Advice needed! Contractions for two days!

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Hi.. I am 38 weeks and first baby. Had irregular contractions on Friday night. Some were 4 mins apart, other were 10 mins apart. Then it went away to return Saturday night and lasted for 12 hours till this morning. It got regulary at one point but then disappeared. Now it comes on about every 30/45 mins. Mid wife has asked to stay in till its regular and about 3/4 mins apart. Was
Anyone had this experience? any adivce? Please help...

Yup. I had these.. Started on wednesday (day before EDD) at 2am and went on and on and on, getting worse and then better and then so much worse for 3 days.. DS was born on the saturday morning. Main problem was exhaustion from not sleeping the nights. went into hospital on friday morning when contractions were every 5 mins and I was only 2 cms dilated. was given painkillers to sleep an hour or 2 then no change, so strech and sweep and sent home. by friday night contractions were a killer so I went in again and STILL 2 cms. Gave me pethidine and codeine to sleep a bit at which point waters broke and all hell broke loose. At 2 am I had an epi so I could sleep a few hours!! Pushed him out by 9am, but man was I tired. 10 months on and still tired. My advice would be try and sleep in between them, forget this being active. If you get too tired try hospital for some sleep, and when it kicks off if you are truly exhausted have an epidural for some sleep because that made all the difference when it came to pushing him out. Good luck.

That's pretty normal.

Try to do things that stop you focussing in on the contractions at the moment. Watch a comedy, sort your photo albums etc.

Know that your body is preparing for the descent of the baby and that all of this is doing something.

Rest where you can and keep us posted. We love a good labour thread here.

Thanks for the advice.... good to know I am not alone