Cramps Worse in 2nd Pregnancy?

[LockandKey]

For the past week I have been getting just awful cramps, enough to make me feel sick to my stomach/nauseous, as well as double over in pain. Some of them are so bad that my sides and my back starts to ache as well! It's just dreadful, I don't remember it being this horrible in my first pregnancy. It actually scares me sometimes as I worry I might be having a miscarriage, I go to the bathroom and check, and there's no blood or different color cm at all. I honestly thought that because my uterus has been stretched once before that it wouldn't be as bad, guess I couldn't be more wrong

Anyone else? Can anyone reassure me that this is normal? Or is it something I should be concerned about?

They last about 1-4 mins, could these also be braxton hicks?

 

[Lostunicorn]

I've been having the exact same thing! I had a tiny tiny amnount of peach coloured discaharge (sorry tmi after dtd) but since then all is well apart from the cramps! Also seem to have really bad trapped wind too.
If you are worried or it continues for a couple of days I'd get it checked just to give you peace of mind but I think it is normal x

 

[Mummy Bean]

oh the cramps this time are MUCH worse, along with the back pain it can really get on top of ya...esp as not allowed any pain killers like would normally take for periods and such. also had the off shootin pain which i really had to take a moment to recover from. i assumed it was due to me only having a baby quite recently (well 10 months ago) but who knowes.

have to addmit it got me worried, but trying to keep calm and hang on until my scan in 12 days.

 

[blakesmummy09]

i think its normal too hun im now 9 weeks along, ive had alot more of them and been worrying so much but i think its where our uterus might stretch faster than the first time because its done it before so it pulls more x

 

[mommy2be2011x]

2nd pregnancy here too, my sister is also on her second pregnancy( yes we are pregnant together ) she's 5 months along ..and when she told me pains were worse in your second pregnancy I didn't think they'd be this bad I even had spotting yesterday and immediately went to the ER ..but yeah omg I have bad pains on my left inner thigh ...I have discomfort on my vajay, I feel way more tired and hormonal than with my first , more nauseated but not in the morning instead at night lol all night long im nauseous , blah I didn't know it'd be this bad

 

[Bluewings]

I don't have as bad of cramps as you guys do, but I definitely feel cramping this time around (my 2nd as well). At first I thought I wasn't going to get a BFP because of the cramps, i thought it was AF coming but because the cramps never went below (AF = heavy vaginal feeling for me), I then knew it was pregnancy cramping. I'm also noticing nausea at night, which sucks because it keeps me up!!

 

[LockandKey]

thanks for the replies ladies it's nice to know I'm not the only one, and that this is probably normal. I asked my cousin as well who is nearing the end of her 2nd pregnancy, and she said she asked her midwife as the same issue had initially freaked her out too, but her midwife assured her it was normal 2nd pregnancy stuff, but I should ask/tell my midwife anyway just so she can take note that is what's going on with me.

I guess if anything, this will help prepare me for the pains of natural labor, and then maybe I will stand a better chance at having that unmedicated birth I wanted. Haha, a blessing in disguise perhaps?