Don't know what to believe

[Issheornot]

This is going to sound awful on my part . DD is 36 weeks pregnant for the past 3/4 weeks she had constantly told me she thinks she's in labour. She's been to hospital several times they monitor her and send her home . The last time she told me she was definitely in labour she was told am d her waters had broken . So I went to the hospital when I got there . You could tell she was not in pain . She kept making a half arsed whimper sounds and frown and would go on the gas and air. Doctor Said her waters had not broken and sent her home.

And in general she's gone on and on about all the awful pain she is in. That she can't handle it. But them she's popping into the shops to gry some bits she will take her sin ti the park.

I know I sound awful but I got woken at 3am with DD telling me her waters have broken. I don't know what to believe. Her brother who's only 16 is with her so she's not completely on her own. If need be he will bring her son to me via Uber.

I guess only time will tell! I’m assuming it’s her first? She’s probably anxious and scared. I’d support her as much as I could if I were you. Does she have a partner?

It's her 2nd. She has a boyfriend but he's not there. I do support her best I can but when you have this day in day out it does turn into a cry wolf situation

Braxton Hicks? Anxiety? Is she behaving very differently to when she had her first? Maybe the baby is lying on a nerve, or pressing on her bladder so that feels like her waters breaking.

I just spoke to her on the phone. And heard her in pain . It did sound genuine to be honest . So I don't feel so frustrated now. She's getting a cab to me to drop her son then going onto the hospital.

I'd say she's really experiencing something but that the nature of it is unclear. Taking that position might help tyou emotionally over the coming weeks. I presume you're a key person in her birth plan, so this may just need a lot of patience and hand holding. I wonder if there was a concern about her previous birth that's unsettling her, or if he experience of pain is different to how medical staff measure it.