When did you realise you were in labor? what were the first signs?

[TeniBear]

I was induced with both, so it night not really count...

With Ianto I realised it was finally kicking in when I kept waking up to pains every five minutes. It was more that they were regular than they were painful that made it click that I was actually in labour.

With Amelia I was awake, so I noticed it much earlier and easier - small pains that annoyed me and made me restless. I couldn't stay sitting so I got up and paced through them for an hour or two.


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[Miss.B]

With my first DS I had the most horrible pack pain ever, so bad I almost couldn't walk (everyone thought I had pain associated with a large fibroid growing in my uterus only to realise later I was actually in early labour). It was followed by period like cramping and bleeding shortly before DS was born (total labour was almost 3 days). Hard to say how the labour would have gone had I carried the bub to full term though. With my second DS I had a scheduled c/s but had BH from about 24 weeks. Around 35 weeks I had this enormous pressure 'down there'. By 38 weeks I thought I was going to pop! lol.