Well today (looks at clock and see's it's gone 1am), ok I tell a lie, yesterday was just a pain. Literally. I honestly thought I'd gone into labour.
Woke up at 9am with really bad backache, nothing I did eased it. I had woken up thinking I'd slept in a dodgy position or something but the pain wouldn't go away. I had another hours sleep hoping that when I woke up, the back ache would be gone but when I woke up, it felt even worse and had travelled to my sides and was making it's way round to my front to the point I felt I had really bad period pain.
It was after an hour of this pain, I started having thoughts that it could be labour, but as it's my first child, I'm not entirely sure so figured the best thing to do would be to phone up the labour ward.
I relayed the info of how I was feeling to the midwife and she said it sounded like I was in the very early stages of labour. I was thinking "Wow" because it was painful and I knew if this was early labour it was going to get worse.
Anyway, she told me to moniter things, to call back in a few hours if things were still painful but in the meantime to take a bath or in my case, shower, put the shower head on my back and take some paracetamol to help with the pain, to which I did and the pain started to ease off.
Half an hour after the pain started to subside, the pain started coming back and it was more painful than the pains before, so I decided to get the TENS machine out. The pain was still there and although the TENS machine did soothe them a bit, the pain was slowly overriding and I had to turn the TENS up to mode 8, where I'd started at mode 5, which was a slight tingling sensation.
So the pain was still there at around 1pm, travelling round to my sides and my front and I felt really sore and as though I had really bad period pain, but nothing in my cervix, which I'm not sure whether it's something I'd feel anyway, because when I spoke to my friend, she said she didn't have feelings in her nether regions until it actually came to needing to push, so I'm not sure.
The midwife when I phoned at 1pm said to give it til 3pm, if the pains were still there, to call back up and she'd get me to come in to get checked over.
1:30pm comes along and the pain subsides, so I'm sat thinking, "OK, maybe it is nothing", but then 2:30pm comes along and the pain comes back and again, more intense than the one before and it was constant for 40 minutes.
But then this is where it goes all Pete Tong, as soon as I've got my stuff organised to go to the hospital to get checked over, the pains start to subside and when I'm sat at the hospital for an hour in the waiting room, the pains have completely gone.
I got put on a trace which showed the baby was fine, thank goodness and yet there were no contractions. They just stopped!
It's like the baby suddenly decided that he was shy and wasn't coming. So I'd gone from being in possible early labour to just back tracking completely and feeling like I'd wasted peoples time.
I've not felt anything much since we got back, I've got a bit of a very dull ache in my back, but nothing to the degree I had earlier on.
So feeling a bit deflated and blah right now. Hoping it happens soon and hoping it was early labour I was in that just decided to back track because if that wasn't early labour, then I am screwed because my good god, it hurt so bad!!!
Anyways, hope you're all well and I'll keep you posted if anything else happens.
xxx
