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Signs of labour with 2nd baby?

518 replies

mummyjanine · 28/01/2014 12:54

Did you have any signs leading up to labour 2nd time round and if so what?

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Izzyalex · 25/02/2014 08:08

Good work justcallmebaldrick!!!
I'm obviously not being emotional enough!!!

HamAlive · 25/02/2014 08:59

Pasta snap, I don't remember feeling DS engage at all, I just took the mw's word for it. This time is entirely different!

I will be gutted if last week's mw has told me wrong and I can't have a sweep on Thurs. I always thought I'd turn one down but I'm now thinking it would be a bad thing. Baldrick did she say if anything was happening down there?

This is like waiting for Christmas as a kid!

PastaandCheese · 25/02/2014 09:03

It's much worse than Christmas! At least you know when Christmas is going to be!

Springbells · 25/02/2014 14:05

Can I join the fun symptom spotting please? This is bloody worse than the 2ww! Been watching this thread for a few days, thinking I won't post cos surely 2nd babies come early. Pah... Been loosing my mucus plug for 10 days, ridiculously strong and now crampy Braxton hicks (usually when just want to be sleeping! ) and baby sitting so low I'm sure it's down round my knees if I could see them so it looks like I'm here for uthe long haul!

PastaandCheese · 25/02/2014 16:06

Welcome springbells. If this were a study I think we'd be fast approaching the point where we could conclude that seconds are not always early! It is all very unfair. I've been pregnant for 18 months now...... I deserve my PSB.

It is also the case that there are two due dates the second time..... The real one and then the date your first was born. I am just about to pass the first and then have three days until I hit the second.

With this in mind I have made a momentous decision....l am going to wean myself off symptom spotting. It's going to be hard but I think it would be good for me. I have emailed DH (who has had 'updates' all week Blush) and asked him to shoot me if I informed him ever again that I have niggles, mild cramps, have lost more mucus, am leaking milk, have had an upset tummy or have a backache that can't merely be attributed to carting a two year old and a 40 week foetus around.

I have further informed him I am now only interested in my waters breaking, actual contractions I can't talk through or bloody mucus at an absolute stretch.

He doesn't think I can do it but I've been living with my resolve since this morning and rather than wandering around with no purpose like a caged animal I have been for lunch with a friend, cleaned the house and had a really nice nap as it is a DD nursery day.

I'm off to make curry for dinner now because I didn't promise I wouldn't still try and bring it on!

Hope katiechoochoo is doing ok. She must have her little big by now I think?

PastaandCheese · 25/02/2014 16:08

Ps I don't expect anyone to join me. I shall continue to enthusiastically respond to anyone else's symptoms and wave my Pom poms.

Izzyalex · 25/02/2014 16:15

Welcome to the misery and frustration springbells when is your due date?
Mine is today and nothing doing grrr

Izzyalex · 25/02/2014 16:19

Hey pasta I like your resolve!! Stay strong xx

OnTheRunAndUpTheDuff · 25/02/2014 17:32

pasta I completely agree about the two due dates second time round. I passed the date ds was born on Saturday, and it was miserable. I actually feel a lot calmer now though.

I am fully prepared for this one to go to 42 weeks, just to piss me off.

Izzyalex · 25/02/2014 18:41

Had 3 separate emails today from things I have signed up to congratulating me on reaching my due date and giving me advice on looking after a newborn - FFS!!!

My DD1 was 10 days overdue so not reached my 2nd date yet Sad

PastaandCheese · 25/02/2014 18:57

If I think hard I actually only know a handful of people who had early babies. The vast majority of people I know had their babies between 40 and 41.5 ish weeks regardless of what baby number it was.

Why on earth I thought there may be some truth in being a bit early with a second I shall never know!

PassthePercyPigs · 25/02/2014 19:50

Hi all, can I join? Due on Thursday and not a single symptom to report - beyond frustrating. My DD had to be induced and was finally born at 42+1 so am grimly resigned to the fact that I seem not to be someone who goes into labour naturally!

I'm having acupuncture tomorrow and will start taking homeopathic remedies to see if they help to get things going and have a sweep booked for next Thurs.

So desperate for the wait to be over - feels like I've been pregant for about 2 years!

Good luck all x

Springbells · 25/02/2014 21:21

pasta too true on the two dates... My first was here by now, think I was so convinced this on would be earlier I seem to forget I'm still only (hah!) 38+3. I love your plan, and would def do it, but having had no symptoms at all tonight I am, of course, convinced it will all kick off in the early hours... See? Lost the plot.... Grin

izzy due 8th march! So still dont even really qualify to be symptom spotting that much!

