I have been obsessing lately about this, so I figured I would post and see if anyone else has had a similar experience. Two weeks ago I didn't feel well, had back pain, my stomach was rock hard, felt sick to my stomach, and had weird abdominal pain that was also shooting down my thighs. My doctor had me come in and he did a cervical check and found I was 1.5cm dilated at 33.2 weeks. I spent the next two days in the hospital getting IV's, steroid shots, shots to stop contractions and Procardia pills. I was having contractions every 3 minutes and it took a really long time to get them to slow down. Baby was a champ the whole time this was going on and kept a steady heart rate and did not seem to be bothered by all the hoopla!

I'm now 35 weeks and the doctor said they are not going to stop labor if it begins again. I had an appointment this past week and I am now at 2cm dilated. Yesterday I had pink discharge and a lot of cramping and today I have a moderate amount of cramping. I'm wondering if anyone else had pre-term labor/dilation a little early and made it to their due date? If you didn't make it to 40 weeks, when did you go into labor? I am anxious because I feel like I'm a little early to be dilated like this, but this is my first baby and I have no idea what to expect. I thought I would take after my mother and be at 41 weeks with a totally closed, stubborn cervix!