Signs of Labor

• You have vaginal bleeding.
• You have a severe, continuous headache or vision changes, chest pain, you experience sudden and rapid weight gain, puffy face or hands.
• You experience persistent uterine cramping, backaches, or contractions of any frequency prior to 36 weeks (one month before your due date or earlier).
• You are having more regular painful contractions every five minutes or less for two hours and are more than 36 weeks
• You do not feel your baby move for several hours after 28 weeks or if you think there is a significant decrease in your baby's activity (less than 10 movements per hour during a time of regular activity)
• You are having regular painful contractions every five minutes or less for two hour and are more than 36 weeks.
• Your bag of water breaks, regardless of presence/absence of contractions. Repetitive leakage or a gush of fluid from the vagina.
• You are having vaginal bleeding similar to a period.
• If you have a temperature greater than 101 degrees.
• Abdominal trauma or car accident.

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