26/10/2025
Oh my lord was this not just the last straw when it comes to pregnancy. You think you’re getting to the end of the body take over and you’re pushing on through to the end of the pregnancy marathon and WHAM! It feels like your baby has grown talons and is trying to claw their way out of your nethers! I would be waddling along quite happily when I was suddenly paralysed by the agony for what was only a couple of seconds but my goodness - f***y daggers is ACCURATE!
Well, I was always told it was the baby’s head irritating/ moving on the cervix. Ok fine but did my baby have razors on its head?!
I went on the most brilliant anatomy course last Friday at Keele University in Staffordshire. The type of anatomy course that would have been wasted on me as an undergrad because you don’t know what you don’t know at that stage. But PERFECT when you have been in the game for 23 years. No inhibitions, you want to know everything and can get specific and it’s a fantastic two way learning process between the healthcare professionals and the anatomy experts. Thank you so much and for putting this course together. I could do a lot more of these sessions.
Anyway, back to the f***y daggers. So, in the embryonic stage of our development there is a structure (let’s call it a ligament) called the Gubernaculum that guides the descent of the te**es (which start off in the upper abdomen area) into the sc***um in males, and in females, this structure develops into the suspensory and round ligaments of the ovaries and uterus. We know the round ligaments anchor the uterus to the abdominal wall but they actually carry on down and terminate in our l***a majora (which would have been our sc***um and house the te**is if we were male).
So in the 3rd trimester when our babies are packing on the pounds and in their grow phase, our uterus is expanding hugely. As it does this, the pull on the round ligaments is huge and therefore the tug/stretch/wrench in the l***a majora is felt as daggers or lightening.
? Old news ? Rubbish theory or bang on…. What do you think?
***ydaggers
