So this weekend being the last weekend before the induction, I have been trying to do all the last minute preparations so that we're ready to go on time. I got Adam some snacks for the hospital, got a couple nursing bras, a cheap underware that I can ruin, did my hair, started the breast pump order, and did the hospital pregistry. So after all that, I THINK we're ready. While I was at walmart taking care of some of that stuff, I started having some contractions. I'm sure I looked like a cripple waddling all slowly through the store, but eventually the pains stopped. Then, while me and Adam were at a movie last night (the martian- incase you were wondering), I started getting those pains again. I hesitate to call them contractions because what I've thought were contractions before, may not have been. So anyway, they seemed to be happening fairly regularly.. which was freaking me out. I decided to try to go to the bathroom to see if that would relieve some pressure and out comes a quarter sized brown goopy thing! I know, sounds yummy. ;) After mentally freaking out the rest of the movie, I finally looked online to see if what I had passed could have been the mucus plug. Aaaaand I'm about 90% sure it was. So ya, the pains kept coming. I did notice that most of the pains were following a big movement from the baby. So I think some of them were just him pulling things around or something.. causing sharp pains for me. I did notice, however, some that my stomach just got super hard for and lasted closer to 30 seconds to a minute long. Those were most likely contractions if any were. I kept wondering why sitting at a movie would cause things to spike like that. Well, having GD, popcorn probably wasn't the best idea. And me and Adam shared a small popcorn! So maybe he just got hyper enough to push out the mucus plug and give me some contractions and other pains along the way. The pains continued all the way home and even after getting into bed! I was starting to get worried that maybe he decided he wanted to come out on his own. Eventually I fell asleep, so I guess the pains stopped. Once he settled down, then I think my body calmed down. I was reading some of the info that my dr gave me and based off the fact that the pains were mainly just lower front pelvic pains and that they would lessen or go away with walking or changing positions, they were prelabor pains. So, not the real thing. Glad I didn't call my dr and bug her. Another thing that concerned me was that the mucus plug came out and I didn't know what that meant or what to expect. I read that it can vary between people. It can send you into labor a couple hours after or it could take a week! And sometimes your body will develop a new mucus plug. Haha! So basically I just have to pay attention to my body and wait it out. I feel fine now that I've slept and the pains left. I'll be sure to keep anything else exciting coming.
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