False Labour on my due date!!!

[boybump]

Hey all, after that post about the full moon I got all excited when I woke up at midnight this morning with strong contractions. My due date is today and I had strong, painful contractions with back pain for 5 hours. They started off 6 minutes apart and some at 10 but always back to 5 or 6 mins for about a minute at a time. Then at 5 am they just fizzled out and I've been getting one or two an hour since. I am exhausted from lack of sleep and frustrated. My previous 2 labours didn't start stop. Anybody else experiencing this?

[LuluHB]

I've lost track of the amount of times I've thought yep, this could be it, as opposed to just BH, so now I just put everything down to "a pain". Its all a bit tease I think! I keep joking that I'm going to be sitting in a pool of amniotic fluid and still saying "its just a pain". For both our sakes I hope they stop being warm ups soon and we get on to the real thing.

[SamiH]

I had sporadic labour with DS for 40 hours (starting at 11.30PM - how rude) and I was so exhausted with minimal sleep etc that I went to the hospital and told them I wasn't moving until he had been born

DD my waters broke on due date at 5.30am - and big fat nothing - had to go in at lunch - still nothing - had to have anti's in case of infection and STILL nothing - until the sun went down, then I had on and off contractions through the night again so was stuffed for the next day when the real stuff happened.

If you can SLEEP SLEEP SLEEP LOL

Good luck

[~Raven~]

Sounds like pre labour to me Can't be too far away now!

[boybump]

Still here - just little niggles now. Feel like crap. Hoping thats a good sign - shaky and nauseous - probably just tired tho - going to attempt to get some sleep tonight. Have a doc appt tomorrow arvo which I didn't think I would need - looks like I'll be seeing him. V. frustrated. DS 1 was 3 weeks early and DS 2 was 4 days early so going to term is weird- I feel like I've been waiting for weeks! I 'walked' on DS1's trampoline this arvo ...can't bring myself to jump!
Doc was talking about a cervical stretch if I go to 41 weeks which I'm not sure about - all my other labours have had no intervention and I've really got no idea what a stretch entails or how it affects labour. I'm hoping bubs will get a wiggle on and let me do my own thing!

[Ange80]

Ive been having this problem for 4 weeks now.

Im now 8 days overdue but am getting a C section tomorrow due to medical reasons.

Good luck girls i hope it happens for you soon all i can say is gets lots of rest.