I wish...

[becoming]

...the contractions would just stop. All together. It makes the waiting so much worse when, every hour or so, I have a good contraction and think, "Oh, maybe this is it!" It's. Making. Me. Crazy.

At first I was welcoming all the false labor stuff, because it was exciting. Now I seriously don't want to feel *anything* else until I am in hard-core labor. It's just too frustrating and disappointing.

Thanks for letting me whine. I'm sure my DH is sick of hearing it.

[BrownEyed]

I'm totally with you on this. My poor DH was going crazy and then add the fact that I felt like the boy who cried wolf every time I had a contraction.

This false labor is getting your body ready.

[pwit]

I guess its just hard to be content with whatever. I have NO SIGNS of labor and wish I had something. . . my last was 42 and a half weeks and I almost ended up getting induced at the hospital. I don't want to go through that again but with no signs at 39 and a half weeks I'm picturing a repeat.

[SleepyMamaBear]

i am going through the same thing right now.
every contrax i am thinking "is this it? could this really be early labor?" then it ends and i think. "no way, jsut another toning contrax." then another one comes, and i get all excited again...
i havent ever gone into real labor on my own, just prodromal, so who KNOWS if this is real or not???

[MamaJenese]

I am so with you Mama! I am on day 11 of prodromal labor. I am so at the end of both my physical and emotional ropes, which I know is not helping. I feel like if I could just relax things would get going but between my Mom being so ill and the symphisis dysfunction relaxtion is very hard to come by...

[tatermom]

Argh! I'm with you too. I have about 1 pretty strong/painful contraction about every hour, and it's been like this for days (weeks?). Each time I think "maybe this time???" and it's driving me nuts. It's hard to ignore it so I've been keeping as busy as possible but now I'm just feeling exhausted from all the work/nesting I've been doing! I had a week of prodromal labor with DS (including contractions 20-30 min apart continuously for the last 2 days before labor finally started) and I was really hoping to avoid that this time! :

[ahdoula]

When I was in the same boat as you guys last pregnancy, I finally went into labor (a month after it started) when I went to bed convinced it was another round of false labor. Keep telling yourself it's nothing, one of these days you'll be pleasently suprised!

Hang in there!

BTW the grass is always greener: here I am with NO labor signs and on the clock for induction-what I WOULDN'T give to be as primed up as you all are!

[luckydog]

I've been in the same boat my last two pregnancies. And actually mild prodromal stuff started for me on Saturday. It took me this 4th pregnancy to figure it out, but I'm COMPLETELY ignoring it. Knowing that, for me, this crap goes on and on for weeks, I'm in a much better space mentally to do as Macrina suggests and tell myself it's nothing. If it turns out to be different this time (fat chance), at least I'll be pleasantly surprised. In the meantime, ladies - that "any minute now" feeling of anticipation/apprehension for days/weeks on end is SO emotionally and physically exhausting.

One little tip that's been working for me this week. I started a fun work project and gave myself a deadline I'm not likely to meet before the baby comes. (And it's not in any way a critical project.) It's a little mind game I'm playing with myself - that if I tie up ALL the loose ends and feel completely ready, Jake will take longer to come. So I'm trying to keep the ends loose (figuratively and literally ).

If I weren't working, I'd probably try to find a similar project for end of pregnancy - a cross-stitch, knitting or scrapbooking project maybe?

[Emma's_Mommy]

i totally feel your pain!!!