Jun 29 2008
How Many More Days?
With every pregnancy I’ve had, this of which is number three, I have enjoyed almost the entire experience. Of course the early days when you feel nauseous and dizzy were not fun but they were over soon enough, but the later days when the big day is potentially “any day now” are far worse to me.
I have NEVER yes you read never gone into active labor or full labor on my own. I have been induced twice. Once prior to ever experiencing a contraction, which resulted in being in the hospital for over 24 hours before holding my first born.
With Lily, I began having these “braxton hicks contractions” as they called them on a Saturday, and they continued all day Sunday, until finally hubby took me to the hospital. They discovered I was dehydrated and put me in a room in the Labor & delivery area and put me on monitors and ran an IV for fluids. I stayed overnight before being released. On Tuesday I was having the same issues so I returned to the hospital but again was sent home. Thursday I finally had a doctor’s appt. was checked and was 3 cm dialated so they set me up to be induced the next morning at 6 am. I had Lily girl at 1:14 pm that afternoon.
This time around, I have had braxton hicks (I am assuming) for several days now. They will stay around for a few hours at irregular intervals and then disappear. However, this morning I got up at 4 am to come to the recliner from the bed for back pain relief, finally ending up on the couch asleep until 7 but even after getting up and moving around my back pain has not left. I have had a few irregular braxton hicks (I’m assuming) so I’m hoping that the signs are increasing. However, I also have some nausea, which is also new.
Whatever the case, Brady is due 2 weeks from today. I am hoping that I really don’t have to experience this for 14 MORE days, but only God knows!
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I had braxton hicks for at least a couple weeks before my second was born. (And he was born a week late!) Here’s a post from the day before Benjamin was born. They were every 8-12 minutes and were becoming intense and painful. So much so that I had to sit down.
I still didn’t go into the hospital until the next day at 4:30pm.
When they checked me, I was at 9cm. And THAT is the way to labor. At home, distracted, getting things done. Wouldn’t change a thing, except to have gone to a birthing center with a birthing tub rather than a hospital that forced me onto a bed. 
I’ll be praying God gives you wisdom and patience in these trying times!
Oh, and because I know you’re obsessed with all things “Labor” (I know I was when I was weeks away from my due date!), here’s another post. It’s the timeline of my labor with Benjamin. May you have such a fast and uncomplicated labor!
That link is acting wierd on my last comment. Hopefully it’s because it’s simply awaiting moderation. If that’s the case, feel free to just delete this comment! But here’s the link again.
Are your back pains coming and going? I just ask because I had back labor with my oldest. At any rate, it sounds like it won’t be much longer!