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The Woman Who Cried Labor
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Please tell me that I am not the only one!! I feel so embarrassed and disappointed right now!
Yesterday I was having contractions all day long, but they weren't regular. I have BH contrax all the time and an irritable uterus so I don't take them seriously, even when they get intense enough to the point where I have to focus to get through one. So I went to the grocery store with DH and the whole time I was having contraction after contraction. I mean like 3 mins apart, lasting at least a minute long each. Again, I decided not to take it seriously because sometimes they do that. Well, in the checkout line I thought my water broke, because suddenly I felt a gush of fluid, not a lot, but enough. It felt like it does when you start your period and a little bit of a gush comes out initially. I KNOW I didn't pee. So I kept it to myself until the groceries were loaded in the car and I told DH to take me home so we could put up the groceries, get our bags, have a meal, and then go to the hospital. I called my mom (who lives 8 hours away) and told her that I thought my water broke and I was going to the hospital to be sure and that she might want to start heading in my direction if she didn't want to miss the birth. She was planning on coming down this week to stay until the baby is born. I also called my friend who lives about an hour away and said I'd keep her posted.
So we get home and while DH is loading up the car I head to the bathroom and check my panties. Sure enough, I had some kind of fluid that was not urine. It had no smell or color so I thought it was my waters. We went to the hospital and got into triage. They did a swab to see if it was amniotic fluid and the test came back NEGATIVE!!! They nurse said my contractions were regular and I was only a fingertip dilated, so she said to go home and if my contractions got more intense and whatever to come back, but that my water did not break according to her swab test. I'd told her that I'd had sex the night before and she said that the fluid was probably semen and stuff from that, and it has just not come down yet because of the pressure from the baby's head. But the fluid did not have a smell and I know what semen smells like. DH's in particular has a very strong smell. So I would have known right off the bat if it had been that just from inspecting my panties. I dunno. I have no explanation.
As soon as I got home my contractions tapered off to almost none. I went to bed. Now I am having them again but I am going to ignore them unless they get super intense, regular or not, 3 mins apart or not, because I don't want to go through that again. Having to explain to my mom and my friend that it was a false alarm was super depressing.
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Re: The Woman Who Cried Labor
Ugh, getting sent home from the hospital is the worst feeling ever. That happened with my son, the nurse told me I wasn't in "real" labor (but I really was- my cervix doesn't like to dilate). That night, my water broke at home (I actually felt and "heard" a pop), so I went back to the hospital. The nurse tested my fluid, and it came back negative, but she said she thought my water broke so she kept me.
My contractions never did ease up once they started, but they were 4 mins apart or less for days. I was so exhausted, I couldn't relax enough to dilate. Try to do something that will relax you. I know how horrible this feeling is, and I wish you a quick labor and delivery!
My biggest fear is being in labor and not knowing it. lol. Why can't it be like the movies when all the women say, "It's time!"
Good luck though and I hope when the real thing happen's, you'll know!