I'm 34 weeks pregnant and have lower back and pelvic pain. What can I do?

A lot of women feel contractions during pregnancy and wonder if they need to be concerned.  This depends on how far along you are and how frequent and how intense your contractions are.  You mentioned that you're 34 weeks along and you've been having some pelvic pain and lower back pain.  Contractions can be felt as lower back ache, lower abdominal cramping, and abdominal pressure that comes and goes along with tightening and sometimes people also have shooting pains down their thighs associated with all of these things.  Sounds fun.  I don't know for sure if you're having contractions, the only way you can know for sure if you're contracting is by going into the hospital and getting checked out.  They'll put some monitors on your belly that measure pressure changes so we can see if you're contracting or not if there is any doubt that you are.  The definition of labor is cervical change.  Contractions are only concerning if they're changing your cervix.  Because you're pre-term we definitely wouldn't want you to go into labor at this point and deliver early.  If you feel like you're having 4-5 contractions an hour, which is only every 10-15 minutes, or you have persistent lower back ache, persistent lower abdominal cramping, or you have an increase in discharge, any spotting, leaking of fluid, or feel your baby move less than usual you should go to the hospital to get checked out.  Full term is considered 37 weeks and at that point we won't do anything to stop you but you're still in that gray zone, in that pre-term time where we'd want to stop you if things are going on.  If you have any specific questions about your condition be sure to consult with your OB provider or just go to the hospital and get checked out.  But if you have any other questions for me feel free to ask them on our Facebook page and recommend us to your friends and family too.

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