Am I paranoid

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When the dr says okay your full term your baby can come any time now ur due any day etc do women sit around an wait for the due dates an stay home in case or do some women still enjoy activities outside an go out till there water breaks ? How are you women not paranoid or anxious for that to happen in public???

Unless in active labour you just get on with life. You can't confine yourself to home from 37 weeks + that's potentially a whole month!

Waters very rarely break in a spontaneous gush anyway, likely a show would happen prior.

Always just got on with it, slowly usually but went for walks waddles, went to the shops, just got on with life albeit interspersed with as many naps as I could get.

Some people work till they are full term lol I'd be so anxious

Your waters can go at any time. Might went spontaneously in a huge splash in the middle of a pizza parlor at 31+6. It's honestly no big deal, a bit awkward but only for the fifteen seconds until you're either like hey, contractions or hey, I'm going to be a mum. I certainly didn't stay home. Most people I know work until they go into labour.

First DD waters went and then nothing happened. She had to be induced and was born 48 hours later. Second DD was 10 days late. I actually went and had my hair cut on my due date! Try and relax and just carry on as normal. As for working, I stopped 2-3 weeks before both.

My mum went to the supermarket when she was in early labor with my older brother.
I was out and about each day in the hopes it would move things along. When it did finally kick off DH and I went for a walk around the local park as the midwife said it would be while yet!

Thank you all

My waters went at 9pm at home and after a check up at the hospital I was told to go home and wait for labour to start, but remain active. The next morning we went to a cafe and had a massive fry up, then went for a long walk then to the supermarket, all while I was having mild contractions

Rosebud1985 that's wild

It's funny they always say it's rare for waters to break as a first sign of labour, yet for 4 out of 7 of my NCT group (me included) it was the first sign! I was at home luckily but not all of them were. I know anecdotally it doesn't mean much but we were surprised as at our NCT classes they'd said it rarely happens that way.

I was at the pub obviously not drinking) at 9:30pm and my labour started at 11 but I had about 4 hours of contractions before my waters broke so plenty of warning.

My midwives always said to me that mostly our bodies tend to wait until we and baby are ready. Perhaps that was just reassurance though. I had one spontaneous gush as the start of labour and that was my first in the middle of the night. My others were both induced. I was very worried it would happen at difficult times though, particularly when I was home alone with my toddler.

You do just have to get on with life as normal. I had awful pgp and sciatica and by the time I was 39 weeks couldn't really walk anywhere so mostly stayed at home. The only places I really went between about 37 and 42 weeks were school, my parents house and the supermarket maybe once a week with DH.

I'll just keep going about my day when the time comes I guess an try to relax

Both my DDs were a week late, I just carried on with life as normal - My waters didn't break with dd1 until I was in the thick of it at 8cm dilated - with DD2 I was stuck at 6cm and the midwife thought that popping them would help things along (it didn't)

I’m 37 + 1 and still going out and about on my own, driving etc. I still feel physically fine to do this and no signs yet so will carry on doing so.

I’ve only been on mat leave 1 week and couldn’t stay in for the next few weeks for fear of waters breaking, I would be climbing the walls!

I’m sure you’ll be fine

I have had 3 baby's and only bust when I was pushing

I'm 38 weeks and still working, couldn't think of anything worse than sitting in my house doing nothing for what could be another 4 weeks just in case my waters break

I'll go about my day when I'm due then an act as casual as I can

The last few weeks are long enough without waiting for things to happen. Just keep your phone charged and do what you want. I mostly slept though. I was knackered. I have a toddler this time. I've plonked her in front of paw patrol this morning as I'm just not functioning. Wish I could go back to bed. We've a toddler birthday party to go to this afternoon .

Sorry, that turned into a bit of a rant!

DD1 I went to Mothercare and brought a TENS machine in early labour- that went on for 24h! Then they ramped up and she was born another 36h later!

DD2- early labour in the middle of the night. She was born 42 mins later 😂

You can't plan it OP. Just carry on until you feel you can't

To be honest by the time due date comes round you'll be so fed up that you'll happily be as active as possible in the hope that it kick-starts labour.

I went out for lunch and dinner on my due date, then a wedding at three days over, followed by shopping and a long walk the following day, my waters started going in bed in the middle of the night at five days over :)

I'd feel so anxious

It’s natural to feel anxious OP. What part in particular?

I was induced at 41 weeks. Until the day(when I was told I was being induced the following day) before I carried on as usual, had my hair done, went shopping, saw friends, looked after DC and got the house ready