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How long do you generally bleed for your first period? I have been bleeding very heavily (going through a tampon and pad an hour) and just wanting to know how long it usually lasts. Also is going through that much normal or does it seem like a bit much?

I am currently a CNA and am looking for jobs but all i see are Patient Care Tech. positions. Are the the same thing or is one more qualified than the other?

how can you tell if you have the baby blues and when it elevates to postpartum depression. I have just been down in the dumps for the past couple of days. I had my daughter a little over two weeks ago. The first week we were home was great now i started school again and just feel like everything is falling apart and there is nothing i can do about it.

Is this normal or could this be something more? I think i might lose it and have a total break down if i dont figure this out soon!

I am 39 weeks and 2 days. All day today i couldnt do anything but sleep, i am totally exhausted. I have also been neasous and had diarrhea all day. My stomach is crampy and i have also been having some contractions. Hotflashes also come and go and my feet and ankels are very swallen for the 1st time.I know there is really nothing that i can take but i just feel like hell. I am already dilated to a 3 and 80% effaced (as of last wed.) Also fetal movement has decreased signifigantly compared to what it was but is till 10 in a hour.

What can i do to help this along faster? I am miserable.

So over the past couple of days i have been really dragging. I can barly stay awake for longer than 2 hours at a time and then i have to sleep for a couple hours. I also have diarhea and have just been sick to my stomach. I have been having hotflash type things for a couple of hours and having some contractions. I am 39 weeks and 2 days today. I am also dilated to a 3 and 80% effaced. Also my baby has still been moving but has drastically slowed down...what is going on with me?

i am 39 weeks and 1 day. I am dilated 3cm and 80% effaced. Today i started to notice that i am having a thick white discharge. I dont know if that is common in pregnancy or if this is dangerous. i dont know if it is a yeast infection or what. What do you do in this situation. I know it is not my mucus plug because i have been losing that for 2 weeks and it is yellowish...this is totally white so i have no clue. Any advice will help! Thanks

I have been having these pains every 5 minutes or so for the past 2 hours. They are so severe that they bring tears to my eyes and require me to move to help with the pain but it doesnt go away for about 45 seconds. Are these contractions or what are they? They are incredibably painful and i almost cant stand them anymore. They feel like someone is ripping and stabbing my cervix.

Please any advice.

I am going to be 39 weeks tomorrow and have been in "labor" for a month. I have been slowly progressing to 3 cm and 80% over this last month. The baby has been down and engaged the whole time as well. Starting tonight i feel like she has dropped again. She is sitting right on my pelvic bone (which is possibly fractured from falling at 35 weeks) so it is incredibably painful. But also tonight it seems like everytime i go to the bathroom i have had an noticable increase in discharge and more mucus. (i have been losing my mucus plug for almost 2 weeks. What do you think? How much longer does it seem like i have?

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Is it normal to feel a little depressed when you are approaching your due date? i was so excited because at my 38 week appointment i was dilated 3 cm and 80% effaced. Now at this weeks appointment i had made no progress and i had been making some every week. For some reason over the past couple of days since we went to the dr. i have been down in the dumps about everything. Is this normal or is this something searous?

I am 38 weeks and 4 days pregnant and i have my weekly appointment tomorrow. On friday i will have been dilated and having contractions(not regular but strong) for a month. Last week i was at a 3 and 100% effaced and over the weekend and untill today i have been have contractions every 8-10 minutes and sometimes getting between 3-5 minutes apart. If i am dilated to a certain point tomorrow will they keep me and help this process speed up or probably just send me home? The baby has been engaged for this whole month too so what will they do? I am so uncomfortable.

I am currently 38 weeks and 3 days pregnant. My due date is August 15th. Starting the 25th of August i have to go back to school. I really have no choice because if i am not a full time student i lose my insurance. My daughter will be covered under my boyfriends insurance but i will not until we get married and we are just at the point yet. It will be about a year before we have a wedding. Is it safe to go back to school that soon? I know that everyone says to take it easy for a couple weeks but i really dont have much of a choice.

I am 38 weeks and 2 days pregnant and i thought that i had started losing my mucas plug 8 days ago. I had been losing quarter size chunks atleast once a day since then. I have heard that your mucus plug is brown on and bloodish tinted color but mine is yellow. It looks like a bunch of snot...sorry for tmi. Is this what it is or should i be more concerned about what this is?

I am 38 weeks pregnant tomorrow and have had a mucus like discharge off and on for the past 6 days(since sunday). Each time it is between a dime to a quarter size amount. Is that my mucus plug? and if so how long should it take until i lose the whole thing?

I am 37 weeks and 6 days and am already 3 cm and 100% effaced. I have been experiencing braxton hicks contractions all day but they are not regular, also i have been have almost a ripping vaginal pain every 15-20 minutes that i have no clue what it is. In the past hour or so i have had diarrhea 3 times. Could these be signs that i am in early labor? if not what could all of these things be?

2 weeks ago tomorrow i fell at the gas station and it put me into PTL. While i was at the hospital i was dilated to a 1-2 and 50% effaced and stationed at a 0. I went to the dr. last wednesday and nothing had changed. Yesterday i went to the dr. again and was 2.5-3 cm and 80% effaced and stationed around a +1. I am also still having contractions every 8-10 minutes. Will i be having this baby soon? I hurt my pelvis and hip when i feel and they cannot do anything about it until i have the baby. What do you think?

2 weeks ago tomorrow i fell at the gas station and it put me into PTL. While i was at the hospital i was dilated to a 1-2 and 50% effaced and stationed at a 0. I went to the dr. last wednesday and nothing had changed. Yesterday i went to the dr. again and was 2.5-3 cm and 80% effaced and stationed around a +1. I am also still having contractions every 8-10 minutes. Will i be having this baby soon? I hurt my pelvis and hip when i feel and they cannot do anything about it until i have the baby. What do you think?

2 weeks ago tomorrow i fell at the gas station and it put me into PTL. While i was at the hospital i was dilated to a 1-2 and 50% effaced and stationed at a 0. I went to the dr. last wednesday and nothing had changed. Yesterday i went to the dr. again and was 2.5-3 cm and 80% effaced and stationed around a +1. Will i be having this baby soon? I hurt my pelvis and hip when i feel and they cannot do anything about it until i have the baby. What do you think?

Lastnight i fell and went to the hospital, come to find out that i was having contractions and dilated to a 2 and 50% effaced. They tried to stop the contractions but neither of the meds they gave me worked. Now that i am still having contractions how long should it be until she gets here? I am only 35 weeks but they told me that if they couldnt stop the contractions we just had to let it go.

Ok so tonight i fell while i was pumping gas at the gas station. I tripped over the hose and hit my side and hip on the raised part of the concrete. I dont think i hit my belly at all but i know i did a number on my hips and i cannot walk, not even 10 feet to the bathroom. I am contemplating going to the hospital but i have felt the baby move numerous times in the past 2 hours since i fell. Should i go to the emergency room or stay at home and rest and see what happens tomorrow?

OK so my and my hubby have been taking advantage of the sex induces labor saying and have been having it alot lately. Today we did and both agreed that it felt a little weird and afterwards i was in pain. I had vaginal and abdominal pain. I felt like the baby was literally sitting there pushing on my cervix. I am worried that we may have caused some problems by having sex today. Ever since then i have constantly been having BH contractions, some of them painful and some of them not. What should i do? or has this ever happened to anyone else before...BTW i am 35 weeks as of today and the baby is fully engaged.