What were you doing when you went into labour?

[eandz13]

Being induced tomorrow. Today is my final day to attempt everything I possibly can in a single day to put myself in spontaneous labour (I'm only 39 weeks, so I don't have the highest hopes, my others came at 40!)

What were you doing the day you went in labour? Had you done anything immediately beforehand? Do you think anything you'd done that day may have kickstarted something?

Wishful thinker here I'll try just about anything - except anything that will just give me the squits (by that I mean castor oil!)

@Crazydoglady123 your waters bulging sounds really promising!! Time is hopefully on your side if your induction is for Friday... best wishes and I hope you go spontaneously 🤞 also, make sure to get some quality rest between bouncing on the ball!! Xx

No luck for me unfortunately! Off to have my own waters introduced to the dreaded amnihook shortly ah well, at least I'll be in the hospital, my last 2 births were extremely fast, so there's a silver lining here I suppose!

Had been at a wedding the night before and was mid way through eating a curry when my waters went POP really loudly and I thought what the hell was that?!!!

We were only having curry because it was my ex birthday not to make labour come on. I was booked for a section a week later so I didn't want to have her before that!

I’d gone in with my then partner to the local Youth Theatre we tutored at (& I worked at as a tech) as we knew I was being induced the next day (was 42+2 I think!). Went to the loo with a clump of mates, chatting away, and I had a wee…and couldn’t stop!

Went into hospital that night, tried a pessary induction in the morning which failed, had a drip induction with epidural in the afternoon & son popped out in the evening!

With my daughter; I was asleep & at 5am (after a rather raunchy dream) woke up to a gushing waterfall! My husband has never forgiven me for killing his V shaped pillow I’d popped between my legs for comfort that night lol.

1. Going to bed (after a day of baby clothes shopping, then doing a big stock up food shop - I wasn't expecting it to happen then)
2. At the hospital (ELCS!)

1. laying in bed about to go to sleep.
2. sleeping, it woke me up.

First one, started getting very mild contractions in the car park after a sweep.
The second, I was asleep and left dp to sleep until the very last minute. That was a very quick labour.
The third, I was in the house watching TV. My mum was here.
No waters broke anywhere (always had to have them broken in the hospital by the midwife), no rushing around paniking. All very boring 🤣

1st labour - sleeping
2nd labour - induced, so tired and grumpy in hospital antenatal ward
3rd labour - at toddler group tea with friends. I then drove myself home.

DD watching casualty
DS running a psychiatric ward on a late shift

I’d been walking the dogs for about 3 miles the night before, then went for sushi with some friends.

On the day I had a sweep, and then went into the office to tidy a few things up. Waters broke in the car as I was leaving. 4 hours later DS1 arrived.

DS2 I had done some hula hooping at the St Patrick’s Day Gaelic football earlier that day, started sporadic contractions later that afternoon, established labor by 11pm, DS2 arrived at 6am.

First one - it was a Friday morning and I was watching This Morning
Second one - was Christmas Eve and I was eating Chinese takeaway
Third one - I was sleeping (4am)

Baby will make an appearance when they are good and ready lol.
Good luck and congratulations in advance 🥰🥰

Watching Andy Murray in his Wimbledon final. Saw the first point. That's it.

When DS was born everyone kept asking me if I was going to call him Andy

I was in bed trying to sleep. Had just been to the toilet but was turning over when I felt like I had maybe peed a little. Strange I thought so I got up for toilet tried to pee again nothing coming apart from a drip, drip, drip. So my waters had broken just before midnight. I was 37+4. Contractions started thick and fast 10mins later. That day I had been out for lunch with a friend and we had such a laugh, she claims the humour put me in labour, gave me the oxytocins I needed 😂 I had been chasing 2yr old around soft play the day before that. She kept getting shy in and I had to rescue her 🙈

I tried everything to get my first baby out. They said I was very favourable and cervix was soft etc. I had sex, went a long walk, ate spicy food, ate pineapple, bounced on the ball. Nothing worked and I was induced at 41 wks and she was born by emcs.

Does being hooked up to a oxytocin drip count?

I relaxed then day before and did nothing, went to bed and labour started 7am the next morning. Your body won’t go into labour unless it’s fully relaxed so try not to stress!

Just relax and focus on cute baby related stuff, oxytocin is the queen of birth hormones

i had my bloody show the morning of my due date. Felt no different and was desperately wanted a Sunday lunch in a town 5 miles from my home, then 2 mins before arriving to the pub my waters broke on the highstreet 😅Needless to say I had a sandwich for lunch in the back of an uber home

Packing my bag to leave my abusive partner

Did manage to leave 9 weeks after the baby was born thankfully

As the OP asked this in January I'm really hoping she's not still waiting for labour to start!!!

My first was 3 weeks late so I had to be induced so before we left for the hospital I insisted on painting the soffits on the new conservatory my neighbour was freaking out! she still took 18 hrs in labour I she was ready to start school by the time she was born….