When I was due with my second child, I had 4 +
weeks of prodromal labor (not that I knew what it was at the time; I called it false labor because I'd never heard of prodromal labor).
After four full
weeks of prodromal labor and a full week past my due date, I resigned myself to the fact that obviously this baby was never going to come out and just started obsessively cleaning (not realizing I was nesting...)
She provided amazing pre-labor support — I experienced three
weeks of prodromal labor — and gave good advice as to how to identify when labor was progressing compared with just making my day hell.
Weeks upon
weeks of prodromal labor tends to end that way.
Not exact matches
I would say the first trimester was rough because I had bad nausea (curable only by eating lots
of white carbs, potatoes and GF crackers all day every day) and then I felt great from Months 4 - 7.5, then I started to feel HUGE and I also experienced
prodromal labor for 4
weeks before delivery.
I endured two
weeks of nightly «
prodromal labor,» which means painful, real contractions that just never get their act together and progress into actual
labor.
We're struggling to make ends meet because
prodromal labor at least once a
week since 36w4d had us figuring that i wouldn't go «post dates» and I took off work at 40w1d (unpaid since I am a nurse and had to use most
of my PTO covering low census days that I was canceled).
I turned over and was able to hold her for the first time... and 41
weeks of pregnancy, a month
of prodromal labor and just over 3 hours
of intense
labor immediately became worth it in an instant as I stared into her eyes.
I ended up with
prodromal labor for 4
weeks, and baby was born after 24 + hours
of back
labor (though out in 5 pushes and water didn't break until pushing.)
With all
of my pregnancies I get
prodromal labor starting around 24
weeks until I deliver.