Scary day!!! Shortness of breath?!!

[Teec4]

At work today around lunchtime I started getting tightening of my upper and middle tummy and then I would get short spells of shortness of breath.. It scared me so much!! Was an uncomfortable tight feeling.. I'm only 19 weeks so knew it was to early for Braxton hicks.. I also had more discharge then normal today.. Watery and slightly white sorry tmi!! So I sent myself into a panic and rang my ob who suggested I go to hospital to get checked.. Hospital said all is ok if shortness of breath is accompanied with nauseaous and chest pains then to go back.. Anyone else had this around the same time? I'm a first time mum so I'm a bit shaken up by it and trying to just relax about the whole situation! Xx

 

[katherinegrey]

I'm only 16 weeks and I've been having shortness of breath for about a week now, this is my second pregnancy, but I didn't get it with my son until much later on. My doctor said it was normal.

 

[Teec4]

Have u had shortness of breath and ur tummy tightening at the same time?? I have had a lot of shortness of breath throughout but today it only happened when my tummy would tighten.. Very weird..

 

[MummyToAmberx]

BH can start as early as 12w women are unlikely to feel them until in 20w.

I think ive had couple in week 16/17.

As for shortness of breathe totally normal but it only gets worse before it improves (due to baby growing and pushing up on the lungs)

 

[Unexpected212]

Oh gosh I've had this really badly from almost the start and it's been getting worse. It can be due to anemia which I have in pregnancy.

I went to see my doctor and he said it was a combination of extra blood flow, compression of lungs and my anaemia and not to worry too much.

Keep an eye on tightenings and watery discharge. Probably completely normal but worth keeping an eye on.

 

[junbait]

As a pp mentioned BH can start early. This is my first pregnancy and I've felt contractions like that since 12w (only reason I know those were contractions were because of the way my uterus tightened when I have orgasms ) but with BH they came at random times and completely pain free and the uterus stayed tight for only a few seconds before completely relaxing.