My midwife warned me that third babies are notorious for throwing moms off guard by presenting with a very different labor process than the older siblings, and boy was she right! With my first, my water broke first and then contractions began and increased and within 12 hours I had a baby. With my second, contractions began and increased and within 6 hours I had a baby. With this little guy (#3), I've been up multiple nights with contractions that keep me awake, getting all excited, and then they just trail off into nothing. Ugh! Just when I thought I had it all figured out... Any other third time mamas getting thrown off their game by baby #3?
Was anyone else so so so exhausted all the time before labor started? I feel like I'm not able to walk 10 steps before needing a nap! Wondering if this might be a sign of my body getting ready for labor to begin. I also have this crazy pressure/ pain on my pelvic floor. It feels like someone has punched me in my pelvic muscles over and over again.
Was anyone else so so so exhausted all the time before labor started? I feel like I'm not able to walk 10 steps before needing a nap! Wondering if this might be a sign of my body getting ready for labor to begin. I also have this crazy pressure/ pain on my pelvic floor. It feels like someone has punched me in my pelvic muscles over and over again.
This is how I've been this past week, but today I had a sudden burst of energy. My due date is tomorrow so I guess we'll see.
My baby has had hiccups for quite awhile at once. Maybe around 15-30 minutes? I have never heard that persistent hiccups are an issue. Baby just doesn't have access to our outside-the-womb methods to make them stop!
I was having contractions and tightness all week last week, and I had a stretch and sweep on Monday and everything stopped. My baby was also really active before and still moves a bit now but nothing like before. I'm starting to think I'm going in reverse and I'll never have this baby!!
My midwife warned me that third babies are notorious for throwing moms off guard by presenting with a very different labor process than the older siblings, and boy was she right! With my first, my water broke first and then contractions began and increased and within 12 hours I had a baby. With my second, contractions began and increased and within 6 hours I had a baby. With this little guy (#3), I've been up multiple nights with contractions that keep me awake, getting all excited, and then they just trail off into nothing. Ugh! Just when I thought I had it all figured out... Any other third time mamas getting thrown off their game by baby #3?
Omg yes. I am on my 3rd girl. Almost exact same births as you have had with your first 2. I am almost 38 weeks now and have had prodromal labor for a month now. I had my first internal and was sure I would be like 4 cm. I am barely 1 cm and still posterior! The false labor is doing nothing. 3rd babies are unpredictable little creatures apparently!
Looks like I'm getting my period when I wiped this morning. Feels like it too! achy back and light cramps. Maybe this baby won't make it to our induction date tomorrow??!
Discovered while doing a NST yesterday morning, at 40 weeks and 2 days, that I was having mild contractions every 5 minutes. I had to be hooked up to the contraction monitor to tell. I realized then that I probably had been having some of these before, but had thought they were the baby stretching. They seemed to get a bit stronger through the late morning and early afternoon, then still be present, then I think get stronger when I took a walk after work. Then they seemed to gradually decrease to the point when I went to bed, there was almost nothing, or at least not anything I could feel.
I really did try to not get my hopes up too much that it was early labor. The midwife in the morning said it might be, and it might not. I feel so exhausted. I didn't sleep well Sunday night. I had to have my husband hold me to get me to relax enough to sleep for a few hours tonight. I know people are well meaning and try to keep that in mind when they ask if anything is going on or act amazed I still am coming in to work, or joke that I forgot to have a baby/he was supposed to come already. Thanking God for the moms that "get it" when I describe my emotions and they are encouraging and sympathetic.
My husband has gotten pretty protective especially when I was having contractions that close bit could barely recognize them as such. I guess he focused on that rather than the midwife saying that once they are stronger is when we need to pay more attention and go to the hospital if they are both close and strong. He seemed to get afraid that I would not recognize them and we would not make it to the hospital. We were just able to have a good conversation where I shared that I understand he probably is freaked out and just trying to keep me safe, but that I think he is contributing to my increasing anxiety. What I need from him is reassurance, a little rub here and there, and trust that when I really know that it's "IT", that I will tell him.
So yeah, overall, I am exhausted in so many ways. I feel like continuing to manage pregnancy is a major second job. Trying to remember baby will be even more challenging to manage outside, and that there is a silver lining to him taking a bit more time...
@Sballerina I understand exactly where you are coming from. Even though having a newborn is even more work and stress, I feel like it's the lack of knowledge of when labor and delivery will take place that is just so emotionally exhausting. Waiting is mentally torturous and I'd love to just get it all over with and move onto the newborn stage. It's like we are SO close, yet so far.
My EDD is Thursday and I've never really put much salt into it until this week. Once it's come and gone, maybe I'll have a different mentality, but right now I'm just emotional and ready.
@CocoR04 : Thanks. Yes, I agree about the "SO close, yet so far" feeling. My husband said something about looking forward to Christmas, and I said it feels like Christmas will be here before our baby! I seriously did not believe articles and women who said that going so-called overdue feels like the baby will never come, but now I get it. I know he will come, but it feels so far away. And yet it *could* be pretty soon. It's tough to make small daily decisions of whether to get more groceries or not. I still have plenty of time to go naturally (my providers will let me go until just before 42 weeks if baby is still doing well) yet I feel with each passing day that induction is more likely. Praise God that I at least have some cervical progress and induction is therefore more likely to be successful.
