To ask if you have given birth unexpectedly at home by yourself

[Mopmum35]

As the title says, have any of you experienced giving birth at home quickly without much warning? just being noisy 🙈

Not me, but my best friends sister didn’t know She was pregnant. She didn’t look pregnant to be fair but after 12 hours of what we she thought was D&V, she gave birth to her daughter sat on the toilet. She’s already called an ambulance as the pain was so severe she thought perhaps her appendix may have burst. They arrived to her sat on the bathroom floor with her new baby! She’ll shocked but ok!

Happened to a friend of mine; baby plopped out while she was on the toilet. My second labour was under two hours start to finish, most of that time spent in the car, and it was fucking terrifying and the most fucking painful thing you can imagine. No let off between contractions is nothing to be envious of.

Mine would have been if my friend weren’t round mine about to do my nails for me and swifted me off to hospital!!

Gosh, imagine all that worrying and anxiety about giving birth if it was your first time, and all the plans about what drugs you will take , just to have it so quickly and suddenly, away from a hospital, alone. Omg.
Hrtft, I'm just imagining.

I’ve had 2! DS was born on route to hospital in the back of the car, labour was 30 minutes and we were both cold and shocked but fine. We had a planned home birth for DS2 then planned the same for DD. She didn’t want to wait for the midwife to arrive and DH delivered her after a 20 minute labour. Hers was the loveliest delivery of them all, the midwifes didn’t arrive for 40 minutes after her birth and DH and I just lay with DD. It was dark, the fire was on and the boys still asleep and I’ll never forget how content and peaceful I felt for that wee bit of time!

I had an unexpected home birth. Contractions started around 7.30pm and were long and intense from the start. Rang the hospital about an hour plus into it who were very patronising and told me to stay at home. Waters went shortly after that and 10 minutes later she was born delivered by OH! No medical personnel whatsoever.

I did with my second child.
My water went at 10.30 at night. My mum came over to look after our son. We went in to the hospital to get checked but the midwife sent me home, despite my insistence that I was in labour. She was incredibly patronising and refused to examine me again. We drove the 5 mins home and I figured we’d be back in an hour or so. As I got home I felt the urge to push. It wasn’t that painful throughout as the waters had gone. 10 mins later my mum delivered her in the bathroom! 3 hours from waters going.

With my 3rd child in early gave birth in triage. It was 30 mins from start to finish! They examined me and said I was 3cm but 15 minutes later I was pushing and he was born! Incredibly painful contractions with no real gap. Waters went as I was pushing.

Much preferred my slower first labour!

Yes with my youngest. I was 10 days overdue. I had a few niggly pains. Phoned my ex (recently separated) told him not to rush over. He arrived 40 mins later after getting the kids ready. But by the time he arrived I realised we weren't going to make it to the hospital. Alerted the midwife and called a 999. They talked my ex through the delivery and ds was born 10 mins before the ambulance arrived. The midwife arrived a couple of minutes after them.

Another planned homebirth, waters went and called the hospital, midwife called back about 15 mins later when I was having my 1st contraction and I said she better get here quickly. I reached down and delivered him 10 mins after that. DH called 999 (never understood why, baby and I were both fine) and paramedics arrived about 20 mins later, midwife was another half hour!

I would have had an unexpected home birth if I hadn't been in hospital overnight already. DS2 is my third and when I was scanned to check growth late into pregnancy they decided his growth had slowed and they wanted to induce me. DH and I went in to hospital, they gave me a slow acting pessary as I'd had a sweep the day before and my cervix was really far back with no signs of labour at all. Midwives assured us that things would work slowly overnight and I would probably need another pessary the next day. DH went home, I felt a couple of niggles but nothing major. Tried to go to sleep.
2am I woke up and had back to back huge contractions, baby was born 2:36am! My previous two labours had been quick (4hours and 3hours) but I hadn't expected that.
The only unfortunate thing was that DH didn't make it back to hospital in time as we live about 45mins away. However, instinct did somewhat take over and I remember feeling determined that I would be ok and had to manage this without him.
I agree with previous posters about quick labour though. I found my four hour labour so much easier as there were short breaks between contractions for me to 'gather myself.' This time the pain was really scary and constant. He's wonderful though (four months old now) so it was all worth it 😊

i delivered my friend’s baby on the kitchen floor. she’d been having pains but thought they were just braxton hicks, we were sat having a cuppa in the kitchen when she suddenly felt the need to push. whipped her bottoms off and the head was there 🙈 my son was on the phone with 999 giving me instructions. very scary but all went well luckily. my aunt also had her baby at home on the sofa... and called the baby sofia 😂

Oh I just remembered someone else, a family member of my DH. Born at 26 weeks on the toilet. Only the quick thinking of the Gran wrapping the baby in tinfoil saved her.

