The Top Of My Stomach Is Hard Already Im 20 Weeks Preg Is That Normal?

No part of a girls stomach gets hard while she is pregnant. Unless you eat a big meal. The stomach really isn't part of the pregnancy except to get nutrients to the baby from the food the mom eats.


That organ that feels so hard at times, that is holding a baby, placenta and a sac of fluid around the baby is the uterus. The pre pregnancy uterus is about the size of a closed fist shaped like an upside down pear. The narrow part is the cervix which sits at the top of the vagina. After the 3rd month of pregnancy the top of the uterus has grown so you can feel the top of it at about the level of the pubic bone. By 20 weeks the top is about to your belly button. Measuring the change every month is how your doctor monitors the babies growth. Most of the time the uterus is firm like a a kids rubber ball. At other times it will contract and feel very hard like a watermelon. Those contractions are usually just practice contractions but if they start coming in a regular pattern and have enough strength that you have to stop whatever you are doing until it passes, call your doctor or follow whatever instructions he has given you to follow.