Bladder football?

Hi there,

Have been reading for some time now, isn't this a great wee community. Wanted to say hello to everyone and seek some advice (if anyone else is experiencing this!). My partner and I are expecting our first baby on 26/27 Oct. We're very excited, and the wee darling appears to be doing everything right so far, except he's showing early signs of football/World cup mania! He's taken lately to pummelling my bladder when it's even the tiniest bit full. And I mean a really rigorous battery of kicks, not just the occasional one.

Does anyone else get this? Does anything besides frequent (almost obsessional) emptying of bladder make a difference?

Look forward to the replies!

Riya

Whoops sorry just read that yes this is your first baby too!

Our wee girl has just found my bladder, I think.  After that initial attachment to the bathroom in the first trimester, things had settled down nicely for me, but in the last week I've been needing the bathroom 10 minutes after just going sometimes!!  It's crazy.  And then I'll last a whole evening without needing a bathroom break - very random.  Yesterday I was up town for an hour, and I saw three public bathrooms in that time!  Granted, it was FREEZING, which didn't help.  I'm hoping that this isn't a sign of things to come... but realistically I'd better get over my issues about yukky public bathrooms!! 

I remember that... I used to describe it as "Baby is bouncing on my bladder" whenever I had to excuse myself to use the bathroom for the third time in 15 minutes. Both of mine did it... come to think of it, Kiya's favourite activity now is bouncing on her trampoline!

haha, peeing all the time is usually the first symptom of pregnancy I notice!
At 16 weeks (right through to the end) of my first pregnancy I was peeing every 1/2 hour. Couldn't make it through a lecture at uni without having to excuse myself atleast once.
Then my second (shortlived pregnancy) I noticed from about 4 weeks that I was going to the toilet a LOT more often. Arghhhhhhh.

Yeah im with u all on this one! Quite often I have to pee heaps of times,..straight after I have just peed,..and I pee heaps each time too! In the last few weeks I have started to have what feels like her booting my bladder too,..and I have to pee right then, and its mighty uncomfortable!

Ohhhhh I so know what you are talking about. I am beginning to feel like I really have had enuf! This little fella has been a kicker for about the last month full on (not actually doing much sleeping at all these days) and its mostly "down there".

It better not be a sign of things to come!!

(Jax, what a great tummy shot )

I always wonder what it's like for them in there, they must have to push things out of the way every now and then, and I guess we all have different sized bladders? I've always thought mine was the size of a pea, myself, but clearly my son disagrees!

I imagine mine as being very small and very black and blue. I told my midwife yesterday that I thought Bubs was hitting or kicking it a lot, after checking his position it turns out he's bouncing on it with his head, lol!