Hi all— ftm! Please excuse this messy af picture. The one on the left is me today, the one on the right was me last week.

I’ve been experiencing pretty much all of the symptoms of lightening this week— and I’m truly barely able to walk. Half the day my husband has to walk me to the bathroom because I’m in, like, crying pain.

Granted, I do have an ovarian cyst the size of a grapefruit. So I’m not sure what pain is the cyst, and what pain is from my baby potentially dropping.

Symptoms:

—serious pelvic pain that is exacerbated by walking and certain positions

—my daughters kicks and hits have an extra umph and I feel them much lower in my stomach/seems like she’s hitting my hips! Her head moving feels like period cramps?

—hemorrhoids

—constant peeing day and night (5 times at night at least?

—pressure in my butt, kinda?

—increased discharge (sorry if tmi, but definitely a wet spot that is not pee in my underwear that I can feel from the other side)

Y’all, I just gotta know— am I getting close?! I’m 33.5 weeks— have a scheduled c section at 39 weeks. Am I gunna make it? Lol

When I looked online it said most babies drop between 2 and 4 weeks before labor. 😳 let me know what you think!