Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Childbirth

Share experiences and get support around labour, birth and recovery.

Original poster

Is this labour??

41 replies

sterlingpink295 · 21/06/2015 11:00

41+1 weeks. Started to have show yesterday and still getting occasional blood mucous loss. Since tea time last night been getting pain roughly every 10 min and it's got stronger but not closer together. Backache, extreme pain in lower tummy and can feel tightenings at top. The pain is making me call out in pain. Feel sick and looser bowel movement. Is this labour??

OP posts:
badRoly · 21/06/2015 11:01

Could be Grin

Original poster
sterlingpink295 · 21/06/2015 11:06

And they are lasting about 70 seconds. Midwife said the other day that the head was well engaged. Feel pressure as if need a poo but don't

OP posts:
mamababa · 21/06/2015 11:08

I'd say so. Grin

badRoly · 21/06/2015 11:11

If the urge to poo becomes very strong, phone the midwife and let them know Wink

ltk · 21/06/2015 11:13

Exciting! Are you going to hospital or having baby at home?

swashbucklecheer · 21/06/2015 11:16

I had a labour where the Contractions didn't come close together - 8 mins or so apart. I felt i needed a poo and it turned out i was fully dilated. Caught the midwives by suprise!

Original poster
sterlingpink295 · 21/06/2015 11:39

Last one lasted nearly 2 min but 10 min apart from last one

OP posts:
Original poster
sterlingpink295 · 21/06/2015 11:40

Already want gas and air lol, that's how painful they are

OP posts:
mamababa · 21/06/2015 11:51

Phone the labour ward. As the others have said a strong need to poo could mean it's more imminent than you think!!

Hobby2014 · 21/06/2015 12:13

Ooh sounds like it. If call and let them know what's happening. Good luck.

Original poster
sterlingpink295 · 21/06/2015 12:17

The poo feeling is coming and going

OP posts:
Original poster
sterlingpink295 · 21/06/2015 12:29

They are now less frequent by a few mins but still painful

OP posts:
Theselittlelightsaremine · 21/06/2015 12:29

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Original poster
sterlingpink295 · 21/06/2015 12:31

About 14mins apart lasting over a minute. Still painful in lower tummy and back and upper tummy still going hard when have them

OP posts:
Theselittlelightsaremine · 21/06/2015 12:32

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

BlueBananas · 21/06/2015 12:33

Ooo a live birth thread Grin
Call the labour ward!

Original poster
sterlingpink295 · 21/06/2015 12:33

It's highly possible that I haven't hit the start button at the same time each time. Gosh they hurt

OP posts:
Original poster
sterlingpink295 · 21/06/2015 12:35

Can't walk far as the lower pain and back pain hurts when move and don't have a birthing ball

OP posts:
stubbornstains · 21/06/2015 12:36

I had a baby 2 weeks ago, and the MWs seemed to think that the difference between Braxton Hicks and "real" labour pains was the level of pain......Good luck! x

BlueBananas · 21/06/2015 12:36

Phone the hospital!
I went in when my contractions were still 9/10 mins apart and was fully dilated, the urge to poo probably means you are too!

afreshstartplease · 21/06/2015 12:36

Have you phoned the hospital op?

Original poster
sterlingpink295 · 21/06/2015 12:39

It's just how they've got longer in between but intensity and length are just the same. They are making me vocal as they hurt that much
the poo thing is coming and going

OP posts:
Eminado · 21/06/2015 12:44

Wow good luck op how exciting????!

swashbucklecheer · 21/06/2015 13:51

Op that happened to me! It was called a spurious labour but the poo feeling was me needing to push. Baby arrived a few min later. Don't hang around phone the hospital!

MissBananaMama · 21/06/2015 13:53

Marking my place! How exciting! Good luck OP