It's 3:22 and...

[zannster]

I'm in labor. Or maybe not. I don't know.

When I went to bed at 10:00, I felt a little crampy. I had a small amount of blood-tinged mucus. I had a few contractions and my CTS was atrocious, so I got up at 11:45 or so. After sitting on the ball for a while, the cramping stopped, so I went back to bed. I got an hour or so of lousy sleep, as the ctx started up again. They're not really well-defined though. I haven't called my midwife (or doula) because I don't have any good info for them. I haven't been able to time anything. But I've been sitting here (on the ball, which I've decided is a heavenly thing) for probably an hour, and I'm still mighty uncomfortable. I know I should be sleeping, but that doesn't seem likely.

Now what?

[basje]

I wasn't sure when I went into labor if it was BH or the real thing. My doula said to take a bath and have a beer and see if it goes away. It didn't. I waited to ask her to come over until they started to get more intense where I wasn't able to walk around during them. I ended up having a quick labor, and was holding my daughter six hours later.

So if you can rest, rest. If you can't and want to speed things up walk around. If you want some support from your doula, call her to come over!

You were made for this! You can do it!

[zannster]

Alright, contractions have mostly fizzled, so I'm going to try for another nap. Thanks a lot!

[zannster]

Well that was a waste of time. Not long after I went to bed, things started up again.

At least now DH is up and filling the birth tub.

[organicmom3]

Hope you have better luck then me....my contractions were 6 minutes aprart last night (an occasional 4) for a couple hours and then fizzled to 10, then 20 and then only 1 an hour or so for the rest of the night.......

Good Luck!!!!!

[Juvysen]

Ooooh! Hope this is it for you!!

[zannster]

Thanks. It quit again. My midwife thinks it's prodomal labor, since it was never regular. Blah. I did manage to nap a while (until the cat jumped on me!) and I'm supposed to keep resting as long as I'm able.

[Juvysen]

hope you at least got to relax in the birth tub a bit...

[zannster]

Heh, no, I didn't. I asked DH to fill it when he got up at 5:00, which he did. Then the contractions weren't doing much, so I went to sleep.

[Juvysen]

I've been considering filling mine up again just to hang out in, hot-tub style...

[Plummeting]

Oh, that's frustrating! I had several nights of prodromal labor and it was soooo maddening. I hope you get your baby soon!