How did you go into labour ?

[Firstpregnancy2014]

I'm nowhere near that stage yet .. Just interested!
I'm 26 weeks with first baby, I'm working until the week before I'm due and everyone's said I'll be fine as first baby's are 'always late' so please tell me some stories !

I was 40+4 when I went into labour. Had been taking baths with Clary Sage Oil (not recommended before 40 weeks and often refused sale before then) for a day or two. My plug went and I knew this was different from BH. My contractions came quite suddenly and quite close together. They then started feeling like they were going away again so I got on my exercise ball and started bouncing about for ages. By 11pm I was in hospital at 3cm and then 17 hours after I lost my plug, at 10:56am at 40+5, my DD arrived.

Mine was 2 weeks early.

Waters went in the middle of the night, then low level contractions for 12 hours (not very painful), then full on contractions at home for 4 hours, got to hospital at 5cm dilated, fully dilated in another 2 hours and then pushed her out for 2 hours!!

I had a feeling she would be early however, just had this absolute certainty. Trust your instincts

My first (of 4) Labours was 6 hours,I was 2 weeks overdue and booked in to be induced Tuesday morning. I woke suddenly at 5 am Sunday with what I thought were my waters breaking but it was just her head engaging , she squashed my very full bladder. I started getting pains in my back about 11 pm and we got to the hospital about 1 am which was a 40 minute drive. I was examined and told that it was Braxton hicks and that I should go home, I refused convinced I was in labour, I had read a lot about "Active Labour" walking about belly dancing etc etc. so that is what I did until 5.30 am, I was examined and was 3 cm dilated . I was exhausted , I had been awake for over 24 hours and the DR said I needed some sleep so he ordered a pethidine injection, I accepted reluctantly but I was so tired and the pain in my back just never let up, I laid down on a bed, turned on my side and started to doze off, then a few minute later, all of a sudden HUGE CONTRACTION, I called for the nurse and told her I needed to push, she squealed at me , you can't push your only 3 cm! I screamed Get the Midwife I have to push, I was examined again and was fully dilated and effaced this had happened in a matter of 10 minutes after I laid down and relaxed, they rushed me to delivery, and they told me to put my hands behind my knees and push, i did but after the contraction stopped she slid back up, this went on for 15 minutes , I was floundering I'm really short having my hands behind my knees just made me roll about on my bum so with the next contraction I planted my feet on the side of the bed got some traction and pushed hard, I was able to keep pushing between the contractions and 25 minutes later my 6lb daughter came into the world just after 6.30 AM

My second , another girl,I had a lot of problems during my pregnancy and had actually miscarried her male twin at 5 months. I had my first contraction at 4PM exactly, we drove to the hospital and by the time I got into maternity it was just past 5PM. My contractions were close together and really hard, I got straight in a hot shower to ease the pain in my back and the midwife pulled me out after an hour to examine me, she said my cervix pulled away from her fingers and just disappeared, I wanted to get back in the shower, NO it's straight to the delivery room for you, so in I went, and then I experienced what they call "transition" for the first and only time. I felt awful, my contractions stopped I felt dizzy and vomited, it was like bad car sickness. Then the pushing contractions started I was pushing hard and MW says I can see the head crowning and I'm like just get it out of me, then MW says stop pushing stop pushing the cord is around the baby's neck, she gets in there to unhook it and the bag of waters explodes all over her, the nurse and the wall behind them, The baby had gotten slung up on the cord, it wasn't around her neck, when I had been pushing it was the water bag that had come down, anyway my 6lb 2oz little girl entered the world exactly 3 hours after my first contraction.

My 3rd a boy. I had tested strep b positive during my last trimester so i had to have an IV antibiotic during the first stages of labour to make sure I did not infect him during delivery. I had a show about 7 on Saturday morning when I went to the loo so I figured I would go into labour sometime in the next day or so. I rang the hospital and they said to come in now so I got organised and we arrived at the Hospital about 8:30 am. It took an hour to find an anesthesiologist to do the IV so at 9.30 I asked if I could have a warm bath, there was no bath just a shower in our house and I missed warm baths, they said yes because there was no one waiting for a maternity suite, so i jumped in and had a wonderful warm bath, after an hour floating in the warm water my back had begun to hurt so I got out, well as soon as my feet hit the floor I had a doozy of a contraction, and then another one,then a pushing contraction, I said to the nurse I gotta push she says Bullshit she was so surprised, she literally had to carry me to the bed as another huge wave hit me, she called the midwife who called my DR,he said he wanted 20-30 minutes notice, I called for my partner who had gone across the road to get a burger for brunch, he was sitting on a seat outside the shop and the nurse hung out a window screaming for him to come back, so he ran back, meanwhile I had been having wave after wave of immense contractions hit me, the pain was all in my back and MY THIGHS i was having contractions in the tops of my legs, I was pushing when my partner got there just as his head was crowning, one more push and my DR arrived as his shoulders were slipping out. My entire labour 7 contractions five of them pushing ones had taken only 20 minutes, my 8lb 9 oz son literally fell out.

My fourth, my 3rd girl and last was born on Sunday 2 weeks early, I had willed myself into early labour because I did not want to spend christmas in hospital, On a Sunday morning just after 1 AM I got up to go to the loo and felt that all too familiar pain in my back, I got a hot water bottle and went back to bed and I was able to go back to sleep. i got up at 10 and told my partner to call his sister to babysit as we were off to the hospital, we arrived at 10:30 am and I sat in the waiting area while they prepared a delivery room for me, the first thing I did was ask for a warm bath and of course it was a yes so in I got, and as usual what chased me out was the return of the awful pain in my back, the midwife arrived at 11:30 am and asked for me to get out so she could examine me, have you had any contractions yet? No , well what makes you think you are in labour? A little pain in my back does, so she checks me, your 7 cm, she is surprised, I'm not. I still have not had a contraction, she bustles about and then goes to get a nurse when she gets back she says as a joke you have 15 minutes to finish dilating and 12 minutes to push this baby out, and that is exactly what happened, the first contraction hit me like a bulldozer at 11:45 AM and my last little bundle of joy came into the world after a 45 minute labour on the 12/12/ at 12:12 PM weighing 6 Lb 12 Oz.
I spoke to my Doctor about the reason is that I had basically pain free first stage labours except for the pain in my back, and even during labour I had no abdominal pain and the contractions seemed to be in my back and thighs for the most part, he said something about pain transference and for me, being warm and completely relaxed was the way to go, I recommend a warm bath for labour as the best thing.

36w5d. I woke at around 6.am with a weird twangy twinge somewhere around my cervix like someone snapped an elastic band up there. I got up to go to the loo and my waters gushed all down the hallway. I sat on the loo for a moment, still gushing, and then woke up, realised what was happening, said "oh" shoved a towel between my legs ans waddled back to the bedroom to wake dh. Got to the hospital by 7am ish, spent the day wandering around or being monitored with mild contractions. By the evening baby's heart rate was going down as the contractions got stronger. It's a bit blurry from then on because after an entonox tutorial from dh I was mostly high as a kite. I ended up having an emcs at 11.20 that night. True knot in the cord and one lucky little boy. Missed my natural birth but got my live son.