Whether your water broke right away or you were having contractions every 30 min... How did it start for you and when did you realize it was the real deal??
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I had bouts of "false labor" for 5 nights, then the 6th night (Monday night to Tuesday day) they didn't stop.... they didn't really get closer together either. Finally that night (Tuesday night) I called my MW and let her know I was in early labor after I had my bloody show. My contractions stayed the same through the night and that next morning we all decided that it was the real deal... slow moving, but definitely it (Wednesday)!
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I had been cramping all day, but it was nothing new as I was cramping all week. I went with my SIL that night to get pregnancy pedicures (she was also pregnant, but about 5 months earlier than me). I got home that night and went to bed around 10:30, and I had a really painful contraction in bed as I laid down. I thought that it might have been a contraction, but wasn't sure. About 5 minutes later, I had another one. I downloaded a contraction app just to start timing them, and it was definitely the real thing!
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I had no signs of labor until I woke in the middle of the night and had to go #2. Then light menstrual like cramps began and I started noticing they had a rhythm. I knew it was real when a shower didn't help and they kept getting more intense.
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My water broke and it wasn't a big gush, just a constant trickle. I was pretty sure it was my water right away but I waited to make sure it continued before I woke DH.
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i started having contractions close together right away with both kids. they were so regular i knew it was the real thing. my water broke with charlie 5 hours or so after contractions started. they broke my water with olive.
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I woke up at 8:00am feeling uncomfortable and so I bounced on my ball. They were about every 7-10 minutes apart for about an hour but were getting more and more painful. At 9:00am they all the sudden were 3 minutes apart so I woke up DH and he got up and sat on the couch, I asked him what he was doing and he looked at me all disoriented because I was so calm he didn't realize I was having contractions and needed to leave ASAP! That is how it started
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Well, I woke up with back pains that I couldn't sleep through around 7am. They were coming regularly, but pretty far apart (like 15-20 minutes). They stayed that far apart for a while...I sent DH to work at 11. He came home early at 6pm and they were about 8 minutes apart and getting more painful. By 11p they were coming every 4 minutes and lasting about a minute and a half. I went into L&D and they sent me home because they stopped. I came home and they started coming every 2-3 minutes and I was in so much pain I couldn't think. I went back in to L&D at 3am and had progressed to 5cm so they admitted me. Until that moment I didn't really believe I was in labor, lol.
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My water broke around 8:00 am the day before my son was born. Made an appointment with my doctor to make sure it was my water, it was. They said go home, rest, eat, let them know when the contractions started. If they didn't start on their own, I was supposed to go to the hospital at 8:00 next morning. Contractions never stabilized, not even after they started induction through pitocin. Henry was born at 4:28 that afternoon and they said it was easy birth, quick, even with the pitocin and lack of stable contractions.
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With my first, my water broke and then I started having strong contractions about 2 minutes apart. With my second, I started out with contractions 2 minutes apart. When that lasted longer than 5 hours, I decided this was not the false labor I'd been having for the last week and went to the hospital to get checked out.
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I went in to be induced, they started with cervidil to soften the cervix before they started pitocin. A few hours after inserting the cervidil, I turned over in bed and my water broke. Labor started immediately after my water broke, no pitocin needed.
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I was laying in bed at around 6:45am when I heard and felt a pop. It turns out, it was my mucus plug falling out and my contractions pretty much started immediately. They started at 10 minutes apart and were between 3-5 minutes apart by 2:30pm.
I realized what was going on when I was feeling the contractions regularly. I also called the nurse at my doctor's office to make sure.
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Thanks everyone - this is super helpful!!! I'm 39 weeks and have been cramping all day off and on with some serious BH thrown in. I don't think it's anything serious but was curious how other people's labors started and progressed. Hopefully I'll know the real deal is happening soon enough!
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Mine started with my water breaking! I started having contractions about an hour later after going on a walk to breakfast (about a mile away). R was born less than 7 hours after my water broke!
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Mine started after my water broke.
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Both time with contractions. Lol. But I could tell they were contractions and not BH because they wrapped around from front to back. Soon after timeable contractions started, I had lots of stringy, mucousy discharge. That's the way both of my labors have started. My first labor started at somewhere around 41 weeks (we have no idea when my actual EDD was, but the midwife could tell by looking at my son and my placenta that he was actually a week overdue- for all we know, I could have been 43 weeks, lol) and my second labor started at 39 + 4.
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my water broke. lol.
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My labor came out of no where on my due date. My first two contractions were 4minutes apart and lasted a minute each. After this went on for an hour I knew it was the real deal.
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My water broke at 3:30 in the morning!
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My waters broke at around 530am one morning and I started getting what felt like period pain, but worse. I was eight days overdue so I was pretty sure it was the real deal!
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I had the same experience as @mrskc. Menstrual type cramps with a rhythm, that slowly intensified. Water broke while bouncing on my ball a few hours later.
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My first sign was my water breaking at 1:30am. I thought I'd peed, but it just kept coming.
Immediately after that I started feeling menstrual like cramps that were exactly 5 min apart, so there was not really any way to convince myself that I wasn't in labour!
I must have been having contractions that I couldn't feel before that though, because by the time I got to the hospital (at 2:30am) I was already over 3cm dilated
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My water broke in the middle of the night. Contractions started after when they started me on pitocin.
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I lost my mucus plug first thing Sunday morning, and started having contractions in church around 10 am. They started getting painful and close together around 1 pm, I'd guess? My water broke as we were walking into the hospital around 545 on Monday morning.
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I had contractions sporadically (15-30 minutes) at 5:30am, but didn't want to get my hopes up in case they went and away. I knew it was the real deal by that night (10 minutes) , and they were close enough together to go to the hospital about 24 hours after they started.
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