Anyone else sick to the back teeth of false labour?

[Nocoffeenoworkee]

It's depressing just typing this out but here goes for cathartic purposes if nothing else!

This is my first baby and for the last 13 days I've been experiencing what Dr Internet diagnoses as false labour [grits teeth]. It all started with a small show (brown tinged discharge, sorry if TMI) followed by 5 hours of 10 minute contractions, albeit painless. Into hospital as only 36 weeks then, only to be told I wasn't dilated. Same again 3 days later but with a bit of pain, still no dilation. Since then I've stopped timing contractions as I've decided to wait til I can't speak before calling the midwife, but they've steadily become more painful and last night got to being excruciating and 6 minutes apart. I managed to go to sleep (ergo,not the real thing!) and woke up to simple tightenings rather than painful contractions this morning.

I'm now 38 + 1 and so ready for the baby to arrive, and I wondered if anyone else is in a similar situation for some virtual handholding through this mighty frustrating time!

Me!

Was shoved in hospital overnight last week as I was 35 weeks and started having contractions after a midwife palpated my stomach, they picked up the contractions on the trace but they weren't doing anything so sent me home and told me to prepare myself for this lasting until my due date and beyond. .

36+4 now and having loads of period type pains, back ache and other niggles but am just trying to ignore it and get on with things.

This is my third and I'm not used to this lead up, it's not fun!

Oh yes, Im with you on this one, Im 40+3 and have had a few non-starters in the last 2 weeks. Contractions getting stronger and quicker together etc and then it all just goes away again!
It is so frustrating and impossible not to get your hopes up, felt terrible on my excited husband when I said, 'sorry, false alarm!'
Like you on the last one I didn't bother looking at the clock etc, just decided if it was the real thing it would stick around and get worse, hubby was at work so didn't even bother telling him!
To make it worse, the amount of people that say, they will come when they are ready, er yes I do know that, it just doesn't make it any easier.
Just think of the light at the end of the tunnel and chin up!

Am 41wks today. For more than a week all night every night from 12am until around 5:30am I have a fake labour. Then it goes away.

Had nothing like this for my first pregnancy, is driving me up a feckin' wall.

I don't even bother getting up anymore, will probably end up having baby in my bed because I won't believe it until he actually comes out.

Oh ladies, at least it's inevitable that we will actually give birth one day soon! Am attempting to bring on labour distract myself by starting complex projects that really shouldn't be stopped halfway through, i.e. making curtains. I'm also doing all sorts of witch doctory things to get things moving and I might well stop on the basis that I can't be arsed with the contractions they may well be prompting as I'll be exhausted by the time I finally go into labour!

Whilst I am a total cynic, to get this over and done with I have been drinking gallons of flat leaf parsley tea, ingesting raspberry leaf capsules by the fistful, massaging accupressure points, bouncing on my birthing ball, pestering DH for sex, etc, etc. Think I shall continue the ones that really do condition my uterus and cervix and ditch the flim flammy ones...

The only positive thing to come out of false labour is that the midwives tell me that each strong contraction is almost certainly softening and opening the right bits and that active labour will most likely be shorter as a result.

So, strawberry and morloth we look forward to hearing of nice quick arrivals very soon, and smallships, just hang on in there, I'm with you!

Hi ladies, I had false labour for 3 days with DS1 and it was horrid. It only happened at night and after 2 nights I was exhausted! On day 3 I called my MW and begged her to help, I was 5 days early but she offered me a sweep (I was 1cm) that was at 2pm started contracting at 5pm and my son was born at 12:27 the following morning.

I must say I do think a little bit of 'you know what' 4 days before my son was born helped things along

GOOD LUCK LADIES!