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How soon after your bloody show did you go into labor? 
I’m 38w4d and my mucus plug has come out and I had some light spotting from it. I read it could be hours or days. 
What’s your experience?

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For me at 38+5 I went into early labor about 5pm contractions started and only lasted 1 hour and went away. I thought it wasn’t anything... some women can be in early labor for days! Contractions came back from 9-11pm and were consistent, they hurt but nothing too bad. During that time I lost some mucus but never had a bloody show. Went to the hospital at 11pm and got sent home at 1am, the contractions were 4 min apart and never went away, instead they intensified overnight to pretty painful strong contractions, lasting 90-120 seconds and 1-2 min apart. They hurt so bad that I didn’t sleep and was on the bathroom floor in child’s pose just trying to survive through them! I labored at home like that from 1-5am and went back to the hospital bc it felt like I was dying during the contractions! They’re not kidding when they say you will know when it’s the real deal! At the hospital I had to walk the halls off and on from 6-8am to try and help dilation & to get my water to break bc I wasn’t dilating and they couldn’t give me anything to induce me because I wasn’t 39 weeks, I was 1 day short. My plug came out (when I stood up to go walk the halls again) at 8:15am 38+6 and immediately my water broke. Next thing I know baby was born at 11:40am! And as soon as that water broke I was asking for the epidural stat!

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I lost it st 9pm on Saturday and was in full blown labor the next day, Sunday, at 2:30 in the afternoon. contractions every 3 minutes. left for the hospital at 330. and had my c-section at 7:45.

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I was already in labor.

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Bloody show at 8am. contractions all day, consistent contractions starting at 8pm. And had baby at 905 am the next day.

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