A more common term heard is the baby dropping.  There are a few signs/symptoms that seem to show that lightening is happening during a pregnancy.  1st- having a sense of relief from the rib cage, being able to take fuller, deeper breaths.  2nd- being able to eat a larger meal without as much stomach upset/heartburn, etc. 3rd- feeling as if the pressure on the bladder has intensified more than it previously felt, making one urinate more frequently. 4th- increased lower back pressure and pelvic/hip pressure as baby nestles down.  Typically this is felt around the 35th week of pregnancy or so, but doesn't necessarily mean you have so long before it's time to have baby...

I am just wondering if any moms out there have had this happen to them yet?  If not, do you remember when it happened in prior pregnancies?  What symptoms did you have or did you even notice any change at all?

[MissiHampt]

Never happened with my son, but my water broke suddenly with no warning a week before my due date.  He never really did move down properly and wasn't in a good position for birth.  I ended up having a c-section.  This baby has been much lower and more out front all along, but it seems like moreso every day.  It became more noticable around 28 weeks, though,  He's always on my bladder and I can feel all his kicks really low, as if he's trying to push out already.  Lots of lower back/pelvic pressure. 

[aknsmomma]

with dd1 I felt it around 36weeks. With dd2 I never felt it, but the doctor said at 37 weeks she was really low and the doctor stripped my membranes to try and get her to come sooner because she was so big. This one has been low the whole time. She has been breech at all my ultra sounds and so it feels like she is trying to kick her way out of my cervix, and then at the end of the day it feels like she is standing straight up with her head grinding into my right rib.

[t0xxic]

Never happened with either of the boys, with this one Ive felt like this the entire pregnancy so idk how much lower she can get lol 

[krbkjt07]

I had that with my son about a month before he was born and he was born about 2 1/2 weeks early, so I was about 8 months, 34 weeks or so. I have been complaining for the past 2 weeks that I feel like this baby is trying to get out, he moves really low and I always have to pee. Its really weird, I REALLY do not think I am going to make it to 40 weeks with this one because of how I feel and how similar it is to my other pregnancy when my son came.