Had been due the 10th October, but come the 16th I was fed up and getting resigned to membrane sweep and then induction. However, I woke up at 12.30am 17th Oct with a contration so got up and read a book. By 3.15am they were 5 mins apart so woke dp up. Called my mum at 4 to get her to come and look after dd, she took ages getting a taxi and only arrived at 5am by which time they were every 2 mins.
Dp drove straight to hospital where I had to virtually crawl to the labour ward, then got left in reception in front of lots of people in advanced labour [only funny in retrospect!]. Got admitted at 5.45 by which time I was 9cm dilated and contractions were every 90 seconds. Demanded an epidural but they managed to stall, and dd2 Jaya, was born at 6.55am on just gas and air. Dp was absolutely fantastic [far better than the midwife!]
And we were home by lunch time