Well, 4 days overdue now and getting impatient already because nothing feels any different. Have some pre-labour pains but it's been like that for a few weeks. I don't feel like I'm going to go into labour or anything anytime soon, I just can't imagine it ever happening!!
So, will it just happen all of a sudden when I'm not expecting it?? Or will I feel somehow different and know that it's going to be soon. I keep expecting to feel different and then feel disappointed that I don't
DD1 - 41+1 - felt no different til I was 7 days over. Had a show that afternoon, but that was it til waters broke at around midnight.
DD2 - 41 - pre labour for about 20 hours...great. Did have thick white CM for a few days before. Looked kinda like clag glue, (TMI)
DS - 39+5 - Nothing. At all. Contractions started at 5.15am, born at 10.15am. No CM, no show, no pre labour, nothing!
Every person, every baby & every labour is different. It will be over soon. Just relax & enjoy your last few hours/days.
Yes, it could. My second labour was like that. I was 10 days over and had not an inkling of anything happening. At all. Nothing.
I went to the loo that afternoon, had quite a bloody show which I was concerned about (because of the amount of blood, my show with my first labour was very different) so called my ob. He said it was fine and just to wait for contractions to start and bam, they started. 5 hours later I was holding my son.
It honestly happened so quickly and was so different from my first labour ('pre' labour for 72 hours, sent home from hospital twice ) I was in denial and the only reason I went to the hospital was because I hadn't felt any movement.
Hopefully your little one will make their grand entrance really soon. Hang in there, I know how hard it can be
My pre-labour signs like you're describing just started to get more intense. It felt like mild period cramping that stopped and started. Then the morning of the day DD was born, the mild upped the ante!
They do say that if you have to ask, you're not in labour (LOL!) and I found that to be true. When your early labour pains become 'true' labour, you know it's on!
For some it happens gradually, for some it happens WHAM!
Either way, it will happen soon enough! I remember it being hard to do myself, but if you can, just enjoy this wonderful free time to relax and read and be absolutely selfish! Cos it will be a long time before you will be able to do it again!
Hey SJ, I had period pain on and off for weeks but that was all, then one morning at 5am after my bladder had me rudely awoken for a toilet run... i started having cx's.
Yep it just happened for me with no warning. I had no inklings at all, hardly any braxton hicks throughout my whole pg. Had a normal day, went to bed as usual and got woken up at midnight by my first contraction. DD was born later that night.
Praying that it all happens very soon, good luck!!!!
Will it just happen all of a sudden?
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) I was in denial and the only reason I went to the hospital was because I hadn't felt any movement.
things start happening soon.
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