To ask how many weeks you were when you gave birth?

[LaBelleSauvage]

Gratuitous posting for traffic, sorry! I'm 30 weeks pregnant with my first and curious to hear stories about all of Mumsnet's birthing stories!

Were you bang on time? Late? Super early? Anyone's water break while speaking at a conference or at a family dinner? How was the labour? Any complications? ..were you prepared and how are your DCs now?

DD - 41+5 8.8lbs natural birth only gas and air

DS - on due date 7.4lbs natural birth but back to back only gas and air

All born exactly 3 weeks early to the day!
We are an impatient bunch

DC1 @39+2
DC2 @37+4

Both came on their own time.

40+2
24
36

41+4 with both of mine. Must be my natural gestational period I reckon.
Would have been very surprised if I'd had a third and they'd appeared sooner.

36
39
38
38
Emergency section followed by 3 planned sections. T'was a hard road!

First (and only) baby, spontaneous preterm rupture of membranes at 32w5d. Born at 32w6d. Intensive care for 3 days and 18 days in SCBU. Discharged at 3 weeks old, exclusively breastfeeding 4 hourly.
Not able to tell me why my waters broke early, nothing wrong with baby or me but suspect stress and anxiety were a factor (unrelated to pregnancy). Now 10 years old and in last year of primary school ❤️

40 SVD
40 SVD
38( planned section)

39+6 and 40

42 + 2 (induced and she took ages after)
Then
42

First 31w 3ds and second 39w 1 day. I was in very slow Labour with my first a boy about 3 days. My waters didn't break until I actually gave birth. My second was really quick my waters broke at 2 am with no contractions or sign of Labour before then working half an hour contractions had started and were 5 mins apart and regular. I gave birth about 3 hours after my waters broke.

DS - 6lb 5oz, waters broke at 37+3 whilst at a friends house. 69 hour labour followed by inducement x3 then an ECS and 10 days in NICU due to infection. Turned out I also had the same infection & basically my placenta got the flu!! Very unusual so I was told! Very stressful and worrying first baby!

DD - really wanted a VBAC but due to diabetes they didn't want me to go past my due date. But due to Royal Wedding (William & Kate) & the extra bank holiday, delivered at 40+4 by elective CS. Not a chance my DD was planning on coming out no matter how many times they tried to break my waters!! She was much bigger than my DS at 8lb 14ozs!

38+5. Waters accidentally broken by a sweep, he was born 7 hours later.

DS 1 41 weeks
DD1 39+ 1
DS2 39+2

All inductions

How many weeks? All of them. All the weeks. 43.5 weeks. And they said baby would be small so no need to induce. Bastards.

earliest was 39 weeks. Latest was 44.5 weeks (31 days overdue).

DS 35 weeks, he was fine stayed with me in the ward and discharged the next day.
DD1 and 2 both induced at 37 weeks.

42 + 3 failed induction, luckily I went Into labour naturally that night and avoided my forced/recommended c-section.

41w+5d 7lb 13oz DD
39w 6lb 2OZ DD
35w+4d 9lb 4OZ DS
40w exactly 10LB DS

40+5

@notquiteruralbliss 44.5 weeks! that must have been the longest 4 weeks, how come you went so overdue if you don’t mind me asking? I was told inductions happen after 12 days of being over.

40,40,40.
One CS, one back to back SVD with a failed attempt at internal rotation, one SVD with a broken clavicle and brain damage.
Two at 8lb6oz, one at 9lb.
At least they were on time.

Induced at 42 weeks.

43+6, 39, 42, 40, 34

I was 39+4 emergency c section
My sister had her daughter at 26+6 also by emergency c section
( both for different reasons but both involved the placenta)