AIBU to think no one could possibly have the time or effort to stage a dress rehearsal labour?!!

[bakermum15]

Hi
I've just taken a look at my pregnancy app and this is the advice it has imparted for today's daily tip. (See pic) AIBU to think this is totally off the wall ?? At 38 weeks I can think of a lot of other (better) stuff to fill my time. Like eating cake, trying to remember my toes / what it was like to do anything quickly / why I walked into a room in the first place

That's ridiculous advice. As if hospitals need more traffic clogging up the car park

We didn't do it either time!

Went to the hospital for scans so had a rough idea of drive time, parking etc.

YANBU
Do you have to do pretend puffing of breaths etc as well? I mean how far do you go? Where do you draw the line?

I say this as the person who quickly stuffed some things into a bag and scribbled something which was supposed to pass for a birth plan which the mw didnt even look at the night before i was induced

Lost a bit!

So I thought that that was what most people did!

(Is someone now going to say that it's rare to have scans at the hospital that you give birth at!)?

I really like the part where you practice alerting your partner before staging a fake phone call

I'm sorry, that's hilarious!

How do you know you'll be walking when you're in labour?

Or how do you practice talking to the doctor? "Don't tell me to take another fucking paracetamol, and no I'm not having a bath, that means taking the Tens machine off?"

Thurlow that is hilarious!! Yes I remember being on all 4s in passenger footwell only for the MW to cheerily say "not ready yet love, go home and have a nap" ha ha ha. Whilst I probably brayed like a donkey

first you hage to practice two hours talking about whether it is a contraction or not. Is it 7 minutes since the start or the end? I need to wee maybe it's my waters? You're talking through your contraction now so we don't need to go to the hospital yet. Fuck off I'm going now I'm not giving birth in a traffic jam. put the dishwasher on quick I don't want the pots to start stinking. Quick, weren't we going to do a selfie of the last time it was just us two?

SHUT UP I SHOULD BE THERE ALREADY

That's bonkers! You could go into labour any time of the day and possibly have to take a different route. As long as you know where to go once you reach hospital I think you'll manage . We couldn't even get into the labour part directly because an ambulance had crashed there so had to take a longer way which was no fun with contractions!

That is bonkers.

That said, the hospital I would have gone to in labour wasn't the same one I had my scans at for DS (that hospital only had an MLU. I was either home birth or hospital if problems) (Diddle ) so we did actually plan finding where the maternity ward was on the massive site, where the nearest car park was, etc.

Bloody autocorrect. You get what I meant diddl

"That said, the hospital I would have gone to in labour wasn't the same one I had my scans at "

There's always one

My PFB arrived unexpectedly early so was a home birth followed by ambulance transfer to hospital.

No rehearsals could have prepared us for that outcome!

Those daily pregnancy apps really start to run out of things to say near the end of pregnancy don't they?

Is this app designed for the same people who have rehearsals for their wedding rehearsals, complete each time with a dinner for 1,001 of their closest friends and relatives?

Definitely scraping the barrel. What a crock of shit.

I love these apps! I think mine said similar!

Unless you have just landed on in the UK from abroad at 4 hours notice and at 39 weeks pregnant, you should probably be roughly aware of where your nearest hospital is, how to dial 999 and ask for an ambulance and what to put in a hospital bag. Hint: baby clothes

'Those daily pregnancy apps really start to run out of things to say near the end of pregnancy don't they?'

Yes, but I reckon 'Gosh, bet you're fat and uncomfortable today. How many texts have you had asking if baby is here today? Is baby here, or will I need to make up something for you to read tomorrow?' would be a bit too honest and rage inducing.

My midwife group suggested that we should do a practice run and we all said that we had visited said hospital for scans etc and looked on puzzled

How would one practice getting out of the car? I mean, normally I open the door... is it different if you're in labour?!

I'd say it's probably worth knowing whether you can park near the doors and then get the birth partner to go back to move the car once you're in, but that's about it. Sitting in hospital traffic - which is epic round here - does not appeal to me at all. Feet up with a slice of cake, on the other hand...

DD arrived before 38 weeks, so I'd have read that while in hospital recovering from the birth.

Ps remember you don't need to dial 999 if you go into labour at term and it's been a straightforward pregnancy. Phone the number on your notes!

These apps are so silly - when I was about 14 weeks mine suggested it was time to pack my hospital bag - errrr I bloody hope not