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?

37 weeks. Spontaneous labour by waters breaking. She was born in a water pool 8lbs4 after a 3 hour labour

40 + 2hours!

DC1 40+2 but waters had gone on due date.
DC2 37+2. Went on maternity on the Thursday, was in labour by Saturday.

42+2 with an induction

@billy I went in to labour at work. Waters broke in front of very important customer. Hospital 35 miles away and gave birth holding colleagues hand 😂

38+2 for DC1 ended up emergency c section, 38&3 for DC2 - had ELCS planned for 39 weeks but he decided to come before that.

DC1: 40+0 - EMCS after failed induction which began on 39+2

DC2: 38+5 - ELCS

41+2 days.

Sweep, baby back to back, in to birth centre, sent home, back in and up to labour ward with high blood pressure, epidural, induction, whipped to theatre, spinal, episiotomy, forceps, huge blood loss, safe delivery of DS, blood transfusions, scar that took ages to heal.

You did ask.

But don't worry OP; most women have it easier than me! ...and I'd still do it again tomorrow....

40 weeks exactly.

DD1 - 40+5
DD2 - 42 looooooooong ass weeks!!!

Thankfully both spontaneous labours and relatively straight forward births!

DC1 - 40+3 elective c section as was breech and big. DC2 - 40+1 waters broke on due date and they came 25 hours.

34+5 and 35+1, appears i dont have full term pregnancies!

41+1, 41+1

Near identical pregnancies too.

Second labour was much nicer too.

43, and a 3 day labour before crash c-section. DD still allergic to punctuality 15 years on.

42+1.

I was induced at 41+5 but a failed induction led to emergency C-section at 42+1.

33 weeks
40 weeks

39+2 and 37+2 (only just, born early hours).

33+6, induced due to pre-eclampsia, ended up emergency section. 4lb 5oz, 1 week in SCBU and a brilliant toddler now.
No 2 still cooking, hoping I get a bit further this time

DS1 - 39+3, no complications, felt the first twinges mid morning on a Saturday and gave birth at 1:15am the next day after a couple of hours in hospital. He was 7lb 8oz.

DS2 - 37+2, no complications but he was back to back initially and it was quite sore for hours (first twinges at 5:30pm, pointless contractions for the next seven hours) without much happening. Then he suddenly turned and my contractions went like crazy and he was born less than an hour later I was so shocked at how fast he shot out that the first thing I said to the midwife was 'Bloody hell!' He was 6lb 9oz and quite jaundiced so we were in hospital for a few days but he was totally fine apart from that.

41 weeks.

35 weeks, turned up at hospital 9.5cm dilated...

41+4 🙈. He needed to be evicted via emergency c section in the end

39 +4 with first, 42 with second

41+1 both times!

42+6 they wouldn’t allow it now apparently