What did your first few contractions feel like?

[lucylu79]

I was induced due to waters going and no natural progression last time and I'm due on Friday and curious as to how I 'might' feel when it happens, I'm determined in my mind I will go all natural this time (but prepared in case of other things)

I'm getting lots of pressure down below, lots of discharge which sometimes is thick but mainly a bit runny.

Sometimes I get a pain and I think this is it, a contraction starting, but it's always been baby moving into a tight position

So what's it like? If it happened during the night I assume the pain would wake me up?

If you wish to share that would be lovely to read

 

[lewood88]

Contractions for me felt like painful IBS pains but I know for others it can be different x

 

[Take2]

I found it started in my back and felt like achey period crampy pain

 

[flowergirl7]

I was having small contractions before my water broke. I didn't know it at the time though. It didn't hurt at first it felt like baby was pushing his but up every once in a while.

 

[MnGmakes3]

Following along cause I've been having period cramps on and off all night.
Fx'd for you lucy!

 

[kaths101]

Mine were like waves of period pain to start with, then I had one where it felt like someone was tearing my insides out and it ramped up from there haha. I found walking around helped with my contractions, keep calm and breath through them. It used to help me to count in my head.

 

[Mrs_Bump]

Honestly I just felt a bit tight every once in a while with mild pain, it didn't really feel like period pains to me as those are constant for me. I was induced last time too with the pessary thing. It didn't really hurt until around 5 cm for me but everyone is different.

 

[lucylu79]

I know its totally ridiculous to assume I won't know immediately the second I start but i'm just waiting and waiting, which again is silly, why should I be so impatient over Sooooo much pain!!!

 

[eva1978]

I didn't go into labour with my first but did with my second. He was already slightly overdue. The afternoon before I had some mild period-like pains (but less painful than when I have period cramps... I wouldn't even call it pain). But that night - yep it woke me up The first hour or so I only had a few of them and about 20 mins apart, so I tried to relax to save energy. But then at some point it just got too intense (and more frequent), and I had to get up. The intense feeling was more in the "butt" area, lol. Or maybe it was around the cervix area (though I didn't end up dilating [only to 1 cm], so I'm not sure if it would have been the cervix). Water only broke a few hours later once we made it to the hospital. I thought I had peed myself!

Other symptoms I had when labour started - some of these I only remember because I wrote them down later: major shaking/shivering, feeling nauseated and throwing up a bit, and general sick feeling/tummy troubles.

 

[Willow82]

Mine felt like my back and stomach were being put in a wrench. Not sure how typical that is though at that early stage!

 

[Bevziibubble]

Mine were like very strong cramps. They just hit me out of nowhere!

 

[MnGmakes3]

For those that had mild period cramping at first- how long before you had that first real contraction??

 

[lucylu79]

For those that had mild period cramping at first- how long before you had that first real contraction??

Yes ditto!! We are determined to have these babies aren't we!!

 

[lucylu79]

Hubs and I dtd this afternoon and i'm definitely feeling crampy afterwards!

 

[kaths101]

For those that had mild period cramping at first- how long before you had that first real contraction??

My first light pains started about 1am, the ripping contraction was about 5am and got harder from there, baby born at 9:52am

 

[MnGmakes3]

For those that had mild period cramping at first- how long before you had that first real contraction??

Yes ditto!! We are determined to have these babies aren't we!!

Lol what gave it away?

 

[eva1978]

For those that had mild period cramping at first- how long before you had that first real contraction??

period-like discomfort started maybe around 3 pm... real contractions around 1 am. So about 10 hrs later.

 

[lucylu79]

So last night I got up and went for a wee, when I laid back down I had a feeling like lots of little bolts getting tightened until they released, so hard to explain sorry! I really thought something was happening but there was no pain, just discomfort and I passed it off as baby moving and then I did pass wind. I feel ok again today but I've lost a massive amount of discharge which was in a big blob, snot like but no blood.

I'm hoping at the least somethings slowly starting?!

 

[Take2]

I went into labour the day after I lost my mucus plug Lucylu79 so things might happen soon!!

 

[likeaustralia]

The pain of my first "real" contraction did wake me up, but I wasnt 100% sure what it was until it happened again. This is weird, but to me it felt like a VERY intense full bladder. Like if you've been in the car and really have to pee and can't find a rest stop for hours, and your bladder aches... that's how it started for me. It was also accompanied by a very tight belly that almost took my breath away. Before that, I felt contractions, but they were just mild tightenings of the belly and kind of sharp prodding at my cervix.