how many peoples labour started with this - sorry if tmi!!!

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With my labour with ds, the first thing I remember, and oddly the clearest, was my bowels emptying and then contractions started (during Eastenders )

How many other people had this?

Trix - 1st time i did a whole bottle and went into labour 4 hours later.
2nd time I did half a bottle in the morning and nothing all day so did the 2nd half in the evening and went into labour about 4 gours later again.
Deffo works that stuff!

Yep, diarrhoea with DD1, big no2 with DD2, then staight into 5 mins apart contractions ! SO glad to have got it all out

My waters broke, then after about an hour the contractions started 3 minutes apart. To make matters worse between each contraction I had the squits so had no time to prepare for the next one. This went on for about 6 hours before I finally said enough and asked for an epidural. The bummer of it all was that I had to have an emergency CS in the end. Still got a BEAUTIFUL baby out of it!!

told the runs was a sign of impending labour.

Ive had the runs this evening which is unusual for me, ive not eaten anything to bring it on so I wonder could this be a sign? Or is it just wishfull thinking.

Sorry for tmi but im desperate for labour to start.

Big clear out (from both ends) kicked it all of for me !
Probably all the bloody pineapple, raspberry leaf tea and curry I had been troughing in a vain attempt to get things going!

No diarrhoea, no vomiting (otherwise I would never have done it 4 times) and no pooing during labour either. I sound like Little Miss Pure! can I redeem myself in your eyes by saying I definitely remember weeing during one contraction? It embarrassed dh no end, but didn't bother me!

waters broke whilst reading Harry Potter at 1am in the morning, got to hospital, no contractions until they gave me a sweep. Only mild to start with, then back ache, then had the trots a bit. Then, violently sicked up all my fish and chips (never had them since) for about 20 mins, followed by relentless contractions. 12hrs later a dd was born.

With my first I didn't have the runs but did do pelet type poos (tmi!) during pushing, I also vomited during labour but only once. With my second I didn't poo before or during, wasn't sick either (it was only 40 mins from start to finish) but I did get the shakes.

yep, with both of mine. with the second, i had a few false alarms but as soon as i was contracting and having the trotts i knew he was on his way