What were YOUR pre labor signs? And how long after did you have baby?
Question by April =): What were YOUR pre labor signs? And how long after did you have baby?
Would love to hear personal experiences of pre labor signs you had and then how long after you went into labor. Did you lose your mucous plug? Did you have any common or uncommon signs? And also did you show that you were dilated/efaced at your OB check ups? How much and how long till you had baby?
I am 50% efaced and 1 dilated today at my check up. Last week i was dilated only 30% efaced. So im progressing!! I am 37 weeks monday! Also, I have been having menstural like symptoms, cramps and back aches and shooting sciatica pains down my butt to my calf for the past two days!!
Would love to hear your signs!
Best answer:
Answer by momoftwins
Didn’t have any. If I didnt’ freak out and assume my water broke (actually peed my pants in my sleep *blushing*) then I could have waited a little longer.
Since I was already in the hospital they decided to just induce me.
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Mine were…way more cramping than usual!
Contrations!
Once you feel like you have to take a dump
than your baby will be here soon..lol
well i had my membranes sweeped and was spotting day 1 and day 2…..day 2 went to the mall and in the parking lot my water broke all down my pants. had my baby via c-section 8 hours later
i had contractions went to L&D was 1cm dilated went home contractions got worse went back and i was 4cm waters broke while being examined plug came out during labor gave birth to my daughter after 3 hours of labor and 15 mins pushing
I Didnt loose my mucous plug.. i was having twinges up my back to start with whilst i was hhaving my nails done lol.
i went to the hosp 4hours after feeling these pains, (was 8days Over due) They Checked To See How Dialated I Was.. 2cm.. Then 6 Hours Later i Had My Daughter.
Good Luck
xx
I lost my mucus plug on wednesday morning and had a few braxton hicks which i thought were real contractions… boy was i wrong! Anyways I saw the doctor that afternoon and he said all is good and I could deliver anywhere from 2 hours to 2 weeks… I was not thrilled to hear that…
That Saturday morning, about 3:30 my water broke…
After hours and hours my son was finally born at 4:26am Sunday December 9, 2007
I woke up with my water broken at 1:42am started having contractions half an hour after that. They strted at 2 minutes apart… Got to the hospital and was 9 cm dialated and then thats it had him at 5:41 am
All up it was 3 hours 59 minutes
I was a few weeks early
well…mine were all induced, and since i had inducement i couldn’t honestly tell you what natrual contractions feel like, i’ve only had pitocin contractions which i hear are suppose to be worse, but like i said, i wouldn’t know the difference.
#1 due to group B strep and my needing antibiotics on board before delivery. my water was broken at the hospital after i was given pitocin. labor lasted 6 hrs, delivery 30 mins, no drugs. i was dilated to a 2 already before the inducement but felt nothing more than braxton-hicks.
#2 due to gestational diabetes and a stomach flu i was induced. labor went well, they broke my water at the hospital after i was given pitocin. labor was 13 1/2 hrs delivery was a wicked 10 mins! she was coming fast! lol, no drugs. i was dilated to a 1 before inducement, felt discomfort in hips and pressure in pelvis before inducement, and i had horrible back labor plus i had a stomach flu and was puking all during labor, what fun.
#3 due to gestational diabetes and group B strep-double whammy! i was induced. my water was broken in the hospital after i was given pitocin. labor was 12 hrs, delivery again was only a couple minutes, no drugs. i wasn’t dilated at all before inducement. he was breech, and they did an external version before i was given pitocin the night before delivery, that was uncomfortable to say the least.
my oldest son is my step-son so i got to have all the joys of raising him w/out all the pain of birthing him! LOL
your body is definitely getting ready but don’t get your hopes up too high (like i did)… i was 2cm dialed for 3 weeks. my weekly checkups were every wednesday. after my 39 week appointment i went back the next day because i started having contractions and this being my first baby i didn’t know what real labor felt like.. so i went to get checked at the doctor first (because my hospital was an hour away and i didn’t want to drive down there just to get sent home for false labor) and it’s a good thing i did that. i was having contractions, but they were irregular and not progressing me at all… they just plain hurt. they stayed this way, all day every day, anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes apart. the following tuesday after dealing with the pain and no sleep for 6 days, the contractions and cramping pains felt different that morning, stronger when they came, and when i went to the bathroom there was bright red blood. not a lot, but enough to scare me. i didn’t realize it was my mucous plug but it probably was. i called my doc crying into the phone and said i couldn’t wait until tomorrow, it just hurts too bad… i could not walk or talk through them anymore and they seemed more regular. on his advice i went back to the doctors office, not the hospital, to get checked again. after 30 minutes waiting in the waiting room for an available doctor, sitting on the heart monitor for another 30 minutes, them taking their time checking my blood pressure and stats, the OB came in to check me… and his face turned white. i was 6cm dilated and he could feel my son’s head very low!! he told me to quickly get dressed and get to the hospital.. this was at about noon, and my son was born at 8:21pm.
the menstrual like cramps and back aches are very very normal, and doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going into labor soon… but it could. everyone’s different! once your pains feel very very tight and extremely painful in your stomach and/or back, you can’t walk or concentrate through them, and they’re consistently coming at least every 10 minutes, you just gotta hang in there. baby will come when he/she is ready, and it’s totally worth the wait!! congrats & good luck!
i felt fine just a little cramps and then i went to the bathroom and my water broke and then i went to the hosptial and about 5 hours later the baby came.
I didn’t have any (or didn’t realize I was having any at the time) until I woke up and went to the bathroom and then realized my water was broken. I gave birth later that day, 4 weeks early.
Now looking back, the day before my water broke I had all sorts of signs that I just figured was “normal” such as lower back pain, stomach pain (I thought I was just gassy) and waves of crampy like senstations (which were contractions)
My water broke. I had been having Braxton Hicks contractions, but was just 1-2 cm dilated and not effaced at all when my water broke. I had started having contractions about every 5 minutes by the time I got to the hospital and they were checking to see if my water really had broken, but I was still just 2-3 cm dilated. My doctor decided to put me on a pitocin drip to induce stronger contractions. I checked into the hospital at about 10:30pm and gave birth at 4:03pm the next day.
i was 2 week advanced from my expected due date. The cramping started around 10pm and i was trying to ignore it because i thought it was only a false labor. But then again, you will know its already true labor when the contractions get stronger and wont go away. I went to the hospital around 1 am and had the baby at 4 in the morning. My water didn’t break when i had my contractions even when i was already 7cm dilated but even if when you experience stronger contractions atleast every 5 min ( i timed it) go to the hospital right away.
I didn’t have any pains oir anything the night my waters broke.. Was fast asleep in bed and thought i wet myself lol…. I went to hospital coz i had streaks of mec in my waters they induced me… But i werent getting any pains at all xxx
I did some research for you. Go to http://www.pregnancy-info.net/QA/answers-1_cm_dilated/ and you will see a number of women claim to have been anywhere from 1-2 cm dialated and up to 80% effaced yet walked around for another 2-3 weeks.
It’s always normal to be excited and “done” with pregnancy when you reach your 9th month but statistically speaking you will go full term- unless of course this is your second or so child and previous pregnancies were early deliveries.
Get walking as that has been proven to move things along faster as well as make your delivery so much easier.
Best of luck!