Could it finally be starting??

[goodlifemummy]

Hi I am 39+6 today, and this morning had mild contractions (or BH??) for an hour or so , 10 minutes apart, then nothing. I have just spotted some blood in my knickers, only the size of a 50p piece, no mucous or anything, just a spot of blood (gross, sorry!) Is this normal? I am a vbac, so no idea what to expect!

Thanks in advance

I've booked a private scan for tomorrow morning as I need to know!

Hope everyone else is ok?

cj i dont blame you, i would probably do the same. hope he's head down, ready to go.

nothing doing here. a few regular but very mild pains after shopping today, a bit of increased discharge/damp patches.

if doing the christmas food shop doesn't coax this baby out, nothing will!

saying that, i have to get dp's pressie tomorrow so she is guaranteed to try and spoil that isn't she??

am tempted to book a really nice restaurant for tomorrow night, or an expensive hair cut. try a bit of sod's law

Hi mumatron I was exactly the same as you today, went food shopping and had some mild pains and discharge which is all gone away now. I'm starting to go slightly madder

i'm driving dp insane now, poor man cant even have a conversation with me. i have been a bit obsessed keen on getting labour started and may have talked about it insessantly once or twice. he politely reminded me i'm not even due until fri and that i was pretty sure the dating scan was wrong by about 8 days so maybe i should calm down abit........

i cried..........

in asda................

Oh dear mumatron, I know exactly how you feel. I just gave up halfway through shopping, went to the cafe and sat down and left DH to it. Poor man is currently cleaning the kitchen having cooked a very lovely dinner. I whinge and moan constantly and had a quiet cry earlier for no particular reason. I'm not due till Saturday so my ridiculous impatience really isn't warranted. But the fact that I keep getting these pains and bloody Braxton Hicks has me totally on edge the whole time. Plus his head has slipped even lower in my pelvis so I can barely walk at all at this stage. The idea that I could be like this for another two and a half weeks is enough to send me right over the edge and I'll probably drag poor DH with me!

well, i've worked out that opening up 'contraction master' to time my contractions makes them disappear.

i can feel the tears coming again!!

Hi everyone, I am 38+5 with dc2 and I am glad to know I am not the only one going through these start and stop false labours! I cant remember being so big and full and uncomfortable with ds1 and he came out 9lb 5oz after 24 hour induced labour ending with an emcs

Yup I've had the same thing mumatron. At about 10 last night my BHs started getting a bit painful so I left it for a few hours and then started timing them and discovered they were three minutes apart. Of course that freaked poor DH out and he insisted I call the hospital, even though I knew they would just tell me to relax as they weren't really that painful. Rang the unit and of course immediately they stopped, she told me to get some sleep and ring again if anything else happened.

They're back again now, every 3-4 minutes or so, uncomfortable but not painful and have been going for hours I'm just ignoring them. As far as I'm concerned now I have to be writhing in agony before I'm going to take a blind bit of notice of anything my body does (baring a huge gush of waters of course). Have a cry if you feel like it, it might help a little bit.

Welcome to the club Mewli! How are things with you today?

Hi all

Just to let you know, I had private scan this morning - head very deep in pelvis so great news!!

As it's my due date, I'm not expecting anything to happen (trying the 'sod's law approach too!)

WOD/Mumatron, sorry you both seem to be suffering - the thought of another two weeks of this is unbearable isn't it! Although, I've not had any BH's for 2 days now???

Have been shopping today, getting the last few bits but am so tired now, had very little sleep last night so think I'm going to bed for a few hours. DH is currently being wonderful and fielding all 'have you had it yet' calls, looking after DS and trying to keep me sane!

Glad to hear your good news CJ! And happy due date!

I'm not feeling too bad today, although I have got myself in a twist about whether my waters are leaking or not. Keep getting very small amounts of watery discharge on my undies but I had that a few weeks ago too and when I was checked they said it was just ordinary discharge. I don't want to go and get checked unnecessarily but at the same time I don't want to take any risks. I wish I could just relax and enjoy the run up to Christmas and the baby-free time DH and I have together but I'm just so tired and annoyed it's hard :(

wod are you me? i am having exactly the same conversation with dp now. shall i go and get checked even though im 99.9% sure its not my water?

don't know if i can face it tbh.

cj glad scan went well. and happy edd to you

That's so weird mumatron, maybe you're me in a parallel (but equally annoying) universe! I've decided I'm going to hang on for a while, and just try to relax as best I can. I am so impatient to meet this baby it's unreal. I sort of have myself convinced it's never actually going to happen!

well, i doesn't seem to be my waters. had an hour on the monitor and could see some contractions, they weren't too painful though.

cervix is 'slightly open' which i assume means less than 1cm. also say it's central? no idea what that means.

mw wasn't 100% baby was head down but doc had a feel and is happy she's the right way up. she just has a bony bum!

