Question about birth partner and active birth stage

[Cherryrainbow]

Hey all so I'm just past 34 weeks saw midwife today. Doing birthplan in 2 weeks time together but I did ask today what the situation is regarding partners at the birth, she said only from once in active labour so around 4cm plus.

Was just wondering if anyones been in recently, did you hold off going to hospital as long as you could before going in so your partner could be there at the same time or did you find you had some time on your own before contacting partner to hospital? Is there anything to look out for in terms of knowing when abouts you are in that stage of labour? Many thanks x

[quote Bluejayway91]@Lockdownseperation that's good to know that may happen.

First child, so frankly terrified about everything.

The leaflet does say when your waters break or when you know you're in labour. I'm gonna have to speak to my midwife as I assumed that waters broke then labour happens?[/quote]
Labours usual break as a result of the labour, in very very circumstances babies come out in the unbroken sac.

I really recommend reading the positive birth book and doing the positive birth hypnobirthing. The two are not related to each other at all but they are both very good.

Your waters usually break during labour however if they break before you go into labour you need to call in as a 24h clock is started. If you haven't gone into labour you will be induced as there is an infection risk after your waters have gone.
They had me in for assessment when I called to say I thought my waters had gone. They were going to examine me and do a sweep after ctg monitoring but the puddle on the bed confirmed the waters going and I started showing signs of contractions so they didn't do the examines to minimise infection risk.