Signs of Early Labor – Now What Do I Do?

Before the signs of early labor begins there are a lot of hormonal changes going on inside your body. You start making less progesterone and more prostaglandins. The prostaglandins helps your cervix soften and get ready to dilate. This is a sign your pregnancy is coming to its grand finale and labor will be starting soon!
Prostaglandins hormone also makes your uterus a little more sensitive. Your uterus reacts by having contractions. This time those small contractions start to feel like menstrual cramps that come and go, or pressure low in the pelvis, or maybe even some low back pain. These are signs of early labor or pre-labor.
If this is your first baby, you may lose your mucous plug, which is also known as “Bloody Show”. If you see something that looks a bit alien-like in your undies, that’s probably your mucous plug! It looks like stringy, brownish bloody, or pinkish boogers. Yep! It’s a bit YUCKY! If this isn’t your first baby, this is a sign that labor is beginning.
In early labor you begin to have contractions that come regularly. Contractions become longer, stronger, and closer together. That’s how you know this is labor!I Just keep track of the first 4-5 to see how far apart they are.
Your early labor contractions will also begin to last longer, and longer, and they will start to come more frequently as early labor progresses.

Whatever you do, don’t rush off to your hospital or the birth center! Unless your doctor or midwife gave you specific instructions on when to go, the best place for you and your baby is at home or in a place where you can relax, eat, take a nap, and feel emotionally and physically comfortable.
Ignore everything you’ve ever seen on TV or in movies about labor and birth. Labor rarely happens so fast that you won’t make it to the hospital (ESPECIALLY FIRST LABORS)
Whatever time of the day or night it is when your labor starts, do what you would normally do. Most moms and babies are safer at home in early labor.
Most women in labor arrive way too early to the hospital and get sent home if you’re not 5-6 cm dilated.
Do any one or all of these five things if you think you are in labor:

You can carry on a conversation.
You can laugh at a joke.
You’re still feeling excited and can talk on the phone to friends or family.
You can still post to Facebook or Instagram.
You can smile.
You don’t want to eat because you’re too excited. (EAT!)
It’s the middle of the night and you can’t sleep because you’re happy your baby is on the way.
You think labor will go faster if you go to the hospital or birth center. (It Won’t!)

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