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It's the "Labor Symptoms" thread! Symptom ?s & Rants go here!

leighann1leighann1 member
edited September 2015 in October 2015 Moms
Hey ladies, 
We are nearing that time. In an attempt to not have 5,304,894 repeat posts per day regarding labor symptoms, and to give you all a consolidated place to discuss symptoms, let's try putting questions here. 

Got questions about contractions, baby dropping, mucus plugs (NO PICTURES!), etc.? Put 'em here. 

Board tip for new posters: many times, individual threads about symptoms get overlooked and don't get very many replies because frankly, most of them are repeat questions and regular posters get tired of answering the same thing over and over again. Hopefully this thread can turn into a great resource for those looking for reassurance and information as we near the end of our pregnancies. 


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  • tate62610tate62610 member
    I'll start, I'm coming up on 35 weeks tomorrow and this kid goes from head down to upright about once a day.  My OB has told me I will have an US at 36 weeks to check growth and positioning and if he's not head down, it's most likely he will stay breech.  So, my question, are any of you experiencing this along with me?  What have your OBs told you?
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  • intheversaintheversa member
    @Tate62610 My baby is head down at 36 weeks however my friend was in your situation. Her baby continuously flipped over the last 4 weeks and finally stayed head down long enough for them to give her the option of inducing then or waiting and having a c-section if she flipped again. She was induced at 39 and maybe 5 days and was able to have her head down vaginally. I'm no expert but maybe it depends on the baby. Has your baby been breach this whole time or have they flipped?

    Her doctor watched her closely and saw her every few days in the end because because she expressed her wishes to have the baby vaginally if at all possible and he agreed. I honestly think with her it was timing. Hopefully your baby flips!
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  • leighann1leighann1 member
    tate62610 said:
    I'll start, I'm coming up on 35 weeks tomorrow and this kid goes from head down to upright about once a day.  My OB has told me I will have an US at 36 weeks to check growth and positioning and if he's not head down, it's most likely he will stay breech.  So, my question, are any of you experiencing this along with me?  What have your OBs told you?
    How can you tell that baby is flipping? I think she's head down, but I keep feeling weird pokes on both sides and am worried she's turning transverse. I haven't felt anything way up in my ribs yet. Maybe she's just short? Wouldn't be surprised because DH and I are both short people...
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  • babybumb1229babybumb1229 member
    37 weeks 5days and I recently out of no where had clear discharge come out. Then went to sleep to wake up a little bit wet went pee saw what I think was mucus plug mostly milky clear around it looked kinda pink then went to sleep and woke up with more discharge called the nurse she says go wait it out as long as I don't have blood coming out I just wanted to know if anyone had this what did you do? And now I feel just alot of pressure lower under my belly button to my vagina.
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  • cderitzcderitz member
    @babybump1229 sounds like you're losing your mucus plug. When I had my first child it came out over the period of 24 hours of so. Lots of creamy booger-like mucus that had some tinges of blood. I was past my due date and then my OB stripped my membranes in the office later that day to move things along even though I was losing the plug. I went into labor the next day. I still had to have my water broken in the hospital and they had to give me photo on as things were taking too long to move along on their own. I had a 22.5 hr labor and delivered a healthy baby girl vaginally. We will see how it goes the second time around!
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  • tate62610tate62610 member
    edited September 2015
    @leighann1 I'll feel kicks in my ribs throughout the day and then around late afternoon/early evening I can feel him turning sideways.  It's A LOT of pressure on both sides and my belly even looks weird when he's doing it.  Then, all of a sudden I get kicks to my hips and I can feel his head jammed up in my ribs.  By morning, I can feel down around my pelvic bone and feel his head there.

    ETA: He is super active in there.  My OB has me doing kick counts and it's never taken longer than 3 minutes to get 10 kicks/jabs out of him.  So it doesn't surprise me that he's doing somersaults in there.
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  • tate62610tate62610 member
    @intheversa he's been all over the place.  Up, down, transverse.  I'm hoping for a VBAC so this little dude needs to get it together!  Otherwise, I'm totally down for close monitoring and just shootin' him out as soon as he's head down lol
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  • intheversaintheversa member
    tate62610 said:
    @intheversa he's been all over the place.  Up, down, transverse.  I'm hoping for a VBAC so this little dude needs to get it together!  Otherwise, I'm totally down for close monitoring and just shootin' him out as soon as he's head down lol
    That's what she did. Her doctor was determined to catch her DD head down and asked her if she was OK with inducing once she was head down. It worked out for the best. My LO was transverse for the longest time and then finally flipped head down and stayed there. I would ask your doctor how they feel about close monitoring for in case the baby does flip. Plus it's still kind of early. 
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  • intheversaintheversa member
    @leighann1 I honestly only felt my baby heads up briefly. I could only tell because she kept kicking me around the cervix and I had terrible crotch lightening that day. Then I felt her back at transverse because she was constantly only kicking my sides and my back and pelvis had a ton of pressure. 

