Where were you when you went in to labour?

[CherryLips1980]

And/or what were you doing?

With DD I was supposed to be being induced but in the end she decided to come without encouragement but fairly speedily, so it was just as well I was in hospital already!

Am now 36+3 with #2 and wondering how s/he will make his/her appearance, especially having dreamt last night that I was in labour!

[NoRoomForALittleOne]

In bed
At home
In bed
In hospital's 'triage area' whilst on the monitor

No dramatic waters breaking in B&Q or anything fun like that

[ThinkIveBeenHacked]

In bed both times, just contractions, but 3mins apart from the start. 4am with DD, had been out for a Chinese and a dance with some friends the night before. 6am with DS, had had sex the night before as an attempt to encourage labour.

DDs labour was 24 hours from 1st contraction to delivery, DSs was 4.5 hours from 1st contraction to delivery (in active labour for 22 mins!). Waters broke manually both times.

[vvviola]

At my baby shower - although I awas clueless and thought it was indigestion/back pain. It was only when my waters broke half an hour later when I got home that I realised what was going on.

on DD2 I was in the hospital and they wanted to induce me a few days later (big baby, lots of fluid). They did an exam to see when they needed to get me in.... and I was 5 or 6cm already

[SweetPeaPods]

Ds1 in hospital to be induced and on examination already 5cm!!
Ds2 at home around 1am I got up as couldn't sleep and contractions ramped up.

[perfectlybroken]

Ds1 waters broke when I was staying over at a friends. She has never mentioned the rug but I haven't seen it since...he was early
Dd2 induced in hospital

[ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba]

marking place to list it tomorrow - battery is dying

[sugar21]

Waters broke in Sainsbury's and not just a trickle They called an ambulance as I was on my own>> DD born 4hrs later

[Flipchart]

DS1 - sitting out in the back garden
Ds2 - I had just finished work - He was 10 days early and I wasn't due finish work for another 5 days.

[Kaekae]

At home both times.

[ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba]

I thought it through and it's pretty boring but here:

DS1 - induced, so hospital
DS2 - induced, so hospital
DS3 - home
DS4 - had ELSC
DS5 - home
DD - home
DS6 - home

I guess it would be nice to have some funny or interesting stories, but the reality is that I was very worried anything would happen while I'm not home (or in hospital)
so I got my wishes

[halestone]

In bed at home after the best nights sleep i had, had in ages.

[WaxyBean]

Both times sat on bed early evening watching tv when I had the Hollywood gush of waters breaking. Still blue in 36 and 48 hours before DC arrived though!

Incidentally both days I had been shopping in Waitrose which is something I never do....

[WaxyBean]

Blue in - waited. Massive autocorrect fail

[Cleanbean]

DC1 - at home
DC2- in intensive care!

[LIG1979]

dd - shopping
ds - in hospital. Waters had gone a few hours before but no labour and was waiting for the dr to sign me off to go home. ds was born 90 minutes later.

[Dawndonnaagain]

Ds1 In bed.
Ds2 Pottering around with ds1 first thing in the morning. Went in with contractions at 3 minutes apart. They got to two minutes apart and then ds2 went to sleep. They sent me home an hour later. Got home at eleven in the morning. Went into Labour properly again that evening around ten whilst having a fish supper at a friend's place.
Dtwins. Went for a scan at 33 weeks, had emergency section.

[Mitzi50]

DC1 - at home. DC2 - shopping in Greenwich Market with car (and hospital) on the other side of the river. Had to catch a taxi arranging to meet friends on the way to take DD. DS1 arrived within 30 minutes of getting to the hospital.

[weedinthepool]

DS1-induction
DS2-at home at 2.50am, though I had explosive diarrhoea from a chilli I'd eaten, looked in loo and it was blood and water not poo. DS born in hospital triage room at 3.10am, fastest drive of our life.
Dd-my waters went driving back from a sweep. Consultant had huge hands and said with an evil grin before sweep 'I will make sure you have this baby tonight' he was right, she was born that night.

[glidingpig]

In hospital, induced. Was shit actually, early labour kicked in just as DH got booted out for the night, so spent entire night chewing my pillow and trying not to wake the other women on the ward. Would have so much preferred to stomp around my own home groaning and watching crap on TV.

[LotsaTuddles]

In bed asleep at 2am, felt/heard my waters break, rushed not actually that fast though to the toilet. It was greeny brown so had to go straight to hospital, 4 hours later DS was born by EMCS as he was breech (he's still a tad dramatic now).

In bed asleep at 4am, felt/heard them again, rushed to the toilet, but no waters (I actually have no idea where they were but had a bloody show) DD was born at 5:30, considering I was still sitting on the toilet at home at 4:30 saying I couldn't get up, it's impressive that we made it in time

[dottydandan]

In bed asleep at 24+6
Watching the walking dead in bed at 37+4

[Roseybee10]

The first time I was in the house and had a show late afternoon then contractions started an hour later.
Second time I knew in the morning I was going into labour soon, no idea why. Had a show in afternoon at home and contractions started a few hours later in the evening. X

[Watto1]

First proper contraction was in the car, on the way to being induced at the hospital. DH was paranoid that my waters would go on the car upholstery but luckily that didn't happen until I was safely on the ward!

[pearlsandbows]

I was in the pub. It was an NCT meet up and ds was last of the group to be born. I didn't leave early though. Had a home birth and the pub was not far from home.