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Show... in a 1st time mum - how long before labour? Another of pupuce's quest for info!

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pupuce · 17/05/2005 19:57

I know (and I always say) that a show - especially in a 1st time birth - can come many days beore the birth but I wondered how common that was.

SO...

In your first labour, if you did not have a sweep (and also no one had done an internal examination)... how many days or hours before the labour started did you have your show?
Thank you as ever !

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SoupDragon · 17/05/2005 19:59

After the first period pain like twinges so maybe around 20 hours

rubles · 17/05/2005 20:00

Show - 7am saturday
Waters broke - 6pm saturday
Labour started - 6am sunday
ie nearly 24 hours

hunkermunker · 17/05/2005 20:02

I never had a show. Ever. DS was ten days late and I so wanted to have one too! I have no idea what happened to it - my waters broke at the beginning of my labour - no show. Weird.

kama · 17/05/2005 20:03

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pupuce · 17/05/2005 20:04

Soupy when was your show????

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maretta · 17/05/2005 20:25

I had a show at about 6.30pm and I'd say labour started about an hour after that.
I had ds 1am - so about six or seven hours from show to birth.

AvocadoLover · 17/05/2005 20:26

Woken up by waters breaking at 3.30am and contractions 2 mins apart. Went straight to loo and had obvious show. Ds born 12 hours later.

serenity · 17/05/2005 20:34

I didn't have a show with DS1 at all, I went straight into contractions, and had my waters manually broken when I was 3 or 4cm dilated.

serenity · 17/05/2005 20:36

Oh and like HM DS1 was overdue (8 days)

loobywoof · 17/05/2005 20:39

I was a 7 days between show and birth with baby 1 and baby 2

Aero · 17/05/2005 20:42

Period type cramps from 2am Saturday
Show 7am Saturday.
4cm dilated midnight
Ds1 born 10am Sunday

NomDePlume · 17/05/2005 20:43

Show was lunch(ish) time, around 12.30pm.

Waters broke and labour started midnight same night

DD was born at 2.31am.

i was 37.5 weeks when DD was born,if that makes any difference

march29 · 17/05/2005 21:04

7 days between the show and the actual birth....but pre-labour pains like strong contractions for all those 7 days....! hope it goes better for u!

puddytats · 17/05/2005 21:05

I did not have a show. Waters broke early morning and we went straight from there!

SoupDragon · 17/05/2005 21:06

erm, After the first period pain like twinges so maybe around 20 hours before DS was born. I don't know exactly what you would class as when labour started but my first twinges were literally just before the show and 20 hours before DS was born.

suedonim · 17/05/2005 21:49

About six hours.

starlover · 17/05/2005 22:05

Had a show one morning about 3/4 days before and then more the morning before I went into labour. Didn't go into labour til around midnight that night though.

starshaker · 17/05/2005 22:10

mine was over a week i think it was a while anyway

jampots · 17/05/2005 22:14

10 days before labour

vicdubya · 17/05/2005 22:19

Show at 6am Monday (3 days before due date)
Period like pains started 4pm Mon
Proper contractions at 3pm Tues
Waters broke 5pm Tues
DS born 9.30pm Tues

Lua · 17/05/2005 22:30

I had a show about 4Am and DD was born at 2 PM.

rickman · 17/05/2005 22:31

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aloha · 17/05/2005 22:45

Just over a week Pupuce. Strictly speaking, second time birth, but only time I actually went into labour.