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What were you early labor/labor "symptoms?"
I have been feeling nauseous for two days and am now getting the "poop" cramps. BH contractions seem to be increasing. I was overdue with DS, so this is all new to me. Hoping it's not labor...DH just left for Dallas...lol. Just curious about your experiences!
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Re: What were you early labor/labor "symptoms?"
I had BH a week before I was due and thought it was the real thing. Slightly painful, timeable tightening of my belly, going from small of my back and moving forward. Went to the hospital and got sent home after monitoring for an hour.
The following week, I got the real thing. HUGE difference. It felt like my stomach was being sliced up from the inside during each contraction, but not so bad that I couldnt walk, just had to stop to hold on to something and rock side to side. All I can really say is you will KNOW when they are real and not just BH without needing to ask questions, that is how huge the difference is in the two.
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I was 3 weeks early, so at the time I didn't really pay any attention, but looking back.
1 week before I had contractions, lost my mucus plug and dropped significantly (well that I did notice)
a few days before I felt great! I wasn't exhaused, I didn't hurt everywhere .. for the first time in 8 months I wasn't miserable. I think I also had some loose stool.
And people say "you know" when it is a real contraction ... I was second guessing myself until they hooked me up to the monitor and I could "see" them. I say it is a contraction if it wraps all the way around, belly to back, and squeezes.
I had regular, somewhat painful contractions for a week before going into active labor. They were often 3-4 min apart for hours at a time, but they spaced out at night (20-30 min). They wrapped around from my back and felt like menstural cramps.
They were still going on when I went to my 40w appointment on my due date. The doc said I was 4cm, stripped my membranes, and sent me home. The contractions started to get a little more intense, but still weren't very painful. In fact, I wasn't going to go to the hospital even though they had been 2 min apart for a while because I had already been sent home and they told me they should be nearly "unbearable."
It frustrates me when people say "you'll know" when they're real, because even after my water broke, I could still walk and talk through contractions. It wasn't until about 7 or 8 cm that they really took my full focus, and I would never classify them as unbearable.