    Honestly I figured out that she was head down when I placed my hands on the top of my belly one day and she kicked really hard in response. After that it was pretty much a constant kicking in that area. Then she dropped and now I feel her feet down by my belly button. She doesn't really flip around a lot anymore thankfully and we've nicknamed her Onery because she will move non-stop and kick me constantly and the second someone puts their hand on my belly she just sits still. I guess she can tell the difference in the hand temperature. Plus she never wants to cooperate during ultrasounds. 
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  • alinic916alinic916 member
    leighann1 said:
    tate62610 said:
    I'll start, I'm coming up on 35 weeks tomorrow and this kid goes from head down to upright about once a day.  My OB has told me I will have an US at 36 weeks to check growth and positioning and if he's not head down, it's most likely he will stay breech.  So, my question, are any of you experiencing this along with me?  What have your OBs told you?
    How can you tell that baby is flipping? I think she's head down, but I keep feeling weird pokes on both sides and am worried she's turning transverse. I haven't felt anything way up in my ribs yet. Maybe she's just short? Wouldn't be surprised because DH and I are both short people...
    I thought my baby was head down due to being able to feel hiccups really low, and her back pushed up against my stomach.  I asked my doctor if she could tell when I was at my appointment of Friday.  She pushed really hard all over my belly, which tickled and hurt a little, and was able to confirm that baby was head down.  She said arms and legs could be positioned to either side of where she was laying, so I would be able to feel kicks/punches on left or right of where she was laying.

    I had looked at these two websites a few weeks ago and how they describe what we are feeling seem to be pretty accurate:


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  • Rikki_5Rikki_5 member
    A lot of times there are no symptoms.  you just go into labor. 
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  • Lulah1Lulah1 member
    I am currently 34w4d and think my belly dropped.  
    The picture attached is week 32, 33 and last night at 34w3d.  I can breath so much easier now and my ribs no longer hurt.  However now I am waddling like crazy, my lower back hurts (nothing rhythmic, just ache from the weight change) and picking things off the ground is almost impossible!  
    My question is:  How soon is normal to drop?  I work on my feet 10hrs a day in a fast pace environment.  I am really hoping to not go early, I'd rather keep working until my due date but feel like I am about to just walk this baby out!
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  • beckles112beckles112 member
    I'm 34 weeks 4 days and baby is head down and starting to drop. I've had about 5 contractions in the past couple days, but they're just Braxton hicks so I'm not too worried.
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  • intheversaintheversa member
    @leighann1 Depending on how accurate that is, I'm having a September baby apparently.

    But we'll see what next weeks check shows. 
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  • FrozenMommyFrozenMommy member
    So what do actual contractions feel like? I've never had this experience outside of the hospital and being induced. My boy has been low this entire time, and with the extra fluid he's flipping daily. No clue where he is at any given time. Last week he was sideways, head on the left butt to the right. Then 4 days later at NST, he had flipped. He flipped during my NST, heart was low left, then high right. But the last 2 days, TMI I know, I have had very loose stool after being constipated pretty much the entire time. I did up my colace, so that could be the cause, but I mean I went from hardly any to 3-4 times a day and loose. So there is that. Then today been having cramps, feeling like puking and pooping all day, with slight tightening of my uterus. I'm obviously not ready at 33.3, but two weeks would be alright with me. I hate that I have no labor experiences to go by, so no clue what my body is telling me. 
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  • lalenalalena member
    edited September 2015
    36 weeks here with Kid #2. Had appointment today. Braxton Hicks contractions, -3 station, 1cm dilated and 50% effaced. Moving along considering last pregnancy no progress until water broke at 40w1d, and even then still a fingertip dilated.

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  • margies2010margies2010 member
    FrozenMommy said:

    So what do actual contractions feel like? I've never had this experience outside of the hospital and being induced. My boy has been low this entire time, and with the extra fluid he's flipping daily. No clue where he is at any given time. Last week he was sideways, head on the left butt to the right. Then 4 days later at NST, he had flipped. He flipped during my NST, heart was low left, then high right. But the last 2 days, TMI I know, I have had very loose stool after being constipated pretty much the entire time. I did up my colace, so that could be the cause, but I mean I went from hardly any to 3-4 times a day and loose. So there is that. Then today been having cramps, feeling like puking and pooping all day, with slight tightening of my uterus. I'm obviously not ready at 33.3, but two weeks would be alright with me. I hate that I have no labor experiences to go by, so no clue what my body is telling me. 

    I never went into labor with my last, but I've had a few bouts of contractions with this one. It feels like baby is pushing his head down into my cervix while my stomach is tightening up at the same time. I never would have thought that it was a contraction had it not been caught on the monitor and the L&D nurse told me what was going on! Stomach gets rock hard. Sorry, not the best description, but HTH some.
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  • LouislLouisl member
    margies2010 said:

    Is anyone having feelings like their cervix is being pinched?! I feel like I'm going crazy! It honestly feels like a lobster has his claw up there and periodically pinching me.

