The post dates waiting game is tough!
I’m 40+4, 3rd pregnancy and my other two were born after spontaneous delivery at 41+1 and 41+3 so, in the rational part of my brain, I know that it’s likely to be 41+ again. However, this time my body is confusing me and waiting is always hard anyway.
2 nights ago, I was awake most of the night with low back cramps, period like cramps and then very mildly painful contractions (more than Braxton Hicks as I felt it in my back and front but not the same as true contractions in terms of pain). Which were every 5-10 minutes for 2 hours lasting 45-60 seconds. I kept thinking it was going to increase in intensity like my previous labours and it just didn’t. Then I got up and ate something and it stopped. Yesterday, I had intermittent cramps/period pains and braxton hicks through the day then nothing from the evening onwards and today I feel totally normal again after a good nights sleep. 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
There’s no sign of the mucus plug or anything else so I’m guessing maybe it was all just me being tired or something. Or it just didn’t get going. Who knows but it’s very frustrating and I would like to have this baby now please!
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I had this last week, started contractions around 18:00 on the Monday and they stopped Tuesday morning around 08:00 after eating breakfast. Then had contractions again Tuesday during the day until about 19:30 when they stopped whilst eating dinner. I was told this was baby getting more into position ready for labour but not labour. At my stretch and sweeps I was then 1cm dilated and my midwife could feel my waters bulging (this was on the Wednesday then had a second on the Friday and told I was still 1cm and my cervix was still a bit thick and long). So far no further progress other than increased discharge/continuously losing my plug which I had thought I had already lost but apparently it can regenerate (need to look more into this today as just found out). No other progress for me yet and I'm now 40+2. I have my next midwife appointment tomorrow so will see then if I have had any further progression at all but not really had any contractions, just bearing down and pelvic pain
Oh, I also thought my waters may have broken on Thursday but nope, wasn't my waters 😅 I agree very frustrating as you gear yourself up thinking you are getting ready for go time and then nothing happens 😔 this is my first and part of me knows he will come when he is ready, the other part of me just wants to meet my baby now! X
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