Frustrated by prelabour - or is it the real thing?

[Jas]

Oh hun,

I can imagine this is frustrating! The way I would look at it is will it continue to intensify until bubs is born, well eventually it will seeing as u r 9days over but if you still have a few bouts before that happens i would say they r at least helping out to make your actual labour shorter! I hope it happens soon for both of us!

[~clover~]

All my labours started while I was in bed over night, so I think some real sleep would be the best thing if you can get it.
Good luck

[bronners]

Thanks for all your replies - I didn't expect them so quickly! Yes I think just going to bed and taking it easy might be the way to go. Fingers crossed I will be awoken in the middle of the night!
BG - thanks, I will definetely let you know when bub is here! I think after having DS at 40+14 I have been mentally prepared that it could happen again and it is keeping me sane
I wonder if lots of prelabour statistically does make the real thing shorter - is my cervix dilating with all this activity?

[~Raven~]

Sounds like prelabour to me hun Once they start being 60+ seconds then it's business

I know it's frustrating But I think it does help it happen quicker when it starts for real. It did in my case

[~clover~]

I had 20 hours of pre labour with DD2.
The contractions were still 30 minutes apart when I decided to leave for hossy & they hit me 5 minutes apart. When I got there 40 minutes later I was 7cm dialated, so I do think the prelabour was doing something.
It still took 5 hours to get the last 3cm.

[bronners]

Well, everything stopped by about 9pm last night. So I got a full nights sleep and ready to go again today. I'm trying to keep my spirits up....thanks for all your support

[briggsy's girl]

yay for sleep - but grrrrrrrrrrrr for everything stopping - hope it's not too long til your bubba puts in an appearance for you hun!

[~clover~]

Do you have the energy for a walk today?
It might just get things going if your up to it.
Hope it happens soon.

[bronners]

I've had some more prelabour again today, started up at about 10am and stopped at about 1.30pm. The contractions were getting quite intense so I was hoping that either it would just turn into the real deal or stop and give me a break. So after they eased I had a little nap and was woken by another contraction just recently. Just having occasional ones now, not so painful. It's just a bit all over the place. Thank goodness my partner is home as I feel a bit useless and becoming overwhelmed by it all.

oops forgot to add, a bit TMI but I think I lost my plug this morning!