Couple questions!

[Leanna5813]

1. Do toddlers sense labor is coming? My 14 month old has been really clingy to me and wanting to comfort nurse a lot more. I've been telling him for quite a while that baby sister is coming soon but he just recently (within the last week) started becoming extremely attached and cuddly.

2. I've heard diarrhea is a sign of labor approaching. Do you have many loose bowel movements for it to be considered diarrhea? I have been having soft stools for a few days and then today out of nowhere I had to run to the bathroom. It was runny liquid, like diarrhea but its only been that once.

3. If diarrhea is a sign of labor, how close could labor be?

Sorry for TMI and TIA!

 

[Ashleii15]

Yes toddlers can definitely sense that birth is close! Just as animals like dogs can
Diahrea is also a sign of labour they say after 37 weeks, this includes lose bowel movements. But it doesn't nessacarily mean that birth/labour is near.
I have been having lose bowel movements & frequent for a few weeks now, I am 38+1 today.
But it is definitely your body preparing for birth!
It helps clear out your body before so it can solely focus on pushing baby out rather than also having to go to the washroom and push for a bowel movement at the same time. Just makes for a faster cleaner process afterwards