What did your "pre-active labor" feel like?

whitney1170

I know for sure I'm not having time-able contractions, and it's nothing to call the doctor about yet. I am, however, having some serious "gassiness" coming in big and small waves. It's different than I've felt before, and pretty painful.

Did anyone else feel like this, either as "pre-labor" or maybe just in general, having nothing to do with labor?

ohyeahdollface

I currently have an inside baby still, my first. 

I get really bad cramps and I am like, "Oh man! This is it!" and then just pass gas...

Its been happening for about three weeks, so I am assuming it is something I have been eating.  

whitney1170

ohyeahdollface:

I currently have an inside baby still, my first. 

I get really bad cramps and I am like, "Oh man! This is it!" and then just pass gas...

Its been happening for about three weeks, so I am assuming it is something I have been eating.  

Lol that's what I've been telling myself all day! I haven't really passed much gas, so either it's just not "passing", or it's something else. It's so hard to tell right now! And of course my mom was no help when I asked her.

WashingtonQueen

My entire labor felt like period cramps. At first, it was lighter cramps and as it went on they got worse and worse and became timeable (I knew it was labor pretty early because I had a bloody show 2 1/2 hours after the first crampy feelings started). Some people talked about belly tightening with contractions but that never happend with me, only the cramp feeling.

etoyama

The night before I went into labor I had really intense but still not painful BH contrax. I actually felt like it was hard to breathe. Even in active labor, I didnt have the intense period-like cramping I've heard others talk about. It was just like BH x 1000. I felt like my ute was going to explode!

wintermama11

I've been experiencing contractions for about a week and a half now, but they're very inconsistent.  I've had a few stretches when they would get into a rhythm for about three hours and then all of a sudden stop.  Mostly, I feel my uterus get really tight and then strong period-like cramps.  I even had my bloody show on Tuesday morning, but nothing has developed since then.  This is the slowest labor ever!

whitney1170

Crash Into Me:

Let's see...I had some very mild cramping and a pooping sensation-but any time I tried to go, nothing would come out and it was much different than feeling constipated. I had a tiny bit of feeling nauseous, but it was nothing compared to what I felt the next morning.  I had also woken up the day active labor started with an hour and a half of timeable contractions which stopped once I got in the shower.

This is what I'm feeling now, have been for a few hours. It's stronger than normal constipation, and it's not regular, just comes and goes. I told my mom it could last for days...not fun!

StefandTodd

I still have an inside baby, but I have been having very intense period-like cramps low in my abdomen that come in waves (intensity builds and then declines).  I have the poop-like sensation too, and also gassiness with it.  I think it's all the uterus contracting...but yeah, I saw my OB today and she confirmed that it doesn't mean anything is going to happen anytime very soon, and it's all very normal.

My doula did just say that what I described as my night last night is what her latest FTM described happening the day before her labor began, fwiw