does everyone get a show?

[GirlWithTheMouseyHair]

am now 3 days overdue - does everyone get a show before contraction start? I know your waters can break at any time...

I don't know, but will be watching the thread with interest - I'm due today and haven't had a show yet.

I only noticed one with dd, don't remember seeing anything with ds or the dts.

backache was my first indicator.

No. Don't wait for a show if you think you are in labour. I had shows with my first two and expected one with my third. I spent hours thinking it must be a false alarm because I hadn't had one. Luckily I went to hospital to be checked. Lucky, I say, because 9 minutes after I did have the show, my baby was in my arms!

I am three days overdue too. No show for me yet.

Never had a show. Waters didn't go till well after labour established either.

DS1 - waters broke, no contractions, no show.
DS2 - contractions, waters didn't break till labour very well established & no show.

Sorry, should also have said best of luck to you girlwiththemouseyhair & waitingtogivebirth & hope you don't have to wait much longer

Not at all.

I didn't; and was only 3 hours off delivery before my waters broke.

Best of luck, you overdue ladies! My DS was 16 days late (and induced)

ah good...not that I have any other signs of impending labour, just I suppose at least a show means it'll happen sooner rather than later in theory and I'm just getting jealous of other girls due now who've had theirs!

have such a boring weekend ahead fullof accountancy and tax returns, could do with the baby showing up so I can put it all off!

DD1 no show until contractions were well underway. Coincided with body clearing itself out (TMI?)

DD2 - show at 9pm waters broke 6hrs later.

Good luck!

i had show when i reached established labour (also as body cleared out) and waters were broken just before dd was born,
good luck

DD: no show, no waters breaking, just backache, backache, backache, worse backache, epidural. Whole thing took about 24 hours during which time I didn't feel a single, distinct contraction.

DS: show mid afternoon, six hours later waters broke, two hours later baby arrived.

I have read that one can have a show more than a week or so before labour starts ... Hope all goes well.

why is the start of labour so drastically different for everyone?! am so bored of symptom spotting!

thanks for the luck everyone - good luck wem and waitingtogivebirth

i didn't - and waters didn't break til pushing stage!

No show with either of mine.

Waters went first in both labours.

No show with either of mine - praps never noticed?????

Only had one show in 4 labours.

never had a show or waters break.

my only indication of labour was regular contractions.

had ARM with DD1 at 8cm and DD2's waters went as she was being born.

I did have a show but not til I'd already been in labour for at least 24 hours (can't remember exactly). I thought it was my waters breaking when it did happen, as it was a big gush... in fact I had to have my waters broken after another 12 hours or so.

Never had a show with either of my VB's

ARM with dc1 at about 8cm, and waters broke at start with dc3

I always wondered what happened to the show - friends of mine who had them said it was a massive great lump of gunk so difficult to miss!

I got 1 with dd but after my waters had gone (waters went first then pains).

Ds i had a show 6 days before going into labour.

No show with either, waters broke about 15 minutes before baby born.
only indication was contractions and there was no mistaking them

Oh crikey its a bit like waiting for a balloon to pop which could happen basically any second for about 3 weeks to a month...

hi.....i had a show nearly everyday of the 2 weeks i was over due....... a little bit at a time....... and i had 2 be induced in the end......dnt no if this was the case for any1 else..also my waters had broke and i hadnt realised.....as a first time mum id assumed it would be something u wud realise...