Hi everyone. I'm 40+12 today and have had stop start contractions for the last 3 days. Friday they were 12-15 mins apart all evening but stopped when I went to bed. Saturday night I had a few twinges and lost the mucus plug, abd then was up from 3.30 am Sunday as I couldn't sleep through them. Managed to have 2 half hour naps Sunday morning and then took it easy all day with a walk and a meal out, by 6pm I was having contractions every 2.5 - 4 mins. Caught about an hours sleep waking up with every contraction until 1am I couldn't stand lying down any more and got up. The contractions were still 2.5 - 4 mins apart and this lasted until 4am when I got to the hospital only to find that everything had slowed down and I was only 1cm dilated so they sent me home.
The contractions are now really irregular unless I'm trying to sleep and then I'll have a contraction that wakes me up after about 5 minutes.
I don't know what to do! I'm exhausted, can't eat and have already vomited and had so many trips to the loo that there can't be anything left inside me. I can't bear the thought of having to go through another day and night without sleep and it's making me cry. As soon as I drift off I'll get a huge contraction which feels like my abdomen is going to burst but as soon as I get up, back to nothing.
I'm booked in for induction tomorrow but don't know how I'm going to get through today. I wish the hospital would drug me up so I could at least recover some energy. I don't think I can go through another day like that again
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