4/5th engaged, mw said could be anytime, just waiting for contractions to sort themselves out.

only problem now is i really want the baby to stay put until after xmas morning at least.

if i was to go into labour tonight i might not be able to come home for 48hours after the birth, so would rather not chance it.

any news goodlife?

I'm not being smug and it certainty wasn't my attention to patronise anyone. I was lucky, blessed. All I was doing was sharing the things that helped me in my labour. There are women on this post in labour looking for support I was simply trying to give them a positive story. All women are different and all labours are unique, but I don't understand why if someone tells a horror story about birth it's ok but I tell a positive one and it's seen as smug and naive.

There are many things we cannot control in labour, like the position of the placenta or the size of the baby but there are things we can do to make the experience better. Breathing, visualisation, moving around and water won't help everyone but they do help many women. The fact is we are made to give birth and if we trusted that and believed that our bodies are capable I think more women would have more positive experiences.

Just my opinion and i am sorry if i have upset anyone. I hope the ladies in labour are feeing powerful and able, good luck.

Yogabuff-I agree with all u have just said,your first post just came across like 'you can control your labour,like I did with mine'.
Thankyou for explaining your opinions in more detail.and sorry for snapping.

Good luck ladies....waiting for news.

yoga i took your post in the spirit it was intended, but hen again i had two relatively easy births previously. if they had been a bit more difficult or if i had needed intervention then i might have been a tad offended.

thanks for the good wishes though.

mumcah no news lots of pains and back ache. no doubt now i have said i want her to stay put she will be making an appearance soon!

Hi there writerofdreams and everyone else. I seem to be more of a night time lurker. I managed to do some Christmas shopping at ASDA and then just watched the panomara episode on cheap food . I wished I was rich enough to shop locally or organically but for now every penny counts :o
I normally look forward to Christmas and love entertaining but this year's theme seems to be: "get baby out!" so I cant really concentrate and enjoy Christmas like I usually do. It would be easier if I didn't have these huge active belly in front of me and worries about how would we end up this time!
Yogabuff glad you had a nice time. I used to feel terribly bad that my first birth experience didn't go to plan. It has coloured my views about this one too. I just want baby out so I can enjoy him or her like I do ds1.

well I am really sorry if I offended anyone.

X

Yogabuff, thankyou for explaining your position. It isn't smug and naive to share a positive story - far from it - but it IS smug and naive to suggest that such a positive experience can be replicated by other women just by them having different maternal attitudes and choices, and that's how I felt your initial post came over a bit. Thanks again for explaining.

ah thank goodness i found a thred like this! im in exactly the same position constant bh and pains but nothing that seems to progress just whant this baby out safe and sound. the on off stuff is really hard to cope with especially with xmas coming up.

welcome uggly when are you due?

everyone else is a bit quiet. i bet you have all gone and had your babies and i'm going to be stuck here all alone

Hey everyone.
Due tomorrow and really want baby out before Saturday. I gotstarted last week then came down with this seasonal flu, and everythig stopped! MW has confirmed that getting ill can stop labour that's just getting started.

baby's head is low so every cough feels like it's pushing baby out. So fed up!

I'm still here and waiting/ wondering mumatron . Lots of but and bump now in a completely different place to Normal - central instead of off to one side. Wondering if that's because he's
U engaging...

Otherwise not much happening.

Fingers crossed for everyone x

I'm back!! It was labour...Didn't manage a vbac, got to 9cm and stayed there and ended up with a c-section after begging for every drug they had - God it doesn't half hurt - gas and air is crap!! Baby William Michael Henry was born at 15:39 on Tuesday 21st December (our 8th wedding anniversary) after the first twinge at around 5pm on the Monday. Weighed 8lb exactly and is utterly gorgeous. Can't wait to hear everybody elses news xx