Labor soon? 37w3d and FTM 🤞🏼

Question

Share your stories about what things happened to you before labor officially started!!
Some things I’ve had today that are definitely out of the norm:
- I had this constant period cramp pain and belly tightening for about 45 minutes straight, was WAY more intense than Braxton Hicks. Not sure if mild contractions or what?
- My feet have been swollen to all hell for the past 2 days straight
- so much discharge I have to wear a panty liner and change it all the time
- after the intense cramping today I am now just having some belly tightness and sharp pain in my pelvis/back/upper thighs. Waiting to see if cramping comes back
Hoping my body is giving me some signs that labor will come to me soon 😓

Answer

I had prodromal labor so I started going into labor at 38 weeks exactly. And I would have contractions every morning. At first they were  like BH but then as the days went by they started getting much more painful. And at 38+4 I was admitted at 5cm dilated and then I couldn't feel my contractions 🤣🤣 they gave me pitocin. I dilated to an 8. Stayed at an 8 for 7 hours straight while they kept upping my pitocin. Got an epidural and gave birth about an hour afterwards.

Answer

With my first, I had him on his due date, nothing really different. Just had a real contraction and then 20 minutes later another and then it kept going. My second was 12 days early. I was in SUCH a bad mood. I felt terrible, just like everything hurt, i was ridiculously swollen and I was beyond fatigued.

Labor soon? 37w3d and FTM 🤞🏼

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