33w1d, 3rd child, measuring larger, bloody show - labour coming soon? hospital no bloody help whatsoever! Well last night had a lot of cramping and bloody mucous discharge and not so much the urge to push as my body just bloody well doing it anyway - that lasted for about half an hour then tapered o...

I warn you now that this is going to be upsetting to read, so I'm putting it behind a cut. My mom had three children. Me, my sister, and a brother who was born too early and didn't make it. We never really talk about that much. I was too young to remember it (maybe a year old) and my sister hadn't b...

Last post tonight, I promise. I started looking up signs of preterm labor and I'm kind of confused. One site I looked at gave the following list as signs: Uterine contractions that may or may not be painfulFeeling that the baby is balling upCrampsLow backacheSensation of pelvic pressurePain or disco...

This entry was taken from my journal. At my last midwife appointment, the midwife did an exam because I've been feeling intense pressure for the last few months. I had it early on with Angela as well, leading right up until when she was born, so I wasn't really worried. She said that I was at least ...

Baby Corvin tried to scare the shit out of myself and everyone around me yesterday in the form of pre-term labor resulting in hospitalization for almost 10 hours. Around 2:30 yesterday while I was sitting at work, I got sharp stabbing pains right below my ribs on my right side. I was on the computer...