What were your pre-labor symptoms?
I've got the regular BH contractions, the cramping, I'm 1 cm dilated... counting down the next few weeks.
What were your pre-labor symptoms?
I've got the regular BH contractions, the cramping, I'm 1 cm dilated... counting down the next few weeks.
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
Cramping, feeling like I had to go #2. Just feeling...off. That went on for about 12 hours until I started getting regular contractions.
squash / 13764 posts
More frequent bh contractions. Other than that, I felt normal until my water broke!
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
I didn't have any. One night, the night before LO's due date, I just started having contractions. I had no BH before that.
pomegranate / 3275 posts
I had pretty regular BH starting at about 30 weeks, and then three weeks before my due date my water broke. I had no signs..... I wasn't even ready for him to come, I cried!
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
A few slight BH contractions, my water broke, and my bloody show/mucus plug came out.
grapefruit / 4819 posts
On Monday night, i had shooting pains that felt like electric shocks down there, which dr google said could be a sign of impending labour. Tuesday I was so over being pregnant - it was an overwhelming feeling that had me in tears (also quite normal to mentally prepare for labour according to dr google). Wednesday, I had the tiniest bit of blood, apparently 'the show' that means labour is imminent in the next 24 hrs. Sure enough, mild contractions started that evening, proper contractions the next morning and LO was born that evening (Thursday).
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
None. I wanted to go into labor naturally but I was induced.
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
I had the shooting pains that @Ree723: described. I had BH off and on for a week or two before. I lost bits and pieces of my mucus plug. The Friday before I went into labor I was 2-3cm dilated. And I had a weird tingling in my uterus.
The Monday night before labor started (started early Tuesday morning) my mom told me she was sure I was about to go into labor because I became obsessive about cleaning out our Brita water filter...I was furious that I could't get the well part out of the bigger pitcher...I went at it for over an hour using a screwdriver and alternating hot and cold water. Mom told me to calm down and let it be, and I yelled at her that the baby couldn't come if the water pitcher wasn't cleaned out. She said that's when she knew it would happen any day, lol.
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
Period cramp like feelings that progressively got worse over a week. When they turned.
It is true what they say, when it's time, you'll know!
pomelo / 5720 posts
Bloody show/mucus plug on Sunday, irregular contractions Monday, water broke at midnight on Tues, baby just after midnight on Wed
persimmon / 1035 posts
i am almost 40 weeks and so far i have had none! no BH, nothing. hoping it stays this way for another week, but then i want something to happen because i don't want to be induced...
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts
Lots of BH, I was dilated to a 3 and 50% effaced, lots of bloody show...of course that was a tease for a few days until real labor started.
bananas / 9227 posts
I *think* I had a bloody show, but it was barely anything - like a spot when I wiped, so I thought nothing of it. That night DH cooked a spicy roasted chicken (we call it the water breaking chicken) and later that night my water broke in bed. I didn't have any contractions. The contractions finally came while driving to the hospital, 2 showers and a ton of changing after (1.5 hrs).
hostess / watermelon / 14932 posts
I lost mucus plug the night before & had bloody show all that day, but didn't realize it was IT until my water broke (twice!).
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
I was in early labor and had contractions for awhile before birth. But the 24 hours before I actually gave birth my contractions got MUCH stronger - but by then I was already 4 cm dilated and like 80% effaced. The night before labor they came every 20 mins or so overnight and kept me up. The day of labor they slowed down but then I went for a long walk and they picked up again - they became much, much more painful that day. Otherwise, no other symptoms. I never lost my mucous plug or had a bloody show before the hospital and my water didn't break until I had my epidural. No abnormal pooping or feeling bad elsewhere.
papaya / 10560 posts
None. But I was exteemelyyyyyy tired and was having a hard time walking because I has such bad back pain...he was right on a nerve. I took the day off work because I couldn't take it anymore and had him that night.
eggplant / 11287 posts
I was dilated to a 5 at 39 weeks and I still didn't have a single labor symptom! Never even felt a BH! I ended up having to be induced and was almost at a 6 when I went in.
honeydew / 7235 posts
I had nothing on Wednesday I was 2cm, 50%, and a -2 station. Thursday afternoon felt crampy, then realize the cramps were contractions and getting worse and closer together.
nectarine / 2163 posts
Nothing, until my water broke 1:30am the day after my EDD! Had a baby by 12:30pm that day
cantaloupe / 6146 posts
None. I had contractions after the car accident at 27 weeks and they were pretty consistent for the next 13 weeks.
My husband thinks I was nesting (cleaned the whole house and the cars) but that was a few days before...
cantaloupe / 6687 posts
No BH contractions for me. I lost my mucus plug about a week before my due date.. I didn't have any other labor signs and I was surprisingly zen on my due date. But the day afte, I was a wreck and felt crampy and terrible and regretted declining an induction...I went to bed feeling like I had the flu (body aches like crazy) and labor started early the next morning.
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