premature labor

hey! well, i just had my baby saturday, sept. 10, and she was premature, i was 4 weeks early, due oct. 8. i kind of figured i would go into premature labor, though, because i lost my mucus plug a couple of weeks ago. and i had been having severe lower back pain. my baby was also ‘engaged’ the doc said for 2 months, and the wednesday before i had her, i was dilated 2 centimeters at my appointment. but about the weird leg feeling, and the back pain and fluid: ok, i went into labor on saturday and had my baby. thursday, i was leaking watery stuff really bad, actually i had been doing that the whole week, i went through a whole pack of pads. then, thursday night, i kept getting this pinching feeling in my lower back like something kept pinching me. it was aggravating but it didn’t hurt really. then that night, my lower stomach started hurting, i know this might sound gross, but it is only way i know to explain it, but it felt like i was sick and needed to go to the bathroom. friday morning, my back was hurting really bad, and then all friday afternoon, i felt like i was having menstrual cramps. they hurt just enough to aggravate me, it wasn’t excrutiating or anything. the next morning, which was saturday, i kept feeling like i was going to start a period almost. and my back was still hurting, and my legs, the top of my thighs where they connect to your hips kept going numb, and then they would get tingly like your feet do when they go to sleep or lose circulation. and then at 10:22 in the morning, i was on computer and i heard this noise that sounded like i barely left the faucet on, and at the same time as that, i felt something warm running all down my legs like i peed on myself, lol i had on a pad, so when i got up, the pad was soaked, but my pants weren’t even wet yet, so i thought maybe it was just that stuff leaking again. then i stood up to go get the phone and call my mom and water gushed out everywhere and just continued to trickle out and come out in small gushes until i actually had the baby. the pad i had on had a slight pinkish tint to it, kinda like if you put a drop of red koolaid into a bottle of water, that’s what the amniotic looked like at first. then after a little while, it was coming out everywhere with slimy stuff in it that looked like egg whites. lol i know, sounds really gross, huh? but i had back labor really bad, my baby didn’t turn facing my back until like the last minute, so the bigger part of her head was rubbing on my spine and all my nerves, so my contractions hurt worse in my back and legs more than they did in my pelvic area.

but, that’s what happened to me the week before i went into labor basically, everything i wrote up there ^^. if you are experiencing any of that, you might want to call your doctor, especially if you still have 2 months left, because my baby was 4 weeks early, and is still in the NICU. she will be a week old saturday, sept. 17. so she’s been in there for almost a week now.

but go see your doctor! even if it isn’t labor, there could be something else wrong that you need to get treated, so i would go just to be safe.

and you might not have been having braxton hicks. i mean, yeah, it’s normal, but i went to the hospital on tuesday telling them everything that was wrong with me, and they sent me home after looking at my contractions on a monitor saying it was braxton hicks. and then 4 days later i had a premature baby… (we’re pretty pissed at the hospital right now, we feel like they should have caught it sooner with the symptoms i called in and said i had, and then maybe could have prevented it.)