I hate this - c'mon PROM

hoping4sticky · May 2012

As a second timer, you would think I would know more about this...nope. My water broke first last time so clearly I was having a baby that day. Went to the hospital and apparently I was 3cm and contracting, I had no idea. Nurses kept saying - you can't feel that? Nope. Didn't feel contractions until I was about 5cm and I had a relatively quick labor for a FTM (10 hours water breaking to baby). Anyway, so now I am terrified that I am going to have a super fast labor and have this baby in the car.

Today I just feel off. I am really crampy, my back hurts and the tops of my legs hurt, but I have nothing timeable and my stomach isn't getting noticeably hard. I don't think this is labor, and might not even be pre-labor, but it is really hard to focus on anything else. I am really wishing from PROM so that I can definitively know it is time to go in.

Being a ticking time bomb sucks.

chyscottbaby · May 2012

I know what you mean. I feel like a moron because I think I have had a few contractions, but not 100% sure as I was induced with DS and those contractions were super intense because of the pitocin. So I keep waiting for a real sign that something is going to happen. As of last weeks appt I am 3 cm and was 80% effaced so I am guessing once labor does start it might go faster, but who really knows. I really do feel like a FTM.

Chelsey68 · May 2012

I was feeling this way until some wicked nurse told me theres no way I am having the baby anytime soon (because apparently she must own a crystal ball or something)

When I had DS1 my water broke also, and I didnt really have any pain until I was an 8. If they hadnt given me the epi I would have had the baby in 5 1/2 hours from water break to delivery. (the epi stalled it 2 hours)

Luckily my hospital is only like 10 minutes away. But yes I too agree that unless my water bursts like it did last time ill probably spend hours wondering if its labor or not. And I sure don't want to enter the pitocin palace and not have enough progress. We've yet to have a car delivery story on our birth board so maybe we will be the first? ( I know not funny at all just know that your not alone)

hoping4sticky · May 2012

Chelsey68:

We've yet to have a car delivery story on our birth board so maybe we will be the first? ( I know not funny at all just know that your not alone)

My paranoia was not helped by the fact that there was a mom on DD's board (Nov 2010) that did just have her baby in the bathroom - not a planned home birth or anything. I want to say she was due in April?

wheelsonthebus · May 2012

I've been kind of feeling like that too. I keep telling myself I'll "know" when the time is really here, but it's hard...even as a second time mom!

Gingersnap_mama · May 2012

Glad I am not the only STM who feels this way. My water broke the first time and then started contracting. I went into the dr.'s office thinking he was going to strip my membranes and instead he accidently broke my water. They wheeled me right over to L&D. I also had a quick delivery so now I'm freaked out that if I don't make it my induction date (the 21st) I'm going to have this one on the side of the road (we live over an hour away from the hospital)!

I have also been having irregular contractions for the past week or so, and they are painful most of the time, so I keep over-thinking things. Ugh, I feel like a FTM again!

ColesMommy0606 · May 2012

STM and this is how I feel as well. Yesterday the pressure on my pelvis was horrible and today I have so much tightness in my stomach but nothing I could time. I know in all seriousness that I could go another 4 weeks but I still feel like I'm walking on eggshells. I just want to hear POP! and have a big gush of water!