when she was going through prodromal labor!!! I coudn't really understand what she meant by it exactly, because with DS, labor began with a bang!
But this time...not so lucky! DH and I DTD this afternoon, which is what sent me directly into labor with DS. About 20 min afterwards, I was definitely having some STRONG contractions! I had a few "emptying" trips to the toilet, and then started getting some dishes and other chores done because things were looking like laborland was on it's way.
After about an hour and a half of ctx between 3-5 min apart, I noticed that all of the sudden, some were clearly labor ctx, and some were clearly BH ctx. This never happened with DS, so I started to think something was up.
As the day has gone on, though I have stayed active, the ctx have varied WIDELY between rather regular and intense, to plain old BH, to nothing for long periods of time. Right now I am having almost nothing, but every 20 min or so, I will have a big ctx.
So now, I am going to have a glass of wine and head to bed. If this keeps up all night, or worse for days like it did for Helen, I'm going to go seriously crazy!!!
On the bright side, though, when the ctx are strong, I AM SURE they are doing something, so that is just that much less work I have to do whenever labor really kicks in (hopefully after a long, restful night's sleep
)
But this time...not so lucky! DH and I DTD this afternoon, which is what sent me directly into labor with DS. About 20 min afterwards, I was definitely having some STRONG contractions! I had a few "emptying" trips to the toilet, and then started getting some dishes and other chores done because things were looking like laborland was on it's way.
After about an hour and a half of ctx between 3-5 min apart, I noticed that all of the sudden, some were clearly labor ctx, and some were clearly BH ctx. This never happened with DS, so I started to think something was up.
As the day has gone on, though I have stayed active, the ctx have varied WIDELY between rather regular and intense, to plain old BH, to nothing for long periods of time. Right now I am having almost nothing, but every 20 min or so, I will have a big ctx.
So now, I am going to have a glass of wine and head to bed. If this keeps up all night, or worse for days like it did for Helen, I'm going to go seriously crazy!!!
On the bright side, though, when the ctx are strong, I AM SURE they are doing something, so that is just that much less work I have to do whenever labor really kicks in (hopefully after a long, restful night's sleep
)