Not at home. But DS1 was born 10 minutes after I got to the hospital. Labour was 40 minutes all told.
DS2 was born in the reception of the hospital.
DD was born in the carpark outside.

Interestingly enough DS1's DD2 was almost born in the same carpark. But DDIL made it to first room outside the lift

Yeah. He's just gone to bed. Biggest shit I ever did.

Wasn't all plain sailing, though. Retained placenta and PPH. Not fun.

I had my second at 38 weeks on my living room floor at around 5am!
Luckily the paramedics arrived a few minutes before DS did and took us to hospital.

Some times I remember and think about how lucky we were that nothing went wrong, it was such a scary experience.

Yes, my son was born what I was on the loo, on my own, about 15 minutes after the midwife had left my house having examined me and declaring that my labour had stalled.... It was very traumatic and I tore badly, also my son was blue with the cord wrapped around his neck. All OK now though.

DNeice was born in a layby on the A19. BIL delivered her while the man from the burger van was on the phone to the hospital talking him through it. DSis said it was very surreal afterwards, sitting there calmy eating a bacon butty, snuggled up in the back of the car with a baby, waiting for the ambulance to come.

I did although my OH was there and delivered my baby.
I'd had on and off pains all day but put them down to Braxton hicks/ slow labour as I was a couple of weeks early. I'd been out shopping and carried my DD to nursery that day. By the time I was due to pick her up 4 hours later I was in bed with my new baby drinking a cup of tea that I'd made myself before I delivered. Still warm.
It was absolutely terrifying at the time, I didn't really think I was giving birth until my OH said to the 999 handler that he could see the head. They went from saying I was not an emergency to suddenly prioritising me. They arrived about 15 minutes after birth, the midwife about half an hour after that.
I was telling my mum in the last stage that I really needed a poo but the most painful poo I'd ever had. And would the paramedics be able to give me an epidural as I couldn't think of anything other than that to put me out of my misery. It turned out that he was back to back just to add to the horror.

Yes...first child was 10 days over, 3 day ‘slow labour’ and 4 hours of pushing so absolutely didn’t think I was capable of a quick delivery.
1 day before DD2 was born I thought I had trapped wind. Then the pain settled into a rhythm which I identified as contractions but not particularly close together (very different to DS1 so not immediately obvious). Within 2 hours waters broke. My husband was just putting the bags in the car to go to the hospital when I had the urge to push. He called 999, but DD2 arrived minutes later with him being guided through the delivery by emergency services. Ambulance arrived not long after that. Honestly one of the best experiences of my life...not so much for my still traumatised DH!!

Sorry, should say 1 day before DD2 was due not born

lol at the bacon butty story, hope he didn't charge her for it!

Yes I did. I was getting ready to go to the hospital and DP quickly nipped to the loo. I was sitting on the floor with our friend who had been round that day and was going to stay with older DS. I stood up ready to go and knew that was it. DD basically just popped out, caught very quickly by friend as DP came out of the toilet to only just see the birth.

Was quite surreal but lovely really.

Just nosy or just a journalist?
You have to pay for journo access to members' opinions/experiences you know.

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This.

Clearly an OP by a journalist. Still an entertaining read. Pretty sure I know one of the PP in real life so be careful when telling your stories as the 'best' ones are going to end up in print....

Wow some really amazing births! Some bloody terrifying but absolutely amazing... it super scary giving birth anyway but when it happens super quickly and especially when there is no one around its terrifying. A big clap to all you ladies and to the daddies and friends and neighbours who delivered baby

So @DarrellMakepeace I am no journalist
I gave birth to my youngest dd at home by myself, I delivered her myself. I had my 13 month old with me at the time ( in her travel cot) I was just wondering how it went for other mothers that have been through the same thing and just to post really about it, to be fair it's a bloody amazing thing to do! Giving birth is amazing in its self but at home....by yourself.... with no midwife..I just thought it would be nice for some of us to share. That's all

@TheArtfulScreamer1 gosh must of been awful for you and baby, my first was similar but forceps not emcs.