Before I went into labour I had diarrhea too, I think thats the bodys way of clearing space to make way for baby to come through. Your pains sound similar to the ones I had a few days before actually giving birth.

Hopefully this is it for you, good luck.

the loo thing is a very good sign, like Tilly says, its the clear out befire labour starts.

Sounds like this may be the start for you, good luck!

x

ooooooo- well we'll have to wait and see.

Did you get them all through the night too? It feels like I need to keep going to the loo for a poo, but the period type pains are actually going all round my back too.

I had back pain/going to the toilet loads from Saturday night! the sunday night I had severe back pain and kept getting my boyfriend to rub it, with hardly any relief.. so I knew it was going to be soon.

When I woke up Monday morning I got up and "wee'd" on the floor lmao (my waters) although it was drips not a gush. I had a doctors appointment already booked, told her about leaking and she said to go to hospital if it continued. Monday night, could hardly sleep.. going to loo properly a lot and bad pains continued in my back. After a night of not sleeping for longer than 30 mins, I had my show then after that I couldn't sleep any more as I was having contractions every 15-20 mins!

*btw all my pain was in my back! thats why I wasn't 100% sure at first, I had a back birth (posterior).

Hope that helped a bit for comparison!

Just found this:


What's a posterior position?

Some babies go down into the pelvis with the back of their heads towards their mothers' spines. This is called a POSTERIOR position and it can lead to several things happening:

• Your waters are more likely to break at the beginning of labour.

• You have a lot of backache during and in between contractions.

• Labour is slower.

• You may need forceps or ventouse (a suction device) to help you give birth to your baby.

The close proximity between the baby's bony skull and your spine can be very uncomfortable, and you might well find that the best position to labour in is on all fours. In this position, your baby drops away from your spine, helping relieve the backache.

When your baby gets to the bottom of your pelvis, he'll need to turn through 180 degrees to get into the best position for him to be born. This can take quite a while, or your baby may decide he's not going to turn at all! In this case, he will be born with his face looking up at you as he emerges. He might need forceps or ventouse to help him out.

Maddie was back to back and i had a hell of alot of backache in labor and before with BOTH girls.

I had alot of stomach upsets and toilet issues too .... Just before i had maddie and deffo before i went into labor with ellie!

Sounds like it could be it!!

Sending you LOTS of labor vibes!!

GOOD LUCK!

xxx

Hiya Louise

I'm surprised you havn't already had him! - It does sound to me like you are getting close now though. My Nan only had pain in her back with all 8 of her labours, so don't let the fact that the pain isn't in your belly confuse you.

With Ky, I had the runs for 4 days before I had him. My contractions also started as a period like ache, then changed to period type pain, then unmistakable contactions!

I had a show at around 2-2:30am, which was around the time I had the period type pains. They built gradually and I was in and out of the bath. My waters broke in the bath at around 5-5:30am. My contractions really kicked in with the rupture of my membranes. Got to the hospital at around 7:30am and was 4 or 5cm dilated. I had Ky at 9:29am.

Hopefully not long now!

Oh rachie that was quite a quick labor!!

Make sure your at the hospital in time with this lil lady lol!!

Louise your gonna do great!

xxx

Louise.....I bet you'll be having your baby before I have mine!

I know - I'm a little conerned about the 40 Min drive to the hospital - Especially if Pauls at work, which means he'll have to drive 40 mins to get me, then it's 40 mins to the hospital......Paul will kill me if I have her in the car I can call an ambulance though but will be taken to a local hospital where everyone will be German rather than the one im under where they speak English.....I've been looking up how to say "epidural" lol!