I thought for sure I was going into labor this afternoon. My lower back started aching, I started to get a headache, I was having a crampy feeling in my groin, and tightening that came with mild pain from my back to the front of my stomach. I even had (sorry for tmi) diarrhea. The only thing I haven't had is regular contractions. I started timing them and it was 30 min to 15 min, then 7-12 min apart. Then they altogether stopped. I'm so frustrated and feel so stupid for getting so worked up. I'm scheduled to be induced next week and I was really hoping I could go naturally. It just seems like it will never happen. As a first time mom I have no idea what to expect and I'm pretty sure my husband thinks I'm crazy.
EDD is officially today 10/28/15 baby boy and I'm FTM. Like pp mentioned, I too have been having tightening but I feel like it's just little guy moving around. I'm kind of crampy, like period cramps and some crazy lightening crotch. I can't really time anything just yet, but I have my 40 week appointment today at 1:45 pm to do an NST and u/s. She will probably do the whole swiffer sweeper (as DH and I like to call it) to my cervix again as well. Who know he might end up being a little November baby like his daddy and other
I am 41 + 1 today and am scheduled to be induced at 730pm tonight-- however I woke up an hour ago to use restroom and lost my mucus plug (finally!!!) and have had mild contractions consistently every 5 mins for 30-40 seconds!! Oh please let this be my Charlotte Quinn!
@sballerina I feel the exact same way. I feel like my baby is a giant tease. I've been having contractions for a month and a half, often regular and pretty strong. They had put me on the monitor early and the amount/consistency/strength of the contractions had them worried. Now here we are 6 weeks later and nothing. Recently there have been multiple days of strong painful contractions less than 5 min apart more than one min long and it doesn't turn into anything. I also lost my mucus plug with dark blood (brown/black) 2 weeks ago. WTF! I'm just ready to be done, and I'm just feeling depressed about it like it will never happen. Ugh!
Went to the dr this morning for my 3rd stretch and sweep- was 3cm dilated and have bloody show but I'm not really feeling any contractions. I feel totally wiped out and sore all over. I'm scheduled to go in to the hospital Sunday night for induction- I'm just so ready for this to be over. I'm trying to rest but I'm so uncomfortable it's hard!!!
Went to the dr this morning for my 3rd stretch and sweep- was 3cm dilated and have bloody show but I'm not really feeling any contractions. I feel totally wiped out and sore all over. I'm scheduled to go in to the hospital Sunday night for induction- I'm just so ready for this to be over. I'm trying to rest but I'm so uncomfortable it's hard!!!
I hear ya. My second sweep is Monday and I'm just done with it all. I hope something happens for you before Sunday night! At Least you've made some progress with bloody show and dilation!!
I'm so sick of all this false labor. Last night for three hours I had terrible contractions. I decided to try and sleep through them and that if I couldn't we would head to the hospital. They ended up tapering off and never amounted to anything. Again. The physical and emotional toll of these false labors is really getting to me. Hubby left for work this morning with me crying
I'm so sick of all this false labor. Last night for three hours I had terrible contractions. I decided to try and sleep through them and that if I couldn't we would head to the hospital. They ended up tapering off and never amounted to anything. Again. The physical and emotional toll of these false labors is really getting to me. Hubby left for work this morning with me crying
Can't blame you for the emotions! I have had what I guess were just stronger BH contractions several times this week, and each time my hopes get up a little that stuff is really happening and we'll be off to the hospital in several hours. Nope. Still waiting on God and this little boy...
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My midwife warned me that third babies are notorious for throwing moms off guard by presenting with a very different labor process than the older siblings, and boy was she right! With my first, my water broke first and then contractions began and increased and within 12 hours I had a baby. With my second, contractions began and increased and within 6 hours I had a baby. With this little guy (#3), I've been up multiple nights with contractions that keep me awake, getting all excited, and then they just trail off into nothing. Ugh! Just when I thought I had it all figured out... Any other third time mamas getting thrown off their game by baby #3?
Has anyone's baby had the hiccups for over an hour before? This seems a little extreme, I am starting to worry:(
I really did try to not get my hopes up too much that it was early labor. The midwife in the morning said it might be, and it might not. I feel so exhausted. I didn't sleep well Sunday night. I had to have my husband hold me to get me to relax enough to sleep for a few hours tonight. I know people are well meaning and try to keep that in mind when they ask if anything is going on or act amazed I still am coming in to work, or joke that I forgot to have a baby/he was supposed to come already. Thanking God for the moms that "get it" when I describe my emotions and they are encouraging and sympathetic.
My husband has gotten pretty protective especially when I was having contractions that close bit could barely recognize them as such. I guess he focused on that rather than the midwife saying that once they are stronger is when we need to pay more attention and go to the hospital if they are both close and strong. He seemed to get afraid that I would not recognize them and we would not make it to the hospital. We were just able to have a good conversation where I shared that I understand he probably is freaked out and just trying to keep me safe, but that I think he is contributing to my increasing anxiety. What I need from him is reassurance, a little rub here and there, and trust that when I really know that it's "IT", that I will tell him.
So yeah, overall, I am exhausted in so many ways. I feel like continuing to manage pregnancy is a major second job. Trying to remember baby will be even more challenging to manage outside, and that there is a silver lining to him taking a bit more time...
My EDD is Thursday and I've never really put much salt into it until this week. Once it's come and gone, maybe I'll have a different mentality, but right now I'm just emotional and ready.
39 weeks 6 days tomorrow! EDD is Thursday
Least you've made some progress with bloody show and dilation!!