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April 2014 Moms
Mamaengen
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(Long) STM feeling kinda clueless (Am I starting labor?)
Mamaengen
member
So I'm a STM, and I've been on preterm labor bedrest and medication since 27 weeks. At the time I started having a ton of symptoms hit strongly all at once (to include BH all day). I've been doing fine with the pregnancy since then, still having some BH, but nothing major for the most part. Well, yesterday my BH started increasing in intensity and frequency, but has still been fairly tolerable. Today, it strengthened and increased again. This evening my BH has been fairly strong and lasting a minutes. I decided to try the rx of drinking water and laying down to see if they go away about 15-20 min ago. They didn't. In fact, I just had one last (moderate intensity) almost 9 minutes. The contractions are low, near my pubic bone, and movement hurts if I try to walk or budge. (I've been told if it lessens with movement, it's prob false labor.) I know they say you know when you're having real contractions, and I've had a baby, so I feel like I should remember, but I had a false alarm 2 weeks before my daughter came (which is where I am now). I was hospitalized and contractions increased and got more frequent until they just quit at 11pm. When that happened, I didn't know I was having contractions. They showed up on an ultrasound done for fetal movement. So, I wonder if I'm having real ones this time? I plan to call the dr no matter what in the morning if I mKe it that far, but I'm asking for opinions on whether or not I should be assessed tonight. I want to avoid hospitalization before I need it. Any pointers on what I might be experiencing? It started out feeling like intense menstrual tension.
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Re: (Long) STM feeling kinda clueless (Am I starting labor?)
ETA - honestly my second and now this (third) pregnancy I had a lot of contractions that wouldn't go away with rest/water and would pick up, etc just like real labor and then would just stop after several hours. I get that it's hard to tell but really we can't tell you what's going on. Your best bet is to talk to your provider and determine if going in tonight is necessary or not. Or if you're far enough along that they won't stop labor anyway and you just want to wait it out tonight then that's fine too I guess.