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Stabbing low back pain, labor?

post #1 of 4
7/22/10 at 11:57am
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So for the last hour or so I've had a stabbing pain in my low back. I'm not noticing uterine tightening when it happens. Could this still be the start of labor? I'm 39w1d.
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post #2 of 4
7/22/10 at 1:18pm
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Originally Posted by mrsdocmartin View Post
So for the last hour or so I've had a stabbing pain in my low back. I'm not noticing uterine tightening when it happens. Could this still be the start of labor? I'm 39w1d.
that was the start of it for me. I never felt uterine tightening across the front at all with #1. With #2 I noticed some, but not a lot.

Labor, both times, was a backache that I finally realized was coming adn going in waves that were predictable. And with #1 that is all I ever got -- the midwife had to point out that she could feel my belly tightening under her hand, but I just did not feel it.

#1 was posterior at first, but #2 wasn't -- I think that may just be how I was wired.

GOOD LUCK!
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post #3 of 4
7/22/10 at 3:44pm
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that was the start of it for me. I never felt uterine tightening across the front at all with #1. With #2 I noticed some, but not a lot.

Labor, both times, was a backache that I finally realized was coming adn going in waves that were predictable. And with #1 that is all I ever got -- the midwife had to point out that she could feel my belly tightening under her hand, but I just did not feel it.

#1 was posterior at first, but #2 wasn't -- I think that may just be how I was wired.

GOOD LUCK!
Oh I hope that is what happens to me!!
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post #4 of 4
7/22/10 at 9:26pm
I don't want to get your hopes up, but it might just be baby sitting posterior, with the forehead in your sacrum. It hurts. moving around, hula hooping(without the hoop or belly dancing, can help him get his head in a better position, and spending some time on hands and knees might swing his back more to the front, if it is posterior positioning causing the stabbing pain. Might be a little early for labor yet, that's why I didn't want to get your hopes up yet. But it could go into labor. Only time will tell. When the 'rushes" are 60-90 seconds long, occurring about 2-3 min apart, and you are feeling a lot of pressure down below, you will be well into active labor... hope that helps a little. Sometimes a mom will get a low backache when the baby drops down into the pelvis in preparation for labor, too...
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