any moms go into labor and have no "labor symptoms"?

Basil27 · March 2012

with my first son born at 38 weeks I had all the "symptoms" I was 2 centimeters 80 percent effaced..back pain, lost my mucus plug ..(I know tmi), bowel movements like crazy (i know tmi again)!..cramps etc etc...this pregnancy ...nothing!!!! I am 1 centimeter and have had a few cramps here and there but thats it and its mostly after an internal so I think its more from that. SOOOO is there any hope for me? or am I doomed for the over due baby and induction road!? any similar positive stories?

mben1119 · March 2012

I was 1 cm and crampy after checks for 2 weeks. Then, 5 days after my due date, I had some bleeding and menstrual-like cramps, nothing terrible and nothing timeable. I left work at 4 that day, went home and ate dinner, then convinced my husband we needed to go into L&D because the bleeding was freaking me out. I was 6 cm dilated.

mylove2005 · March 2012

With DS I had nothing. I went to the doc that day and I was 1 cm. i was nit having any contractions or Bh nothing that night I was sitting on my bed patting the cat and next thing I know My water broke and all hell broke out at that point

polling · March 2012

My second baby was born a few hours after I first noticed symptoms (frequent bathroom trips were my sypmtoms). Fast, easy delivery at 39w1d.

2nd time around is often faster and easier.

talitha712 · March 2012

I had no idea I was in labor until my water broke. I'd been 3cm dilated for a week or so. That day I had some BH and some mild cramps, both normal for me at that point (39w3d) but nothing timeable. We got to the hospital an hour after my water broke and I was dilated to 8cm and 100% effaced. My cramps ( contractions) had just started to hurt about 20 min prior to getting to the hospital and didn't get regular until after my water broke.

Wiscisbliss · March 2012

I had BH contractions for months... and the day before DS come I had a few more than usual, but other than that I didn't have any warnings. No lightening, no mucus plug, no dilation, etc. I was at work and my water broke out of the blue. It took another 10 hours for contractions to start.

mylove2005 · March 2012

With DS I had nothing. I went to the doc that day and I was 1 cm. i was nit having any contractions or Bh nothing that night I was sitting on my bed patting the cat and next thing I know My water broke and all hell broke out at that point

meg_2006 · March 2012

I had nothing until I started having contractions a week after my due date. And I mean NOTHING! I wasn't even dilated.

tracyb1023 · March 2012

i went in for my 36 week checkup on a Wed. I was 4cm dilated and had no idea. I started having mild contractions (felt like period cramps) that night, but they weren't regular or very timeable (I figured they were BH, not the real thing), but I went to my doctor (not to the hospital) the next morning at 11:00 am just to get checked again and make sure nothing had changed. I was 7cm!!!!!! I was admitted to L&D immediately and had my baby boy 8 hours later...4 weeks early! Talk about a suprise!

Floridamom224 · March 2012

No symptoms for me! I was only 34 weeks tho. I did lost my mucous plug about 2 days prior, but other than that I had no symptoms...just my water breaking!

Brenna9481 · March 2012

I really didn't have any. I got home from work and my water broke. (I had lost mucus plug because I had my membranes stripped). I knew I was about 2cm and 30% effaced at the time but nothing else that was out of the ordinary. I didn't even start contractions until they put me on pitocin the next morning.

reederah · March 2012

I had false labor pains through my last 4 or 5 weeks of pregnancy (and absolutely no other labor signs)... the day I went into labor I was having them but they were less painful than some of the false labor I had earlier. Other than those small contractions, I had no other labor signs. In fact, when I went in for my 39 week appointment, my midwife told me I was 7 cm, 80% effaced and needed to go to the hospital. None of the nurses there believed I was in labor (and neither did I!). Of course, they broke my water and then it was game on, for-real labor. So very possible to go into labor without symptoms!

KatelynEA90 · March 2012

I was induced but when I went into be induced, I found out I was already in early labor. I had no idea.

HappyToBe2012 · March 2012

I was 4 cm at my 38 week appointment. Never felt a contraction or BH to get there. Though I was crampy after that appointment and check. That weekend I woke up at midnight with 1 contraction. Went back to sleep and woke up at 1am with them about 7 minutes apart. We left for the hospital at 3am when they were 5 minutes apart, got there at 4am and they were 3 minutes apart. By the time I was admitted and moved to my room it was 5am, they were 1 minute apart and I was 6 cm. DD was born at 8pm.

hannahd10 · March 2012

I had no labor symptoms until I was almost at 7 cm. I had no contractions and my water didn't break, I lost my mucous plug the week prior. Other than that, I had no idea.