i dont remember what labour feels like!

[MamaFern]

so im sitting..walking..lying around the house and baby is very active and its hurting!..im not sure if this is the beginning of labour. im having regular kinda pains.. the nerve kinda stabbing pains up there..except they are happening lots more than usual.. is babies head pushing hard and making this happen? my whole belly is tightening too but i cant tell if its baby just moving a lot and pushing hard...i dunno.. i keep thinking my water is going to break.. but that didnt happen at all last time around ( he came out with the water)..i feel like i should walk around with a towl between my legs or something and i feel really silly..i keep remembering hearing that amniotic fluid bleaches stuff and i dont want anything to get ruined ( the stupid stuff you worry about when baby is coming soon) and then i dunno if maybe im just freaking out because i know baby is cooming soon..weather it be in a day or a week.. you all are having clear signs of labour and i cant even remember what i was feeling last time..i guess ill know in a few hours if it gets worse or goes away..

[flapjack]

. You will, don't worry, you will. Besides, you did this labour thing more recently than I have: it'll all come flooding back to you. At a guess, I'd say that if baby is very active then this is the storm before the calm before the storm If you know what I mean: she's looking for the starters blocks? Get her lined up in a nice position with the activity, then when your uterus joins in the party then get her out

[3for3hb]

I've been getting the stabbing pains too... they feel like a knife stabbing me from the inside out down towards my cervix. It's the baby moving (or at least trying to) but it still hurts like hell. I certainly remember what labor feels like, especially with all these prelabor pains....
My only fear is that I've had so much prodromal labor that when the baby comes it will come very quickly. I really love my midwives and want them to be here for the birth. It's not that a precipitous birth scares me... I know I can do it, it's just that I'll feel so much more supported emotionally if they're here. And for this birth I feel I need all the emotional support I can get!

[crsta33]

I keep wondering too if his movement is causing the contractions or vice versa and why it hurts so much if it's not labor.

It's all very confusing. It was so easy last time, I wasn't anticipating labor at every moment and then one morning my water broke and I knew that was the day.

I keep wishing my water would break so I would *know*. I have all these plans I keep hoping I get to cancel (doc appointment for dd, a fox hunt next Saturday, Harry Potter movie, etc.). I am hopeful of getting this little guy to come so I can go home for Thanksgiving...Christmas may be a more realistic goal.

Christa

[Godiva]

sorry this is waaayy off topic, but crsta33- you're going on a fox hunt? watching or actually participating? Oh I'd be soo jealous if you're actually participating in it, I haven't been able to get into the saddle since 7 months! I'm sure my horse is thinking that I've forgotten about him (which is impossible, he's my baby!) ok, sorry back to topic!

[PicnicBear]

Originally Posted by willemsmamma

I've been getting the stabbing pains too... they feel like a knife stabbing me from the inside out down towards my cervix. It's the baby moving (or at least trying to) but it still hurts like hell. I certainly remember what labor feels like, especially with all these prelabor pains....

OK, I have those, too, a lot when the baby moves. *Are they* prelabor pains? I thought it was just that the baby was moving but now that s/he is so large I was feeling everything more forcefully. Are you saying they have to do with labor in some way. They can be quite uncomfortable. I know we've talked about these before -- but I need and ANSWER!!


FOX HUNTING -- Holy *cow* that's an "extreme sport!"

[BensMom]

I have been feeling stuff all weekend. But I dont know if its mental, like because I made it past Friday, I can now "allow" myself to think that labor is imminent?

I have been feeling some pressure around my lower pelvis, some of those twinges, some lower back aches. But then I wonder, is my labor going to be different because its not a head boring down on me but rather a butt? Who knows.

But I walked all over Costco and Walmart this morning, so surely that will get things going, no?

[MamaFern]

okay well im not the only one..

no baby. nothing more. i guess sleep made whatever was happening go away. its okay becuase i still feel like ive been hit by a truck

[crsta33]

Originally Posted by bailey228

sorry this is waaayy off topic, but crsta33- you're going on a fox hunt? watching or actually participating? Oh I'd be soo jealous if you're actually participating in it, I haven't been able to get into the saddle since 7 months! I'm sure my horse is thinking that I've forgotten about him (which is impossible, he's my baby!) ok, sorry back to topic!

We are just going. My dh is a minister and he is doing the "blessing of the hounds."

I haven't ridden in years and I was just learning hunter/jumper when I quit taking lessons. I actually was better at dressage, but I've always wanted to go on a fox hunt. I'll be a little bit disappointed if I don't get to go watch, of course having a baby in arms would quell that disappointment quite well I think.

Christa

[Godiva]

yeah I am much more of a dressage rider than a jumper (although give me a horse any horse and I will ride, I dont care what saddle it's got on ) my boy gets a liitttlle too eager jumping, he's nice and relaxed going to a fence but over the fence, he won't jump the itty bitty cross rail I put up, nooo he'll jump the whole freakin standard! (and clear it by a good 2 feet!) first time he did it, it caught me totally off guard (when you look at a 18" cross rail you aren't exactly expecting a 5' jump!) and I landed on his neck which freaked him out so he bolted on me... Somehow I stayed on and reassured him that mom won't be taking to riding on his neck any time soon. I don't know how he ends up soo off track, right until he takes off he's trotting calmly in a perfect line to the middle and then at the last second ends up 2' to the side and over the standard. So yeah, no fox hunts for him anytime soon! Actually no riding for either of us, I'm too fat and he went through a fence and is completly lame now (good timing though seeing as I can't ride anyways). Sorry guys, I don't mean to babble about horse stuff when the thread is about labor!