I was up with contractions all night last night... and no baby!

[momsgotmilk4two]

I'm getting so sick of this happening. This is new to me since with my first two kids I went into labor and that was it. This time I have gone into "labor" about 5 times. Fortunatly I have learned not to alert everyone (the first time it happened we had my mil come over to watch the kids in the middle of the night only to have them stop by the time she got here and she lives over an hour away). Again last night I was having contrax from about 4:30 in the afternoon until probably sometime after 1am and then they just went away We even had sex hoping to get them going. I guess the baby is just not ready but what is with all of the false alarms? They are not doing anything to my body either. I had the midwife check me just because I was curious after the first episode and the second and I was at a 1 both times and only 50% effaced. So yesterday I did not bother having her check me, she said her checking was not going to do any good anyway, that it could be any time regardless of what she finds. Now I'm tired and cranky and have two kids to take care of I wonder how many more times this is going to happen before real labor kicks in.

[jecaly]

aw--that sounds awful!

my midwife told me that the more times you've given birth, the more prodromal labor you'll have. fun, huh? this is only number two for me, and i'm still having mostly what i would call braxton-hicks (which i never had with the first one), but sometimes they hurt. i'm trying not to get excited until there's something timeable, but man, it's starting to feel imminent!

i'll bet you go really soon, from the sound of it--i'll be thinking about you!

*j

eta: we have the same due date!

[Megamama]

Makes sense re: the BH...I'm getting tons and I still have almost 2 weeks to go..sometimes they go on for hours, almost regular. I had said somewhere else that for Elijah I was at the hospital like 5 times before my water finally broke and I got to stay...even then my labor wouldn't kick in because I was so freaked out by everything..lesson learned, try really hard to relax..if you are experiencing lots of ctx and don't know if they are real, go take a warm bath by yourself and vegetate..then lay down and try to sleep..if they continue to get stronger, longer and more frequent, then it's more likely to be time..if they don't change, or start to go away, then it's not time..this seems to work for me so far

HUGS

[kiwimutti]

im with you all too. i even made a yummy apple (birthday)cake on wednesday, i was feeling fairly laborish~ then nothing yesterday and i feel silly sinse im more than a week away from my "due date". so when i was having pretty strong cramps...some quite painful i was imbracing them and quite liking it, but...that is going to get kind of tireing if its going to be like this for the next 3 weeks...i dont mind a bit of productive pain...but suffering just for fun?...could make a woman grumpy.

[momsgotmilk4two]

[QUOTE=kiwimuttii dont mind a bit of productive pain...but suffering just for fun?...could make a woman grumpy.[/QUOTE]


Exactly! I would love it if I were in labor and I wouldn't mind the pain a bit, I'd even start my hypnosis stuff and enjoy it, but all this stuff for nothing is getting trying :

[kiwimutti]

im visulizing that its all contributing...softening everything up so that active labor is super cruzy.. ...also i was thinking that perhaps this whole nesting thing is a missunderstanding...its not that we get super fussy and anal about cleaning...its that we've done everything and still waiting so sitting there you think "hmmm, i may as well go ahead and clean up the fly poop off the windows...and vaccume that crack in the floor collecting grot that ive been eyeing for ages...while the rest of the place is this tidy, when else will i get the chance". :LOL