Actually the mother can be without realizing it(very light contractions, not felt or noticed by the mother but only by a machine monitor), Im also in tthe medical feild.Even if she is dialated 1 1/2 she can still have contractions and not dialate. I even had trouble dialating I stayed 1 -1 1/2 cm dialated for a week until the doctor put me in to be induced and that is when he softened my cervix with a medication. One of my close friends was in labour for a week as well, She wasnt even feeling the contractions and was OVERDUE by 2 weeks of due date. She had to have a c-section casue her baby was too big. He weighed in at 10lbs. 13 oz. BIG baby So did my baby sister she even had a 10 pound baby by c-section( her body aka plevis area was too small to deliver naturally)

These contractions are called braxton hicks contractions and majority of the women DONT feel them
http://www.babycenter.com...ons_156.bc
Women vary with labouring/delivery.

Meow85,

I hope she is doing ok honestly. I hope she gets the good drugs if she is in pain lol. I wish I could of had painkillers but they said it would of slowed the process down cause of some medical issue with my daughter and me being a high risk pregnancy.
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Yeah, yeah, Braxton-Hicks. We all know them These aren't REAL contractions. I had them from 4 months of pregnancy til the end Those don't mean you're in labor. I am also in the medical field

No doctor would allow a woman who is having REAL contractions to walk around for a week. Contractions put stress on the baby.

Of course, you can have contractions and not dialate. Many women have this issue. Still, it depends on the severity of the contraction before it is considered "Labor", which is why many women have false alarms.


Smooches;)

I had Braxton-Hicks for months.

Hey, the doctor said it was real labour, but clearly strangers on the internet know it wasn't.

Clearly you wanted mothers to respond to the thread? And that's what we are doing. What they are saying is true for some but everybody's labor is different. It can be hours or it can be minutes. There is no set normal.

According to MsMisha it wasn't possibly real labour or real contractions and "no doctor would allow a woman who is having REAL contractions walk around for a week."

Well, some do and my friend's doctor did. Nothing was progressing but they said there was no reason to be concerned so they sent her home with instructions to keep them posted. I doubt most doctors would elect to keep someone in hospital for a week if it wasn't necessary.

At any rate, the little girl is here.
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I agree my friend i just posted about in my previous post he rdoctor said that as well we spent many night driving her to the hospital and bringing her back home the doctor (which was my doctor later on) said there was no stress on the baby and yes i saw the monitor was sitting by her when she had strong contractions from time to time( they were not regular enough to be kept in the hospital) they sent her home. As I stated before women larbour differently then others NO labour is the same.

Glad ur friend had her baby Meow85. And her and baby are doing well.Wont be long before the wee one is grown up.

I agree my friend i just posted about in my previous post he rdoctor said that as well we spent many night driving her to the hospital and bringing her back home the doctor (which was my doctor later on) said there was no stress on the baby and yes i saw the monitor was sitting by her when she had strong contractions from time to time( they were not regular enough to be kept in the hospital) they sent her home. As I stated before women larbour differently then others NO labour is the same.

Glad ur friend had her baby Meow85. And her and baby are doing well.Wont be long before the wee one is grown up.

I had Braxton-Hicks for months.

Hey, the doctor said it was real labour, but clearly strangers on the internet know it wasn't.

Congratulations!

They need to come up with a less gross way to have babies. All that mucus talk and .

I agree and they need to come up with a less gross way in like 7 weeks.

I still can't believe she has a kid. I still remember her when she was 8, and now she's a mother!

I know the feeling it goes the same if you have a baby sister and she grows up ok im getting teary eyed

Seeing my younger sister turn 20 two years back was a trip, and we're only two years apart. How can someone who I remember in diapers be out of her teens?

trust me, before you know it you'll be counting your grays together