This past Saturday, at 26 weeks 6 days, I had a really rough evening. I swear our son was resting on my bladder all evening, and I felt like I had to use the bathroom every 10 minutes. Despite that discomfort, my husband and I were able to have and enjoy sex that night. Afterwards, I had SEVERE cramping on my right side that was radiating to my back. I tried EVERYTHING to try and get it to subside without success, and after about 2 hours I couldn’t handle it any longer. I was concerned because I couldn’t feel our son moving anymore, and I couldn’t get the cramping to stop. I knew it wasn’t labor, because the pain was constant, but something seemed very off, so we went to the hospital in the early hours of Father’s Day. They found our boy with the fetal doppler, but he was moving around so much that the nurse couldn’t get a consistent reading, but he was ok. She also put a monitor on me to measure contractions, which showed that my uterus was tensing, but no contractions. After being hooked up for about half an hour, the cramping subsided. They did blood work to confirm that I wasn’t going into early labor (I wasn’t) and I was sent home. I am so grateful that our baby is ok and still cooking, but now I’m nervous to have sex again, assuming that is what caused the severe cramping. I don’t see my doctor until the end of next week, but am I overreacting about what happened? I know I was right to go to the hospital because of the severity of the cramping and because I could no longer feel movement, but I just don’t know what to think about intimacy as we move forward.