PastaandCheese · 25/02/2014 22:18

Hello passthepercypigs 42+1. I take my hat off to you. You poor thing.

I'm trying reflexology which is all very pleasant and is helping with my new found serene, non symptom spotting state.

springbells my friend had exactly the same experience. Her DD born at exactly 37 weeks and then 41 weeks with her DS. The last four weeks were even harder for her than all other heavily pregnant women as she had every reason to think her DS would be early too. Hopefully your baby will turn up soon.

OnTheRunAndUpTheDuff · 26/02/2014 02:54

Hey everyone,

Labour started very suddenly at 7pm this evening, and by 10 I was holding my new little ball of squidge, born at home in the water :)

It was fast and intense - I guess those two weeks of bh contractions were doing something after all!

Now looking forward to ds1 coming home tomorrow to meet his new baby brother.

Good luck to everyone still waiting - hope you sneeze those babies out x

PastaandCheese · 26/02/2014 07:02

Aaah congratulations ontherunanduptheduff ThanksThanksThanksThanks

That sounds like quiet an experience. 3 hours is amazing!

Enjoy your new baby. X

PassthePercyPigs · 26/02/2014 07:46

Congratulations ontherunanduptheduff - what an amazing experience!
Thanks

PastaandCheese · 26/02/2014 07:50

quite an experience of course!

JustCallMeBaldrick · 26/02/2014 09:47

Congratulations on the run, that sounds fantastic!
Well, my sweep on Monday did nothing, but baby wasn't very active afterwards, with no 3am party as usual, so I went in to be monitored and all was well, and they did me another one, which has produced loads of pant snot, but nothing else.
I've got another appt on Thursday for monitoring and yet another sweep, so we'll see what happens then.
I had a Bishop's score of 6 yesterday, which I think is good?!

Izzyalex · 26/02/2014 10:03

Congratulations ontherun enjoy your lovely new baby snuggles xxxxx
Sounds like a breeze of a labour - hope the rest of us are as lucky.

justcallmebaldrick sounds frustrating situation for you, interventions with no results, hopefully it will all get moving today to prevent more intervention!

pasta I envy your serene ness - keep it up hun!

I was awake at midnight with mild pains across belly, accompanied by hot sweats and nausea and feeling wide awake so thought it was time. Even told DP who got really excited (it's his first) but then I woke up at 6am - nothing Sad
Did get some mucus this morning which is a first for me, didn't happen with DD1 and feeling cramps and bit tense across the belly all morning so far so I am truly hoping this is the start?!

Xx

HamAlive · 26/02/2014 10:23

Wow ontherun ! Congratulations! Fantastic news and what a birth.

I passed my second date a week ago, DS born at 39+1. I am 40 weeks today. GET OUT BABY!

I should really try to channel my inner pasta. Already had a text from mum this morning.

Sounds promising Izzy, hope it is!

frogslegs35 · 26/02/2014 12:55

Hi all, I've been lurking for a few weeks but I have a confession to make

I'm not pregnant Blush TTC though and can promise I'm not a freaky pregnant lady stalker :)

I've got 3 Dc already and remember the awful waiting game. Ds1 came 4 days early, Ds2 3 days late, it was Ds3 who needed to be evicted.

Anyway, I just want to say congrats to all who've delivered already and good luck, sending my best wishes with lots of labour vibes and sneezy fast births to those still waiting. Xx

Back to lurkdom :)

PastaandCheese · 26/02/2014 13:17

Bishops Score of 6 sounds great justcallmebaldrick surely you're on your way now?

izzy and ham my serenity took a knock when DD had a tantrum and refused to walk to the car after her toddler dance class. She actually lay in a shop door screaming that I wasn't her mummy at one point. I ended up carrying her whilst she thrashed about and kicked me in the bump.

I basically looked like a child abuser to all the people staring. Definitely a walk of shame.

That said the no symptom spotting is working out great as a/ I can't fantasise that the kick in the bump will get things started and b/ when people start with the 'any signs' nonsense I just cut them straight off with 'I've decided not to do that. It'll come when it comes' and change the subject!

frogslegs you just have had a few wry chuckles to yourself as most of us have been forced to face the fact that seconds coming sooner is just a cruel lie fed to desperate women who will believe anything.

Izzyalex · 26/02/2014 15:23

Thanks for the best wishes frogslegs - it's not stalker-ish it just sounds to me like you're a lovely person!!

pasta I remember the tanting days with my DD1 (8 now and tanting in an entirely different way!) - f@ck what the passers-by thought!M

Xx

Izzyalex · 26/02/2014 15:25

Ps can I admit to a creme egg fetish? Onto #2 today and demolished a 12 pack in 3 days over weekend Blush

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