Pregnant Helen Flanagan has revealed she’s been experiencing Braxton Hicks contractions as her due date approaches.
The Coronation Street actress is due to give birth to her second daughter this week and took to Instagram on Monday night to share an update with fans.
She posted a sweet video showing two-year-old daughter Matilda kissing her “sore tummy”.
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The little girl also kisses Helen’s eyes and nose after the soap star revealed she’s been battling hayfever symptoms and unable to take medication.
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Helen captioned the clip: “My baby girl is so cute 💓 been having Braxton Hicks for a while now in the evenings 🤰.
“Matilda says mummy’s tummy sore 😩😍 and kisses my eyes and nose as I get bad hayfever as I can’t take hayfever tablets with the pregnancy x.”
Fans were quick to praise the sweet mummy-daughter video, with one saying: “This just melts my heart!”
Another said: “She is just adorable. She is going to be the best big sister ever!”
Helen, 27, announced at Christmas that she and footballer fiancé Scott Sinclair, 29, were expecting a second child.
They later confirmed the baby would be a second girl.
Helen has already predicted her second child would be around a week overdue, but said she has enjoyed every part of pregnancy.
In an update to fans via Instagram, she’d said: “I think I’ll be around a week late with my baby girl. I’ve never got to the stage where I’ve felt really fed up of being pregnant with this pregnancy and was so lucky my sickness went towards the end.
“I’ve really enjoyed this pregnancy apart from the first trimester.”
Helen previously revealed she’d suffered from severe pregnancy sickness hyperemesis gravidarium at the start of the pregnancy; it’s the same condition the Duchess of Cambridge had during her pregnancies.
The soap star concluded her post by saying her hectic work schedule at Corrie prior to maternity leave and looking after her daughter Matilda meant the pregnancy had flown by.
She said: “I’ve been so busy with my Matilda and working that it hasn’t dragged, with Matilda I was so desperate for her to arrive and just really hated being overdue.”
“I’m so excited to meet my baby girl,” she added, “but my baby will arrive when ready and I will be equally in love with both my daughters.”
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Helen’s currently on maternity leave from Coronation Street, where she plays Rosie Webster, but has promised fans she will return to the soap.
She has said the couple would like a third child one day, but they want to marry first.
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