Eat well, stay hydrated, empty your bladder regularly, and keep yourself focused on anything other than the contractions you're feeling.If you would be sleeping normally at that time of day, sleep (or at least lay in bed and rest).In the words of my doula trainer, Therese Hak-Kuhn, " Do Life." My advice to everyone preparing for labor is to ignore your labor until you can not ignore it any more. See why this can be so confusing for folks? If you are laboring with your second, third, or later baby, you may be susceptible to prodromal labor that comes on at night and fades by morning. The contractions may produce some cervical change, such as softening the cervix or bringing it from a posterior to more anterior position, but won't result in much cervical dilation. The prodromal phase can typically last anywhere from 24-72 hours, although it can also come and go throughout the day. Contractions might follow in a few hours or days and progress normally, so you only realize that those things were signaling the start of labor in hindsight.įor others, the prodromal phase starts with contractions. These contractions can be quite regular, but usually they do not progress, or become longer, stronger and closer together for some time. For some pregnancies, the prodromal phase is just a vague set of symptoms, like loose stool, loss of the mucous plug and a strong nesting instinct. So in general, the prodromal phase of labor refers to the earliest signs that labor is beginning. In medicine, the "prodrome" or "prodromal phase" refers to an early symptom or set of symptoms indicating the onset of a condition. This phase is called PRODROMAL LABOR, and wow, does it cause a lot of confusion. But there's another phase that doesn't happen in every labor, but does happen in many births, especially first ones.
When we talk about how long labor lasts and the phases of labor, you usually learn about three phases in the first stage of labor: Early labor, Active Labor and Transition. So you go to the hospital and have your cervix checked, only to find that you are only 1-2 cm dilated and they want to put you on some pitocin or send you home. So you resolve not to rest, not to relax you are going to stay active and upright and get this baby out! After 18 hours of walking around your neighborhood, rocking on your birth ball, and having your partner press on your sacrum, you figure you must be getting close to having your baby. Sometimes you feel a little tired and start to get relaxed and try to rest, and your contractions ease up a little. Over the course of the day, they keep going, but don't ever get much stronger, longer, or closer together. "I can handle that."Ī few weeks later, you begin to feel steady contractions, and having never been in labor before, you think they feel fairly strong. You go to your childbirth education classes, and hear that labor usually lasts 12-24 hours for a first birth.
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