Feeling nauseous - labor coming soon?

Question

Hi, girls! I am 39 weeks pregnancy. A week ago I had a brown, mucus discharge (which I assume was my mucus plug or at least part of it.) Then, my kiddo dropped (I know this because all of a sudden I felt pressure in my vagina, my stomach changed shape and I started having a sensation like I had to go to the bathroom. I had three days of bliss... great energy, walked 3 miles a day, etc.

But today I was hit with debilitating fatigue... so bad that I can barely walk up a flight of stairs. I am also extremely nauseous. I hesitate to think that I'm going into labor (and don't want to get my hopes up b/c my mom and sister both went to week 41 and had to be induced.)

Did anyone else feel this way - and if so - how long afterwards did you go into labor?

Thanks!!!

Let me add that when I mean vaginal pressure - his head is pressing down on my cervix. I don't feel him in the canal. But thank you for the concern! :)

Answer 1

Did you even contact your doctor when you lost your mucus plug? If you feel that you have to have a bowl movement, then that means that you are ready, that's what I felt, and when I called the nurse in she said that was the first sign of being ready to push. When she checked me, I was ready. So the signs of fatigue and nausea, that just means that you are getting close.........but when you feel those unbearable pains, coming at least every 5-10 minutes, then you might wanna call your doctor(I'm just letting you know what your doctor is gonna say, because I heard the same thing when I was pregnant, and we tell all of our patients the same), so just hang in there, it will be all worth it!

Answer 2

Call the doctor babe......you might all ready be there. Actually, I think you should call the hospital, that sensation of the baby in the birth canal might mean that you are going to have a very quick labor!

Hi babe, I never felt mine pressing down like that until I was crowning....45 minutes after they broke my water, I had only been dialated to five at the time....they said I could push and he crowned.......then they held him there while my mom and another nurse whisked me off to the delivery room....I only had a lightening before that, never that pressure....

The good thing is......you'll know when its happening...congratulations! I was lucky enough not to have pain either til that last 45....just a tightening in my belly that I could watch......

Answer 3

I felt that way with my second son! definetly not a good feeling but I went in labor the day after the nausea and plug and I delivered 2 days after that!! Congrats