cramping

[genamarie]

My cramping started maybe two days ago, it was pretty light, nothing too bothersome, so I wrote it off. Today, I woke up feeling nauseous and like I was on the verge of throwing up, which is odd for me as I never even had the whole morning sickness bit that a lot of if not most women go through when pregnant. For a few hours afterwards I felt more of the light cramping which feels like period cramps and is associated with braxton hicks contractions. Around about 9-10 this evening (several hours later), I started having the light cramping coming back, but with slight braxton hicks contractions, and light back pain. I posted earlier, and the consensus seemed to be that they are normal "growing pains" due to baby's growing size and all, so I wrote it off again. But now, 2 a.m. I'm sitting here with the same cramping sensations, only much more uncomfortable than before, and painful, with the occasional contraction, and the pain from this cramping is resonating down into my legs up to my knee caps..

I've dealt with preterm labor from 26 weeks and up.
I'm 100% effaced, 2 cm dilated, the Dr. checked me last and said he could feel baby's head, and the membranes.

I'm sorry for posting again, but I'm a little worried, and I don't necessarily want to head to labor and delivery again, as I was just released at 32 weeks exactly, and my Dr. said to look for mostly intense things like bleeding, or my water breaking.. but something just doesn't feel right about this?

I know I'm possibly overreacting, but the last several times I had issues and didn't feel right and was told to write it off like it was nothing, it ended up being preterm labor, and I spent week 26-32 in the hospital on strict bed rest and am currently still on bed rest at 33 weeks and 1 day now.

[genamarie]

Will do!

[Flickan]

Anytime...keep us updated!

[genamarie]

Hmm. That's a great idea, I didn't think about that. I'll try to give them a call, after being there so long, they basically all know me now. Hopefully it's nothing that seems to be a problem.

Thanks for the recommendation!

[Flickan]

Can you call the nurses in l&d? They have your records and can tell you I'd its something worth going in about. I have done that several times to try ands save myself a trip...worked twice.

[genamarie]

It appears to come and go about every 10 minutes just about, maybe more or less at times, but roughly that often. He's been moving like crazy ever since I started feeling the more painful/uncomfortable cramping a couple hours ago, and he usually is most active at night, so at least I know he's doing alright. But still, I'm a little worried that this could mean further dilating, and possibly labor. Being 2 centimeters dilated now, I never felt anything major to have known I ever dilated in the first place. The one and only time I ever felt like I was truly going into labor they ended up putting me on magnesium and even though I felt the contractions that ended up really close together and painful, I never dilated that night. So I'm worried I won't know when/if I dilate further until it's the real deal..but then again, I'm worried I won't know when true labor is coming on until it's too late to be pushed off a little longer :/

[Flickan]

Can you find a pattern to the pain? Trust your gut...if you think something is wrong....something probably is.

[tabit414]

I know that going back to the hospital is the last thing you want to do, but honestly when it comes to yours and your little ones health you really should follow your instinct about something not being right. Personally i would go to the ER