First happy late thanksgiving!
Second: starting around 3 yesturday, while eating spicy cheese dip, my back started to hurt. It was constant at first then after about 20 min it felt like really bad spasms. Then about an hour later it started to hurt in my upper belly. Around 430 it started in my back, wrapped around to my tummy. It deff was bh. It hurt. Started out about 15-20 min apart but guessing cause I wasn't timing them. Got in the car to leave and had 2 that seemed pretty close so I times from the end of one to the beginning of the next: 10 min!! It was that way for a good 2 hours. Got home and took a hot shower. All it did was slow then down and make then not a bad. I ended up getting bh. Went to bed around 11 and kept waking up to random tummy pains and back pains. I also lost several small chunks of plug. And I noticed that when I got one of those contractions, I felt pressure down low. It also made me need to pee.
This morning, I feel ok. Bh all over the place but nothing painful grr!! So I hope to go walk around somewhere and enjoy really spicy food lol
I had weeks of prelabour ( I was dilated at 36 weeks) I found it helpful to take a bath to ease my back and stomach. Also some up and down stairs to get bub down low
The hardest part is to not obsess about it. It consumes all your thoughts!!
a vaginal exam won't tell you how close labour is. Even more with subsequent pregnancies, you can be dilated for days or weeks before labour starts. Or it can appear nothing is happening, and then things will progress quickly.
can you plan a few things to make your mind off it? get a massage or pedicure, organise coffee date with a friend, take the kids to look at christmas lights (if they are up).
That's true.
Not really. We are fairly new in our town and don't know many people. We tend to just stay home or go into town on weekends. If we had xtra gas, we would go see lights but it's out of the way. I try not to think about it but seeing I've only been induced, these pains are new to me.
I feel like I'll go pretty fast. My first I was 0 then went to a 2 in a week. Then went to a 4 in 2 weeks. Stated pit and had him in 4 hours. My second I was induced at 0. Had to do cervidol and pit. All due to fluid level. This little girl has plenty of fluid and I was a 0 about 2 months ago. Not even a finger tip.
Feeling odd today. My mind tells me today is the day but my body isn't listening. Weird I know. Woke up thinking I need to eat cause I won't be able to later??? Idk.
My pelvic area, including my girly parts, hurt. I've gotten 3 painful contractions down low, but noting else.
I've been really emotional to. Like crying one min to laughing the next. I can't eat much when yesturday I was shoveling food in. She hasn't changed positions just not able to eat much.
So I know it's impossible to stop obsessing, I was doing what you are last week. In the end, I had to accept I can't control this, so I'll just deal with it when it happens.
People kept telling me that I'll know when it's the real thing, wow... Did I ever? I started off thinking I was constipated, but within 10 minutes I knew it was the real thing and was calling the hospital.
FYI - I had no bloody show, no breaking waters, no diarrhea... All the stuff they say you're 'meant' to have on the day/s leading up to the labour. I woke at midnight in pain, 2.5 hours later I had a baby.
What I am trying to say it over analysing everything got me nowhere, so you're better off just using the time to rest and get ready for the challenges ahead.
I was just going to say the same thing as PZ. Try not to think "Is today the day?" every day. You can't make baby come. He/she will come when they're ready. If you're only 36 weeks, realistically, you could still be pregnant in 5-6 weeks time. That's a long time to be wondering if you're going to have bub today. Try to forget you're close to giving birth. Just live life as you do every day. Get on with things and bub will come when they're ready. Sometimes if you're stressing about why baby isn't being born NOW, baby isn't coming because you're stressed out or anxious about it all.
Try to relax. Do what you can to relax. You say you're new to your town, then go to a playgroup or something and meet some people. Go and have a coffee and cake at a cafe. Go to a new park and soak up some sunshine. Go for a gentle walk around the streets close to your house. Go join the library and read some books. Try to keep your body lightly active and your mind busy or you will send yourself crazy!
Wish I could do that stuff, but my dct doesn't want me up much. I do walk the mall here and there tho.
Anyway, I'm so emotional it's driving me nuts!! I have feelings of being left out and all this. I know it's not true tho.
I'm still loosing a bunch of plug. They are small, about the size of a pinky nail. Today I saw some and they had a brown tent instead of white.
Also those contractions started up last nite, 10-12 min apart, then stopped after about 2 hours. Very intense to where I couldn't bend over cause it hurt soo bad in my bum area.
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It could be today, it could be 5 weeks from now. No point stressing
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