’funny heart feeling’

Sorry I couldn't really explain what I was meaning in the title lol. I've been getting these funny feelings with my heart beat in the last week. I get kinda breathy at times and feel my heart beat thumping up in my throat if that makes any sense at all! lol. Midwife says its relatively common for pregnant women to get it?? Any experience out there? Its kind of scary!

You're probably experiencing a really mild form of tachycardia, or brief heart palpitations - totally normal during pregnancy AFAIK, due to increased blood volume and the heart having to work a little bit harder. If you start getting other symptoms though, or you are in any way concerned, get it checked out.

Pearls wrote: You're probably experiencing a really mild form of tachycardia, or brief heart palpitations - totally normal during pregnancy AFAIK, due to increased blood volume and the heart having to work a little bit harder. If you start getting other symptoms though, or you are in any way concerned, get it checked out.

What are the other symptoms??

Yep i got this aswell, it is quite scary! What I found helped was to take some deep breaths in and out and it passes after a few mins.
My midwife also said its normal.

Other symptoms such as dizziness, swelling, headaches...

Dehydration can also do those things. It can be hard to gauge what is normal and what's not. I've had headaches, dizzy spells and water retention but found I wasn't drinking enough water. You'd be surprised how eating regularly and keeping hydrated can help.

Solitaire I have them to, &  I panic sometimes thinking Im gonna have a heartattack also. Mine are so loud sometimes and it feels like a kind of a throbbing, mine come and go but they are scary...especially when my heart beats double time...

Thanks so much for your replies everyone. I had no idea it was so common! I feel a lot more relaxed now!

I was particularly worried because the only time i felt something similiar was 3 weeks ago when I was admitted to hospital with kidney stones and had a cocktail of drugs put thru my IV line thingee and i went tachycardic... So was worried they'd damaged my heart or something lol silly I know.

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I got that with my first pregnancy and freaked out! Went to docs, had ecg test which showed I was perfectly fine and I got to pay $75 bucks for it - so annoying. I've had it again this time too but didn't worry about it and it will pass eventually so you prob won't have to put up with it the whole pregnancy ;-)

Chickoin I was getting them a lot before getting preg too, but havent had any so far *knocks on desk*

I found that what triggered the 'episodes' was my breathing in and bending down to pick something up off the floor, or get something out of cupboard a little too quickly at the same time... and the only way they would stop was lying down for a minute then holding my breath for a few seconds, and it would stop as suddenly as it started...

I am so glad this is 'normal' lol... I have spent the last couple of years thinking something was seriously wrong as there is history of heart probs in my mothers family..