Did you follow the 5-1-1 rule?

Question

I’ve been having prodromal labor for almost 2 weeks now. Tonight is the night where these contractions are quite bad and it’s taking me a lot to focus on even writing this post. I was last seen at my OB’s by a doctor who wasn’t mine and this doctor told me to go in when contractions were unbearable but then I hear about the 5-1-1 rule and my pain tolerance is also high. I just need help, do I start timing contractions? 
*this is my second baby but first time going into labor myself. My first I was induced.

Answer

With my second I had prodromal labor. I didn't follow the 5-1-1 rule because every time I did I would get sent home for false labor. I went in when it became unbearable. I had my daughter within 15 minutes of arriving at the hospital. I personally would go get checked if you're having trouble concentrating. I knew I was in labor when the tears started flowing from my back labor😂

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My doctor told me for my second that I should follow 6-1-1 instead.  If I would’ve listened, I would’ve had the baby in my house or car.  I went in went in when the pain got progressively worse and when I stood up, I had a TON of pelvic pressure.  Listen to your body.

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I went 4 days past due with my first baby so I wasn’t expecting to go into labor 9 days early with my second, but what I thought was just braxton hicks, we’re actually contractions. When I started timing them, I think they were like 1 or 2 minutes apart and only lasting for about 30-40 seconds, so they didn’t quite fit the 5-1-1 rule, which is another reason I mistook them for braxton hicks. But about  2 hours later, the contractions intensified to a point I woke up from a sound sleep, and roughly a half hour later, my water broke - had it not been for that, I’m not sure how much longer I would have put up with that pain before I realized I was in labor lol but by the time my fiancé and I got my son dropped off at my MILs and arrived to the hospital, I was demanding an epidural and groaning in pain. I never experienced that with my first. I had an epidural well before my contractions reached the intensity they did with my second and my second labor moved so much faster than my first. I delivered my second unmedicated….not by choice lol 🥴

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If your contractions are getting to the point that you cant focus, im thinking you should go in.

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I tried to with my first, but my contractions were super intense and coming anywhere from 3-15 minutes apart and I’d been laboring for over 20 hours, so we decided to call our midwife anyway. When she arrived to check me I was fully dilated and she could feel baby’s head. Baby was born about an hour later. Thankfully it was a planned home birth. But my contractions never became regular. Even when I was pushing, I was still sometimes having an 8-10 minute pause between contractions.
With my second they told me cal whenever I thought it might be time. That time I did actually get to 5-1-1 (pretty much as soon as I started having contractions) but the contractions weren’t super intense so I didn’t think it was time, but called anyway. And baby was born 2h later.

Did you follow the 5-1-1 rule?

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