u/ReliefSpiritual5754

FTM on the brink of insanity 🥲

I’ve been in early labour since Sunday afternoon. It’s now Tuesday morning. Having extremely and frequent painful contractions (every 2-5 mins) where I’m unable to sleep or rest properly at all.

Went to hospital last night and was only 2cm dilated.

I’m trying to stay optimistic but can’t believe the ‘hard part’ hasn’t even started. Im concerned about my ability to stay strong and have the birth I want when I’m so mentally and physically exhausted already.

Can anyone share positive stories or at least solidarity? I never factored this in to my thinking.

Ftm at 40 weeks. Yesterday regular contractions started around 1 in the afternoon. Since then I’ve had periods where they’ve established a regular cadence (eg every 6 mins) for hours and gotten progressively more painful.

I went to bed last night thinking I’d be in hospital by 1am but lo and behold I imagined to sleep through the contractions. I’m so happy to have rested but sad things haven’t progressed at all overnight.

Anything that helped you move into active labour more quickly? Everthing I read makes it sound like this stage only lasts 12 or so hours max 🤦‍♀️

Another factor is that my blood pressure is quite high so I’m worried if it doesn’t happen quickly they will rush to induce me. I was in hospital for it yesterday and they wanted me to come back in for a sweep this morning which is like to avoid (purely to avoid multiple trips to the hospital…!)

Currently 39 weeks and have been encouraged already to book an induction at 41 and 5.

In the meantime they have offered to give me a sweep and my 40 (I’ll actually be 39 and 4) and 41 week appointments.

Can anyone share their experiences with sweeps here, any details about how far along they were when they got them and whether they were successful?

Thank you!!!