    I think that describes what I'm feeling. It's like my BH contractions have gotten painful since Saturday. Not all, but some. And it does feel like a pinching at the bottom of my cervix. I thought BH are not supposed to be painful, just uncomfortable....??
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  • cderitzcderitz member
    I will say that with my first pregnancy, I was pooping like crazy the two days before the birth;) Seems to be a symptom.
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  • MaryJoyce1217MaryJoyce1217 member
    How do you tell the difference between Braxton Hicks and actual contractions?
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  • MaryJoyce1217MaryJoyce1217 member
    I mean to say feeling wise the difference
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  • tate62610tate62610 member
    Actual contractions usually feel like strong menstrual cramps from back to belly.
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  • floyd1rlfloyd1rl member
    margies2010 said:

    Is anyone having feelings like their cervix is being pinched?! I feel like I'm going crazy! It honestly feels like a lobster has his claw up there and periodically pinching me.

    This! It feels like the baby is trying to claw his way out of my cervix, buy I've only felt this fir the past two days.
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  • leighann1leighann1 member
    tate62610 said:

    Actual contractions usually feel like strong menstrual cramps from back to belly.

    And real ones are regular, get closer together, and don't improve if you change positions or drink water. Right?
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  • LiveNLove44LiveNLove44 member
    leighann1 said:
    Actual contractions usually feel like strong menstrual cramps from back to belly.
    And real ones are regular, get closer together, and don't improve if you change positions or drink water. Right?
    @leighann1, yes. You can time real ones and they come at predictable intervals, often becoming more frequent over time when labor is near. I had labor stall with DD, but the contractions didn't go away entirely, they just spread out and then continued to get closer together later that day. My contractions start near the bottom of my uterus and increase up and around, enveloping my whole uterus and being strongest in the bottom half. They won't feel the same when they are 15 minutes apart as they do when they are 2 minutes apart (they increase in intensity as they are closer together). I recommend a contraction timing app.

    I've noticed that a lot of people say they feel it in their backs, and I did not, so I just want to throw it out there that you may not feel it in your back.
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  • JAZsaxJAZsax member
    I am 38 weeks, and yesterday was so sick to my stomach from having fairly consistent contractions...they only ended up being BH. It was rather annoying, because I just felt horrible pretty much all day.
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  • LydiaPickLydiaPick member
    Thank you for starting this thread! I am having many of the same symptoms as you all and it's great to hear I'm not alone! I'm a FTM at 36 and 3 days. Over the past week or so (after having no BH at all, I don't think) suddenly I'm getting many BH contractions all day....and also some which my Dr told me yesterday are probably "real" contractions. They feel different because in addition to my whole belly getting hard I am getting moderate to intense "period" cramps down low and in my low back at the same time. A few days ago it was so painful that I actually had to practice my breathing and couldn't talk...but most are not that intense- and very sporadic throughout the day/night....nothing I can really "time" yet. I'm also having new pooping issues ha....this is all so much TMI. I'm going more frequently now and often it is very difficult- some constipation issues that are pretty painful.

    As a FTM I wonder....you moms who have done this before- did you experience symptoms like this for several weeks or does this sound like it might be "go time" soonish for me? I went to Dr yesterday and I was suprised to find out- I'm 2-2.5cm dilated, 60% effaced and "-3" station. She said she could "almost definitely" feel her head when she checked my cervix (meaning she is head down) and said I could probably go into labor any time but also could still go to my due date (Oct 11th). I know some people walk around 2 cm dilated for several weeks but considering all my other symptoms too...anyone want to throw out an anecdote for me or say what they think might happen for me? I'm getting really excited that she will come early now(excited because we are potentially in the "safe" zone for an early baby now) :) BUT I'm also trying to prepare for her to be like a week late randomly and just put up with these symptoms for another 4 weeks haha.
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  • jstmbghjstmbgh member
    LiveNLove44 said:


    leighann1 said:

    tate62610 said:

    Actual contractions usually feel like strong menstrual cramps from back to belly.

    And real ones are regular, get closer together, and don't improve if you change positions or drink water. Right?

    @leighann1, yes. You can time real ones and they come at predictable intervals, often becoming more frequent over time when labor is near. I had labor stall with DD, but the contractions didn't go away entirely, they just spread out and then continued to get closer together later that day. My contractions start near the bottom of my uterus and increase up and around, enveloping my whole uterus and being strongest in the bottom half. They won't feel the same when they are 15 minutes apart as they do when they are 2 minutes apart (they increase in intensity as they are closer together). I recommend a contraction timing app.

    I've noticed that a lot of people say they feel it in their backs, and I did not, so I just want to throw it out there that you may not feel it in your back.


    FWIW in my birthing class they mentioned that this "slowdown " in contractions is pretty common.
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  • MandahGirlyMandahGirly member
    I have definitely been feeling a lot of menstrual like pains, sometimes they are dull but sometimes I have to pause and take a few breaths. I really want to try to avoid timing contractions to where it drives me crazy but maybe I should? I hate how it's so different for everyone!
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