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I've been having contractions every 15 minutes all evening. Actually, they started last night and continued with some regularity all day, but I didn't bother timing them until we were sitting in our Bible study group tonight and I wasn't being so active. They seem to be gradually growing in intensity, but still quite ignore-able.
I am not just going to sit around and time contractions for another two weeks, so I figure I'll try to ignore them until I can't ignore them any more. There aren't any other symptoms of impending labor, so I'm assuming this is just more of the same pre/false labor stuff. I have better things to do with my energy and attention than wondering whether I'm going into labor or not for 5 weeks straight, LOL. It's so nice to be mildly excited rather than worried about it, though, now that it's just about a week till the estimated due date.
Judging from the last few weeks, this doesn't necessarily mean a thing . . . it's just slightly tiring and annoying, but at the same time a bit exciting. I am getting eager to meet our baby!
I am not just going to sit around and time contractions for another two weeks, so I figure I'll try to ignore them until I can't ignore them any more. There aren't any other symptoms of impending labor, so I'm assuming this is just more of the same pre/false labor stuff. I have better things to do with my energy and attention than wondering whether I'm going into labor or not for 5 weeks straight, LOL. It's so nice to be mildly excited rather than worried about it, though, now that it's just about a week till the estimated due date.
Judging from the last few weeks, this doesn't necessarily mean a thing . . . it's just slightly tiring and annoying, but at the same time a bit exciting. I am getting eager to meet our baby!
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Posted by purple_kangaroo at 10:32 PM[Permanent link]
3 Comments:
very exciting! we're all eager to hear about your baby, too. :)
How exciting!
I never liked the term false labor because it implies that nothing is getting accomplished. And that is not exactly true. The early contractions may not be what a practictioner would term active labor but that doesn't mean the contractions aren't preparing your body for birth. Often the cervix is thinning during this time.
Thanks, both of you. Jo(e), that's what my midwife says . . . that even though this is annoying, it's a lot easier than the more intense kind of labor and it's still working to prepare my body and eventually get the baby out easier.
This morning they were 7 minutes apart for a while and felt like menstrual cramps, but now they are hardly noticeable again.
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