what "signs" did you *not* have before labor? - Page 2

[Gilby]

I didn't have any of the above signs until well into my labor... but I had prodromal labor with an OP baby. I'd already been in labor more than 24 hours when I lost my mucous plug and started having some bloody show. I remember thinking 'Oh yeah, I forgot that was a sign of labor, next time I'll wait until that happens before I even call this labor!'

[AZgirl2207]

I made five (!) casseroles for the freezer and my water broke/contrax started less than 24 hours later. I"m hoping for a little bit more nesting time with this baby.

[Shelsi]

Originally Posted by cicely_m

I'm trying to figure out if I need to wait to for all these things before I know that these contractions are actually doing something.
People who have given birth, did all of these things happen to you? (I know they can happen either hours or weeks before labor...)

Did you have:

1) diarrhea
2) nausea/vomiting
3) bloody show
4) backache
5) change in mood/frantic nesting

anything else?
(I know that not everyone's water breaks first, so I didn't include that one)

Um, none of the above actually. Well when I was well into definite labor my body did clean itself out but it wasn't diarhea. I never had any nausea, no bloody show....I guess I did have a backache but that's when I was in full swing labor because I had back labor and I'm just not a nester at all lol. :

[puddle]

I didn't have any of those. The only sign I got was regular contractions.

[RileysmamaNM]

Nothing untill the very last hour of 8 hours of labor. Then I had 1, 2, and 4 Water didnt break untill the very end also.

[Storm Bride]

1) diarrhea
2) nausea/vomiting
3) bloody show
4) backache
5) change in mood/frantic nesting

I've laboured with three of my four.

With my first, I had a bad backache and vomiting before labour.

With my third, I had contractions before anything else, and I never did have nausea or vomiting (I didn't labour long with him before surgery, though).

With my last, I had nothing before contractions started.

I couldn't begin to pin down whether I had a change of mood with my third or fourth. In both cases, I was already in a highly charged emotional space (fighting for VBA2C with ds2 and pretty seriously post-dates with a VBA3C baby with Aaron), so I don't know if I would have noticed a change. I've never really had the nesting thing happen.

[leafwood]

I had loose stools and a frantic surge in energy/nesting hours before labor started with dd. Within 2 hours of the start of contractions I had show ans passed my plug.

This time with ds I had none of these signs. I started having contractions around 10pm that were every 10 min or so and they persisted and intensified throughout the night. At 3am I was convinced it was the real thing....I kept waiting for the tummy stuff and show but it never came.

[samstress]

i had none of these signs before hand and only vomited once i was in active labor. was probably having contractions for several hours, but they were so mild that i ignored them. didn't realize it was "time to go" until my water broke.