To think this is labour and not sickness bug??

[growingno3]

Currently 37 weeks and feeling very much exhausted. Baby is weighing 7lb11 her head has been engaged for around a month and a half. Yesterday I started feeling off a bit queezy very tired some cramps. During the night I kept waking up with awful cramp still feeling sick but didn't throw up until four this morning. Went back to sleep kept getting cramp and have been sick again once more but don't feel as sick as I did yesterday. I'm sure I'm having contractions but with two previous sections and my first being an induction I don't really know what to expect. My lower back is killing my stomach feels very tight and is worse if I'm moving around. Called the midwife she's insisting it's just a stomach bug and I shouldn't go get checked. AIBU to think she's wrong??

It’s really difficult to say. You may be going into labour. Equally it may be a sickness bug. Regardless, if you feel like you need to get checked over that’s totally reasonable. Call the MAU and explain you feel you’re going into labour and will be attending to get checked over. They won’t refuse to see you. Good luck x

It may well be labour. I didn't have any of the usual signs (waters breaking or plug loss).

Can't do any harm to get into the right birthing headspace.

Just turn up at hosp if it will reassure you. Again, it can't do any harm to get checked over.

I was sick throughout both my labours. Back pain/period pains were how I would describe my early labour pains.

Have you tried timing the cramps to see if there is any pattern?

It's hard to know...it could be Braxton Hicks, it could be labour or it could be a bug (but surely you would be sick more than twice if it were a bug), I don't understand why a midwife would talk you out of getting checked out. They should be reassuring you.

Are you having a section this time? If so it is important to get checked out as it may be dangerous for you to be labouring and may need an earlier section (this happened with one of mine) and even if you are planning a VBAC you still need to be checked/monitored closely. Good luck!

That's how 2 of mine started so definitely could be labour

Well it sounds like labour OP. I'm 35 weeks, Tuesday night I woke up with a mouth full of stomach acid and (TW!!) the desire to throw up, I also had some loose stools the day before which was a relief from the relentless constipation I've been feeling recently. I did wonder whether this was it (3rd baby) but things have settled down now, so goodness knows what that was.

If I was you, because you're 37 weeks, I would get checked just to make sure you're not dilating. Good luck xx

@RaspberryChouxBuns it equally sounds like a bug. I agree she should get checked over but let’s no let scare anyone unnecessarily.

@Happyplace88 I don't think my post is particularly scary? If you're pregnant and get to 37 weeks you can give birth at any time. Labour isn't something to be scared of.

I'd wait and see if the pains worsen. If it's a bug you don't want to spread it round. Could be something you've eaten.