Labor stopping during the day?

[mom2p.m.]

Has this happened to anyone else? I'm sure that I started in labor last night. It started around 1:00 with contrax about 10 -12 min apart. I got up and walked around and they didn't go away. By 5:00 they were 5 min apart. I also had diarrhea and bloody show. I finally fall asleep about 5:00 or so and when I wake up at 6:30 no contrax. I get up and have a few more contrax for about an hour, nothing regular, then lay back down and sleep for another hour and since I've been up maybe a contrax here and there, but nothing regular.

I called my mw and she said that often times labor will stop when the sun comes up and pick back up again at night. But this is my 3rd and this is the first time something like this happened. My other two labors were very different. Once they started in was on!

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this?

[hillaryjudd]

happens to me almost every night and has been for over 2 weeks now

[She2dancer]

Mine is the reverse...very regular during the day...goes away all night long...been like that for a week now...

[YouKnowMe]

Happened to me last night as well, except I didn't have ANY other signs like you did.

I just spoke with my MW as well and she said it could have been a couple things (or nothing): it could be that your body knows it needed rest so it basically turned off the labor so you could get some rest, or it could have been that the baby's position was not optimal.

A couple of suggestions she gave to me were to take a relaxing bath - if it happens again at night when I could really be relaxing, and try some positioning things: hands and knees, squatting.

I've been really struggling with this for a while and I am so exhausted!