Long haul labour!

My MW thinks I'm in for a 'long haul labour' and I could go in a few days or a week.    She said by what has been happening (contractions every few minutes), she doesn't think I'll get to 40 weeks.. but..

Am I going to wake up each morning and have contractions and period pains that build up over the course of the day only to stop again?

Is it just niggles?   Argh, I don't know what my body is doing!

I'm 1CM dilated and my cervix is soft and favourable and the machine thingy picked up contractions, albeit not overly strong ones every 5 minutes while being monitored.

Oh and after the internal (OUCH OUCH OUCH) I had a HUGE contraction which almost made us turn the car around last night.    I went in for monitoring at about 2AM. I feel bad for calling my midwife so I think I'll wait for definite ouchy ouchy ones next time rather than regularity.   

He's also pretty much engaged, I'm measuring 40 weeks and I feel 'off' IFKWIM.

I don't know, can anyone humour me?   Or at least tell me a nice story about how this turned into full blown labour after a day or so?

I can't , as I said on your facebook I was 4cms dilated for 4 days before finally going into proper labour and that was after 2 weeks of contractions that came and went , BUT , I can tell you what the mw says would have helped if I'd done it earlier ....
Lots of relaxing, baths lying on your left side , sleeping on your left side, and trying not to get too anxious and stressed out (hard I know ) .
It sounds like your body is very near ready , I think it will be only a few more days , fingers crossed for you !

Edited by caitlynsmygirl

oh this brings back memories
i had this with both my 2nd and worse with my 3rd.
with my 2nd this went on for about a week. til he came and no it wasnt a long haul birth once things did happen it was only 50mins til he was born.

with my 3rd it went on for almost 3wks some nights they were 3-4mins apart and painful enough to have to move around, that started in my 37th week and he didnt come til 2days overdue. i went in that morning for a s&s was 2cm, was told he prob wouldnt come for another 24hrs+. that night i had the usual false labour contractions but to my surprise they didnt stop and he was born after a 3-4hr labour.

dito on the bath, i found swimming and nice baths helped alot during that time.

Edited by rorylex

oh, should add that when labour did go into full gear I got to the birthing unit at 3:30 am and was 7cms , and he was born at 4:44am after 15 mins of pushing, so definetly not long haul !