I knew labour was imminent when.....

[Bradyboo]

I am very irritable, mucus discharge increased as have BHs so am thinking and hoping that labour is imminent. Did anyone else have signs that they were shortly going into labour?

My maternity jeans fell apart, and I emptied the laundry basket for the first time in three years.

Good luck!

They induced me at 42 weeks....

The day that my obstetrician and I had decided on came and DH drove me to the hospital for my elective section

I had a massive pooing session!

I had mild contractions for 48hrs and a bloody show, they still sent me home from hospital, got back there a few hours later with less then an hour to spare before delivery.

The painter had finished painting the windows after 3 weeks of work and I turned to my husband and said "Well now the painter's gone, I guess the baby will arrive".

A show, waters breaking. Baby no.2 was here a day later.

Congratulations, you'll soon meet a delicious new baby!

Increased BH, lots more back ache, horrendous mood swings...

My maternity leave started, 3 weeks before my due date - didn't even have one day off to myself!!

Also I had a nice nap thinking how maybe labour wouldn't be so bad after all so I finally felt a bit chilled about it all, and within an hour of waking up, my waters went and the rest was history..

Woke up with squeezing pains. They got progressively more painful within an hour or so. I had had a sweep though which the doctor said had clearly been very successful so was expecting it.

Good luck Bradyboo.

I had no warning at all, just felt really tired that day and got annoyed with myself because I had loads of housework to do and couldn't motivate myself to do it! Went to bed that night and my waters suddenly popped and ds was born 4 hours later

Had period like cramps for several days beforehand. The day I went into labour I had really crampy pains for a while in the middle of the night, but then had the best night's sleep I'd had in a while, so...? Later that day my contractions started, although for a while I thought they were braxton hicks even though they felt a bit different (for me they were a cross between bh and period cramps) and were every 5 minutes, like clockwork!

When I found myself manically ironing table napkins (and haven't used them since!)

I could barely walk!! My latent phase beforehand (when I first went into hospital) was nothing! I thought that was it, I was sent home with painkillers. I returned the following night and the midwife smiled as she saw me grimacing down the corridor and said..."Ah yes, now this looks like we're on!".

my nesting reached a peak - embroidering our initials on the duvet in case they got lost at the cleaners.
yes so bored, I had to have the baby then...!

Had a sweep at 8 days over and I was already 3cm dilated. No symptoms whatsoever. First contraction 10 hours later.

I was just crouching down to put a new toothbrush in my hospital bag (Mum having insisted that I wouldn't have time to grab mine from the bathroom), felt a distinctive little "pop" and left a pool of amniotic fluid on my bedroom floor...

With DS1 a stork (well actually it was a heron) flew over our house, waters broke early net morning

Both times it was when I just couldn't sit still watching a film. First time - Philadelphia Story, second time - Dirty Dancing .

had no idea as i had no pain - my waters broke but still no contractions until about half an hour before DC born!! iknow i was very lucky.....

Waters went pop at one in the morning (four days early thanks to eating a pineapple after dinner!)

No idea .... got to hospital 2 hours before apologising it was probably false alarm

nesting like mad- i was going round touching up paintwork when my waters went. also got tearful a couple of hours before, for no real reason. Baby born 31hrs after waters broke.

Had a very energectic day, had booked haircut, organised to see a couple of new BF mums who needed advice - all for the next day. I went into to be monitored that evening- was sent home with a see you in 2 weeks and 2 hours later I was back and had DD within minutes of arriving.