Labor question

[Birdie]

This is my first pregnancy so I have no idea what's going on. I'm 37w2d for app users. I've been cramping on and off all day. I was a bit too yesterday. Nothing regular and my stomach was pretty upset for most of the day.

Is it normal to just be crampy when I'm this far along or could things be getting ready to turn into more?

I know it's probably wishful thinking that it's more than just BH. I'm just ready for this to be over!

[yoteach]

Could be nothing/normal nearing-the-end pregnancy pains.

But...cramping was my only sign of labor for both children. I guess I was also loosing my MP, but I wasn't fully sure that was what it was, either.

Basically, with my first, I was in denial that I was really having a baby hat day until my husband told me to look down whole pushing and I saw her head. Total denial.

[curbsideprophet]

Period cramps that I could not sleep through was the first sign I was in labor. They woke me up at 5 am. The details are fuzzy, but I think we started tracking them around 10/11 am. We went to the hospital a couple hours later and DD was born just before 5 pm.

[countthestars]

I cramped like that for a few weeks before I gave birth, but everyone is different and you could have a similar or different experience! Sorry there isn't a clear answer. As impatient as I was the last few weeks, knowing that the longer the baby cooks the better made me feel a tiny bit better. Hope things move quickly for you from here!

[Birdie]

I know I'm not in labor yet. Just wasn't sure if this was all fairly normal or if I'm just a lucky special snowflake. My BH have always been a bit painful, so I can't say "oh this is it!" When they are suddenly uncomfortable.

[rupertpenny]

Download a contraction tracking app just in case!

It will probably just make you more crazy, but that what I did haha.

[hetty]

Thanks for asking this - I've been having the same sort of thing yesterday/today!

[littlemisschatty]

I had cramps, increasingly uncomfortable, at 38 w and delivered 12 hours later. You will know for sure when they get really intense and you can see a pattern (time them)

Maybe this is it!

[meltoine]

If you aren't sure:

Take a nap
Take a walk
Eat a snack
Drink some eater
Take a bath

Some all of these may alleviate the cramps. If they don't, it's probably early labor.

[sookie]

I was that way starting around week 35 and had to be induced. Hopefully it means better things for you than it did for me!

[Birdie]

Part of my problem is a chicken or the egg thing. Pre-pregnancy my period cramps used to upset my stomach. Now today I would start to get really bad cramps in my uterus and then a bit later realize I had to go to the bathroom right.that.second. Then I wonder was the cramping really from my stomach? Or was it BH cause my stomach to be upset?

But eating has made it worse today. Guaranteed trip to the potty. I've walked some, but it's hard to tell if it helped since it seems to come in spurts. I can't be too active due to PIH. No bath to bathe in just a stand up shower.

I really just want a beginning to an end lol

[h]

I had semi-painful contractions and cramping on and off for the last month or so of each of my pregnancies. I think that can be very normal. I was so used to having daily contractions by the end that it took me a long time to determine that real labor was real labor.

[drink227]

In the last month of my pregnancy I had cramps frequently. I would usually rest or shower and they would go away. The day I went info labor I had awful cramps on my way home from work but went away when I showered. Less than two hours later I had cramps again and my water broke. So it could be a sign could be BH.

[browneyedgirl9]

I thought i was just having crapms and couldn't sleep...by 2am started timing them...turns out i was in labor!

Good luck!

[gibbinator]

Could go either way. When I was in early labour I just thought I was constipated and spent several hours going to the toilet in an attempt to feel better.
Then I realized I was going to the bathroom regularly every 10 mins ;-)