Long latent labour phase (3 days already)?

Hi there, I started experiencing contractions on Sunday (when I was 39+4) which were happening every 4-5 minutes but were never super intense and never exceeded 45 sec each. They then appeared to ease off during the day to around one every 15 min (but the cramping never really stopped completely) and picked up at night; it’s been on repeat up until today (my due date). I have also been losing my mucus plug gradually all this time, but the waters are intact. This is really exhausting as I only managed to get a couple of hours of interrupted sleep in the last three days. Has anyone experienced this? Is this the prodromal labour or a very slow latent phase of real labour?

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Hi, this is exactly what I experienced, my first contraction was early Tuesday morning, my LO came Friday morning. It was really hard, my only advice is to try and carry on as normal I know that'd really hard. But make sure you're eating well and drinking plenty, take warm baths and short walks. Look after yourself and try to enjoy the feeling of knowing your one step closer 🥰🥰

thanks! So after having these almosto non-stop mild cramping your contractions finally turned into active labour on Thursday night?

I’m currently on my 3rd day of this as well! It’s absolutely exhausting. Thought yesterday it was progressing as the pain was getting a lot worse and a lot more frequent but stopped at around 2:30am this morning 🥲 so frustrating xxx

Exactly that, they got very painful on Thursday morning and Thursday was spent in agony. My waters went at 5am Friday morning at 5am he was born at 9.57 xx

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