Contractions?
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Worth recording the contractions in an app. I was in early labour for 24 hours, sent home from hospital 2 times. Only thing that helped was monitoring, contractions interval started with 30-40 mins down to 3 min (fully dilated by then) in the last hour. Luckily the hospital was only 15 mins drive away at past midnight.
Is it like cramps ?
My due date is the 26th too and I’m still not 100% sure about the contractions either, but what I’ve been finding is that the real contractions feel much more like period cramps for me and they’re down low and wrap around to my back. But take that with a grain of salt because I don’t know, I still haven’t actually gone into labor either 😅 I’ve been trying all of those things to start labor too but my feet are so swollen that walking is terrible! I did the miles circuit though. Hoping all goes well for you!
I had that on Sunday but it’s pretty much sporadic at this point. I’m doing all the things to get him out. My due date is the 28th so we will see. I lost my mucus plug like 2 days ago. It could even be “false labor” too which is basically just practice labor, my midwife said that was pretty common too. It will start and then stop.
Labor and braxton hicks are different for everyone. But in my experience, braxton hicks felt like a tight hug that could be uncomfortable at times and could either be regular or irregular and last forever. I was in early labor for 2 days and thought I just had a backache, and conveniently, I had a prenatal appointment the day of and my Dr. told me I was having regular contractions 3 to 5 minutes apart. 5 hours later, I was in active labor and dilated to 7cm, throwing up in my husband's hands while the midwife scurried for vomit bags🤣🤣💯 They say you'll know, but sometimes you just don't until something like that happens. Lmfao.