What did you eat just before you went into labour?

[ElliotGoss]

For me it was enchalidas. I'm having them today and they always remind me of the night before labour started.

Nothing because it was early in the morning and the. DH was really really pissing me off going on about eating something, honestly the last thing I wanted to do was eat!!

I did get pretty tired though!

I was already contracting and I had a chilli con carne.

Toast. An entire loaf, with butter, as my contractions started in earnest

Ham and coleslaw sandwich in hospital then literally went in to labour and pushed him out in 40 mins! Given that I 💩 myself too, am glad it wasn’t anything more offensive!!

Pasta with chorizo.
I saw it again 10 hours later.
I have not eaten chorizo since.

KFC followed swiftly by puking it up an hour later when I was in active labour. Such a waste 🤣

Lots of chocolate washed down with alcohol-free wine!

A whole rotisserie chicken.

Due baby number 2 next month so may try this again

I got a crazy urge to drink lucozade just before one of my labours. Never drank it before or since.

Curry! Worst decision ever as it all came back up a few hours later (DD came early so hadnt planned on it being that night!)

Corned beef and coleslaw roll that I randomly took with me into hospital after my waters broke (contractions hadn’t started yet)
I usually hate corned beef but it was a pregnancy craving, and I haven’t had it since.

American style State Fair Potato Salad with added crispy bacon.

Next time a Ham and Mushroom pizza.

Labour one: haddock in parsley sauce, mash and spinach.

I have no idea re labour's two and three because I never saw them again. Neither did I ever have gas and air again.

Pizza and coleslaw. Thought it would be a good idea to have a decent meal to get through the night. That backfired when I saw it all again an hour or so later. 2nd baby just had a salad before hospital

A curry and a pineapple.

She was overdue. We were trying to get things moving and it worked.

My first pregnancy they had me on nil by mouth due to be induced. I was absolutely starving by the end of it. When I went into labour on my second I was determined to eat all day and I did. It was 17 years ago and I can remember exactly what I ate. Toast for breakfast. Then I went into town (stupid really but I think I was in denial) I started in marks and spencer and had a toasted sandwich. Then I went to a tapas bar and had tortilla, croquetas, bread, garlic prawns. I then took myself off to my mums house and had chicken casserole. Needless to say I was very sick by 11pm when active labour started

DS1 can't remember.
DS2 I was in early labour in Pizza Express.

Pancakes! I made them between contractions 😂

Breakfast (probably cereal) followed by a three course Sunday roast including a G&T, a starter, roast gammon etc and a pud. Baby born at 18.12. All food still in place

Chilli squid, and ice cream. Not all together.

Curry, on the hotter side of medium (I usually go for mild to medium). Unlike others I didn't see it again when I threw up at 4am when the first contraction hit, just the lemon and ginger tea I'd had an hour before! However I can't face bananas after eating one quite late in labour...

McDonald's breakfast that dh bought into hospital for me and just like lots of others it came back up about 8 hours later.

Porridge! It was about 8am and I had been having contractions since 6.30am!
Then nothing until tea and toast, which was awful as my mouth was sooooo dry from the gas!!!

Curry.
Worst decision of my life as I had awful vomiting in early labour. Still can't look at a curry the same way.