![]() You might recall how last week, Daisy tested herself using a cheap test strip from Amazon some nine days after ovulation, to try and find out if we’d been successful after almost a year of trying. Not that I know how finding out you’re pregnant should go to plan. ![]() Over our sausage dinner, we recalled the moment three months previously that we found out Daisy was pregnant. Potentially also it can be caused by a lack of magnesium in the diet, so when we speak to our midwife next we’ll raise it and see if Daisy’s next set of bloods mean an alteration to her diet might be needed.īut generally, ‘lightning crotch’ is nothing to worry about and not an indicator of any immediate problem. While it’s most common in the final weeks of the third trimester, it can happen earlier, as was the case with Daisy, who’s coming up 13 weeks.Ĭauses of it are debated in the medical fraternity, but generally it can come about through baby being overly active and ‘dancing’ in the womb (which is a VERY cool thought!) or perhaps pressing on a nerve. The first thing to say is, it’s a real condition, though the more accepted terminology for it is ‘lightning crotch’ as opposed ‘fanny’. Later that evening – and being careful to put the Chrome settings on my work laptop to ‘private browsing’, lest the IT department were to see my search history – I Googled ‘lightning fanny’ and ‘pain in vaginal area during pregnancy’ to see what came up. It shows the pregnancy is moving on!” 'Lightning crotch' “Oh don’t worry,” she said, looking me in the eye. I sympathised before getting the sausages out of the fridge for dinner. That was pretty bad (luckily, as evidenced by the fact I’m going to be a dad, no lasting damage was done). Perhaps getting kicked in the goolies while playing in the Under-14 rugby Second XV might have come close. I couldn’t think of anything similar pain-wise I had ever experienced in my genitalia that could ever compare to a lightning bolt through labia. It's not often I am lost for words, but on this occasion – as I put my work bag down onto the living room carpet – I was indeed struggling to know what to say. I had to stop for a few seconds as I walked down the vegetable aisle!” I was in Waitrose this morning when it happened - it went right through my labia. “It’s like an electric pain that runs through your vagina. “It’s something that happens during pregnancy,” Daisy explained. I glanced over, worried a neighbour had heard, as the front door was still open. ![]() “LIGHTNING FANNY!!!” she loudly exclaimed. She paused, no doubt to increase dramatic effect. Today I got home from work and, as I walked through the door, the first thing to come out of Daisy’s mouth was: “BABE! Today I had my first case of…” ![]() One of the many things you’ll find about being a dad-to-be (geriatric or not) is that you learn new things about your partner almost every day during her pregnancy. This week - lightning crotch and finding out you're pregnant. I’m Jim, my wife’s name is Daisy, I turn 50 in September and Daisy is 37, and we're expecting our first child - hence The Geriatric Dad Blog! This is a proper, ‘in real life’ read from a man's perspective, so I hope you enjoy and follow the series as we go from pregnancy tests, to first scans, through all the ups and downs of impending parenthood. Welcome to my weekly blog on impending fatherhood. ![]()
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