uh oh.....is this it?? ***UPDATE***

Okay so I have been having hard bhs all day and I know what they feel like but just an hr ago I have been getting what feels like bad gas pains like I gotta go number two....the last one I had almost made me tear up it hurt...it's low in my abdomen and my stomach tightens but not as much as my regular bhs I get...this is more pain like a period....am I having true contractions or do you think Its something else....they seem to be coming every 8-9 minutes.....first time I actually said smurf....is this it??

Sounds like it could be the start of it!

Could be. Try going on a walk, see if things progress! =)

Not 100% but it sounds familiar. My water broke but I didn't realize it right away cuz I had one small gush and then I didn't keep leaking (I think DD was blocking it cuz she was so far down). Then the pain started; it was both pain and pressure like I was so severely constipated. I swore up and down for an hour and a half that I just had to go to the bathroom and was having constipation cramps. Every time I'd sit on the toilet I'd go a little so I thought that was all I needed. It was an hour and a half later that I lay down in tears that SO made me go to the hospital and I was in fact in labor.
I'd say keep timing them, eat something, get cleaned up. Then when they get a little closer together, if they do, then go to the hospital to get checked. Better safe than sorry!

Sounds like it. Go for a hard walk or bounce on an exercise ball and try to eat something because they won't let you at the hospital and you will need fuel!

Random double post...

<blockquote><b>Quoting Will☮Creedence:</b>" Sounds like it. Go for a hard walk or bounce on an exercise ball and try to eat something because they won't let you at the hospital and you will need fuel!"</blockquote>




I don't have a ball but I have a rocking chair....would that help you think?

That sounds a lot like what I had, but it lasted for about 3 days... So you still might have some time!

Quoting Tara McG:" Okay so I have been having hard bhs all day and I know what they feel like but just an hr ago I have ... [snip!] ... do you think Its something else....they seem to be coming every 8-9 minutes.....first time I actually said smurf....is this it??"

Sounds like the begining! I'd be sleeping if I were you. Or eating.

my contractions were like period cramps on roids. Never felt like an actual contraction. I actually labored at home for 6 hours before I decided to go in. They were less than 5mins apart from the start, but they started to die down around hour 5. So I went on small walks around my house (it was poring down rain outside) every time I walked they got stronger and closer together. So I went in and 6cm.

Time them and take walks around your house. I had fake labor for 4 hours a week before I had my LO. If they get stronger, closer together, and don't stop when you walk then it's possible that that's labor.

sounds like it could be it! I started having what felt like period cramps that I could sleep through then they got bad like burning pain sorta like when your going to have the runs and it was it for me! Had her 4 hours after the painful ones woke me up.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Mamitita:</b>" sounds like it could be it! I started having what felt like period cramps that I could sleep through ... [snip!] ... pain sorta like when your going to have the runs and it was it for me! Had her 4 hours after the painful ones woke me up. "</blockquote>




That's what the last one felt like..the burning I've gotten up everything thinking ima have a bout of diarrhea but nothing happens....:/ blah this is frustrating.....

Hehe, you have way more progress then me.  

Good luck!

<blockquote><b>Quoting Allure:</b>" Hehe, you have way more progress then me.  "</blockquote>




Haha, I'm sorry mama...I'm hopping this is it...it would be nice...but standing up rocking back and forth instead of sleeping is not really fun, but hey...we will both get there eventually!