Difficulty in breathing with a hard stomach in late pregnancy depends mainly on the duration and frequency. If it lasts for a short time, or is only occasional and soon relieves itself, it’s usually fine. If it lasts for a longer time and is more frequent, you need to go to the doctor to check if it’s a preterm labor and so on.
1. Physiological phenomenon: late pregnancy is always a short period of tightness and hardness of the stomach, dyspnea, if it disappears quickly, and not more than two times an hour, usually belongs to the physiological, most of them do not have contraction pain, belongs to the physiological uterine contraction, usually pay attention to not get cold, do not overwork can be.
2. Preterm labor or preterm labor: if the stomach is hard, the symptoms of dyspnea are more serious, there is obvious pain of uterine contractions, or some are more frequent, each time the hardness is longer, some will promote the softening of the cervix, shorten, and some will be in labor at an indeterminate time, you need to go to the hospital to check the contraction of the uterus and cervix, and be vigilant about the occurrence of preterm labor.
3. Difficulty in breathing that is more obvious should also be alerted to the problem of abnormal respiratory function and abnormal cardiac function, which also need to be routinely go to the hospital for examination.