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Hello all,

My waters went this morning at 1.30 after a sweep on Sunday.

I went into the hospital for waters and baby to be checked, been at home since about 4am, contracting every 6-7 mins with each one lasting just over a minute. I'm having to breathe through them and am only comfortable on my knees (my poor knees!).

Fingers crossed it continues!!

How exciting, good luck!

Exciting times!!!
Keep moving as much as you can. (:

How exciting!! Fingers crossed for you, keep us all updated

Good luck op :)

oooooh another live birth feed! good luck

Good luck op how exciting :) keep us all updated x

Thanks all, contractions perhaps every 4-5 mins now and fairly strong, 1 and a half minutes long. At their height, i can feel some pressure, birth centre don't seem to be concerned, they said stay at home until I want to contact them again. Just going to try the tens machine and see if it helps.

Get in a bath of just warm water (no soap etc as infection risk) I did this in hospital after having waters manually broken and helped the pain in the early stages.

Thanks all, I was indeed in labour. Baby was born at 23.30!!

massive congratulations op xxx

Congratulations!

I'm a first timer...You had about 18 hours of contractions! Is that normal?? OMG.... . .

Congrats by the way!!

Thanks all.

Lostinspace, it's all a distant memory already! In fact, despite ending in an episiotomy and forceps after starting with serenity in a birth pool with gas and air as baby was not coming down in a good position, I have quite a lot of fond memories of how the labour went!!

You'll be fine.