How many rounds of "false labor" did you have?!

[breezykc2]

Okay, getting mighty sick of this! :evil: Over the past week...I have had three rounds of braxton hicks that increase steadily in intensity and duration and time...and then stop about 10 or 12 HOURS later cold turkey! Ergh! They get to be about 4 minutes apart the last couple hours and come standing/walking/or sitting.....then just "POOF", they're gone! SOOOO frustrated! My OB seems to think things are fine and that this is normal! (I've been dilated to a little over 3cm and 80% effaced and -2 station for a little over two weeks now and lost my mucus plug this past weekend...this is baby number 2 with a two year gap between deliveries)
Anyone else have such long false labor runs? How many? Ergh! :roll:

[Cheeseburger]

i went to the ER twice thinking i was in labor - the contraction machine showed that I was too, and the doc thought I was. It wasn't "false labor" so much as "super early labor" which I was in for a week before I went into "regular early labor" lol... i had contractions on and off for a WEEK... steady, timed and everything... the doctor thought the baby would be here within 24 hours. seven days later she finally arrives LOL

[buttercup_97140]

I haven't had false labor, but my good friend had many "attempted" starts to her labor....it was her 3rd baby. She actually called me over about three or four times for the "this is it for sure this time" call, but they always stopped. Finally one day her water broke and poof, baby was born an 1 1/2 later.... :wink:

I wouldn't worry so much about it being abnormal, but I understand your wanting your baby in your arms to love.....I encourage you to really bring this before the Lord.....just keep remembering he knows this baby's birthday already, and his timing is perfect!! :D

Hoping for baby soon!!

Amber

[breezykc2]

I am pretty good since I know with my stats and the way things are going I won't need to be induced now to meet insurance needs for the 12/31 deadline...everyone is pretty sure he'll be here by then! It's just that when I get the contractions...I start shaking all over! So weird and I don't remember doing that except 7 to 10 cm last time and so I'm paranoid that I'm dilating more now than I was and that if my water does break at home...I won't be able to get anywhere! My hubby is far enough away at work and the hospital is about 25 minutes away and I have a 2.5 year old to pack up and haul with me too....last time my water broke and I went from 7-10 and delivered in under 15 minutes! AHHHH!
This false labor stuff is I think more un-nerving than anything! Yikes! :shock:

[~Tara~]

you're not going to want to hear mine...
but I'll saying it, to be honest and open...



With #3, my entire last month was full of false labot like that. I had a 'rough' pregnancy from the start so by this time I was *fed up* I went through a time of depression and rather hated God for it all. I also suffered with anxiety during those false starts.
Eventually, I got my head on straight, repented and tryly gave it over to God. That next morning I went into labor..3 hr start to finish :) After a night of nothing, just a good solid rest.


So, my thought/suggestion...is there anything you need to 'get out'? Any 'beef' you have with dh? Any issues that need resolved? Anything that could keep you from lettinggo, opening up to your body laboring?
I know, it sounds kinda 'new age-y' but really, it holds truth. I guess it's new age if you don't hold your faith in God. If your faith is in God, then it's simply being in the right spiritual condition, being 'right' with God. HTH

Just keep hanging in there, try not to get frustrated....let it go. Pray hard and harder :)

[Crissyanna]

One trip in two weeks early for monitoring. I felt them, the machine didn't pick them up. That was after the midwife had stretched my membranes at my appt. that morning. Talk about being upset about not having a baby then (that was the 15th). On the 10th, I had some, I made Hubby feel my tummy and he agreed it was getting tight (we were at church), I made it through church, but they never changed. After lunch, he dropped me off at home and I took a nap and they went away. I too was told, she'll be here by this time next week, you are so far dilated, she is so low, you will have this baby naturally. Was told that for four weeks. Ended up induced anyway. Never want to be induced ever again. That was more horrible than the false labor. The false labor didn't really hurt. I felt those contractions, not the induced ones, I just felt the baby being pushed down and my birth canal fighting it. Not pleasant.

Hope your little one decides to make an appearance soon and that you won't be in the hospital over Christmas.

[BlessedMommy]

Too much to count! LOL. :) Of course a lot of them I brought on myself by trying to naturally induce labor. Didn't work. My daughter was bound and determined to not come out until she was good and ready, which was 2 days shy of 42 weeks. :shock:

[MomFromCanada]

I also had Braxton Hicks off and on. I had 2 nights of false labour before I was in active labour the 3rd night and then I had my dd the next morning via c-section.

[EmJo]

Okay, this is after the fact, but I just got around to browsing C-moms again and had to reply...

I had contractions on and off for 4 days--and through each night, so lost a lot of sleep--b4 I went into "real" labor the 5th day.

I'm so glad to hear that what I went through isn't abnormal!