36+4 with DC2 is something happening??? I feel funny.

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I'm on my own with DD1 all day while her dad is at work.

I feel very 'off' today, the bones between my legs are killing me, my lower back is throbbing and I'm getting on and off 'light' pains in my tummy with no real frequency. I feel sick as hell and have gone off food. I had a thread yesterday about not being able to go to the loo very easily and today I keep feeling like I need to poo urgently but nothing comes out.

My husband keeps telling me to rest but how the hell can you rest with a 2 year old and I'm trying to keep the house clean and tidy as I'm wanting a home birth when the time comes.

I went over by 7 days with DD1 so all along I've presumed it will be the same this time but I just feel 'off' I can't explain it.
I have to just deal with the pain silently as I don't want to scare DD and my husband isn't back until 9ish.

I've been drinking 1 cup of raspberry leaf tea a day since 35 weeks with the intention of upping it to 2 cups when I hit 37, could this be making me feel funny?

I don't really have anyone else to speak to about this and I was so sure of my self, having done it before but I didn't feel this way last time?

Before you had your babies did you feel funny?? My waters broke with DD1 and I had contractions straight after but I just felt normal before hand.

Sorry if I'm making no sense!

If you're worried then call triage. It might be the start of something or you might have something like a UTI making you feel off. Either way it's probably best to get checked out. Can someone come and sit with DD?

Can you call your midwife and have a chat?

I'm not really worried as such, I just feel a bit strange/off and was wondering if it's common.
Baby had moved today as much as expected so I'm sure she's fine, it's just me.

Pretty sure I don't have a UTI, my wee feels fine and I'm going plenty (drinking plenty too) Just so so so much pressure down there and the bones are aching so bad I've got my full on waddle on I don't know if it's the pain making me feel sick.

I felt pretty normal up until my birth last time but I guess I didn't have a child to look after at the same time last time!

I think the midwife would think I was being silly if I rang her telling her I felt a bit funny

You could be in labour. I remember with my second I had terrible pains in my bottom that day, the mid wife came out and did not bother to check me over. Later that night my waters broke and I had terrible pains, I rang the hospital and they insisted they send an ambulance out as it must have sounded as though I was about to give birth. My little boy was born a couple of hours later.

Hi @crimsonlake did you feel sick and have a lot of pressure down there too before your water broke?

My water broke before I had any contractions in my last labour and birth and I was just expecting the same this time... the pains in my back are getting stronger, feeling very sick. In bed now waiting for DH to get home. Toddler finally asleep so I've got some head space.

I don't know if these are funny braxton hicks though I Mean I'm getting a tightening sensation in my tummy but the majority of the pain is in my back. Baby isn't back to back she's on her side facing my right but her head is engaged.
I'm not screaming and crying in agony or anything like DD1.

Feelings of needing to rush to the loo again for a poo but nothing.... maybe I should give them a call. I'll give it an hour or so. I don't want to go in unnecessarily and have to get my mum out to look after DD.

Sorry I do not recall about feeling sick as it was years ago, but I think not. Just remember having pains in my bottom all day and I do not think I associated it with labour and neither did the mid wife obviously.
Each labour is different, I was induced with my first and was in labour nearly 48 hrs.
Knowing what I know now, I was obviously in labour all of that day. You need to ring the hospital, good luck.

Just to add I went to bed that night and woke up just as both my waters went.

It could be start of labour. I don't remember feeling sick, but I did have tummy and back pains and kept feeling like going to the toilet

Good luck OP 😊 I had spontaneous labour so everything hit me at once so no good thoughts

When I went into labour I kept feeling like I needed to poo, and started to feel like a bowling ball was about to fall out my bum

Good luck OP.

Ooo good luck 😉

Sounds potentially like it... are you ready?! (I definitely would t have been at 36+4 with DC2!)

I just can't shake this 'off' feeling.
But it could just be in my head.
The aches and pains are still there but dimming down now. They started like this about 4am this morning. Stopped at returned about 2pm. But I've felt funny all day.

I'm going to wait for DH to get home and I'll run a bath. I'm sweating like mad!

I don't feel poorly or anything, just a Sicky feeling like when you've ate too many sweet things. I guess the pains could be compared to period pains.

I used to scream and cry with Brixton hicks with my first. I think my pain threshold is a lot better now?
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Okay, pains getting stronger in my back again now! DH isn't Home yet. I feel very alone. So so hot.

Do you have family nearby or a neighbour? Good luck x

Op my waters did not break until dd was about to come out and I heard that if your sac is intact it helps to 'spread' the pain of the contractions. It sounds like you're in labour to me.

Good luck OP x

I felt very sick when labour suddenly started off again with DD and then just as I was transitioning. Vomited twice during her labour. Nowt with DS

TMI but I've just ran to the loo and it was diarrhoea.

I feel a little lighter and less sick at the minute and on the birthing ball. Sharp stingy pains in my vagina though. I can feel baby has moved from her side to more of a central position too.

Rang triage and they said to wait until the pains are more regular and intense. We live 3 minutes from the hospital so not too worried about going in yet. (They said I'd not be aloud a home birth before 37 weeks so would have to go in)

DH home so running a bath. Also rang my mum and she's on stand by Just incase!

Oooo the power of the bath test! You will soon know if its the real deal!

It does sound like it could be labour. For a lot of women their waters dont break until just before birth, all pregnancies and births are different so theres nothing saying it will be like your labour with DD.
I do remember when I went into labour with my DS i was boiling, sweating loads and pains in my back. I was really sick but not till just before pushing.

I'd definitely be going to hospital to get checked out in case.

My waters had to be ruptured at 9cm dilated. Never got the whoosh

Are you ok OP?