Pre-Labour Symptoms?

I am 35 weeks along and been having tons of tightenings and BH for the last weeks...lots of discharge and usual pregnancy discomforts but as off yesterday I feel a slight change....

Yesterday my lower back started aching...just enough to annoy - not painful per se.

All throughout last night...I would wake up with slight pains in my lower back and in my pelvic area....like very very mild menstrual cramping.

I'm still getting alot of tightenings BUT not unlike what I've been getting for the last few weeks.

This am, the pelvic and back cramps are still there....it's like a dull ache...not like it comes on strong and then goes away but almost constant....

Could this be pre-labour?

I live an hour away from the hospital and we have no child care today for my toddler so going to get checked would be alot of work but I just thought to post on here and see what your opinions are....

Could I be dilating while having this dull ache in my back and pelvic area?

OR is this just another symptom of the 3rd trimester?

Any thoughts?

 

Are you timing the tightenings? 'Real' contractions for me felt like menstrual cramps.

 

QUOTE(becky5 @ May 17 2009, 08:15 AM) [snapback]1316869[/snapback]
Are you timing the tightenings? 'Real' contractions for me felt like menstrual cramps.


i'm still hanging in there, monitoring how i feel....the cramping is more like a constant dull ache in my lower back and pelvic area (like mild period cramps) but the tightenings are intermittent....

i'm going to give it another few hours to see if it's progressing and then i might decide to go in.

 

Good luck, i could be signs of the beginning of labor. I agree you should be timing yourself and see how you continue to feel.

 

How are you doing? With any kind of period-like cramping, I would go in. :hug:

 

UPDATE:

SO I DO THE 2 HOUR DRIVE AND WAIT 5 HOURS FOR SOMEONE TO CHECK ME...WTH? GOOD THING I WAS NOT IN ACTIVE LABOUR....THE ATTENDING DOC HAD TO LEAVE ME 2XS FOR DELIVERIES....(FELT SO BAD FOR DH HAVING TO SIT IN A HARD CHAIR FOR 5 HOURS WHILE I RESTED ON THE BED...)

ACCORDING TO THE MONITOR, I WAS HAVING CONTRACTIONS AT REGULAR INTERVALS BUT THEY SAID BECAUSE I WAS NOT HAVING "PAIN" PER SE, THEY DID NOT CLASSIFY IT AS ACTIVE LABOUR. I SAID IT WAS VERY UNCOMFORTABLE AND TOOK MY BREATH AWAY BUT NOT LIKE I WAS IN ALOT OF PAIN....I TOLD THEM I HAD MENSTRUAL CRAMPING AND LOW BACK DULL ACHING...THEY SAID I WAS DILATED 1.5 CMS BUT COULD NOT SAY IF I WAS IN LABOUR...THEY OFFERED FOR ME TO SPEND THE NIGHT IF I WANTED TO SEE HOW I FEEL OVERNIGHT BUT WE OPTED TO COME BACK HOME AGAIN. THEY SAID IT COULD BE A PRECURSOR TO LABOUR OR IT COULD GO ON LIKE THAT FOR A WEEK...THEY COULD NOT SAY.

SO WE DROVE BACK HOME...ALL NIGHT LONG I HAD THE SAME ACHING....I FEEL GENERALLY CRAPPY (LIKE MY PERIOD IS GOING TO COME SOON TYPE FEELIN) MY BACK IS WORSE TODAY, KINDA RADIATING DOWN INTO MY HIPS....I'M GOING TO REST UP TODAY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AND JUST KEEP GOING ON HOW I FEEL...

AND THAT'S MY UPDATE. THANKS FOR YOUR REPLIES. WISH ME LUCK THAT ALL IS GOING WELL AND BABIES ARE COOKING FINE. (THEY ARE OVER 6LBS EACH NOW SO NOT LITTLE WEANLY BABIES IF THEY WERE TO ARRIVE NOW SO THAT'S A GOOD THING).