Can a fright cause premature labour? 25 weeks

[sunnyy88]

so long story short I watched a video my aunt shared on facebook which ended up being on of those prank videos where a scary face pops up and screams through the speakers.

I jumped and got a shot of adrenaline, my heart felt like it was going to burst out of my chest and baby kicked frantically for 5 mins after.

worried now that i'm going to go into labour :( please tell me i'm being daft

You're being daft

Relax and watch some comedy on Netflix .

I'm sure you'll be fine! When I was 32 weeks and waiting in my doctor's surgery someone came round to tell us all that they would be testing the fire alarms. The alarm going off still made me jump but not as much as my baby did, I thought he was going to pop right out of my belly button! He decided to arrive bang on his due date!

Labour actually needs the exact opposite to start- oxytocin over adrenaline. You need to be calm, safe, secure. Adrenaline, or a fright, will have the opposite effect

Erm, no

A while ago, a midwife has told me that if you were close to 37weeks+ and you as the mother felt you were in serious danger that your body would go in to labour to get the baby out where it will be safe, breathing, taken care of rather than stuck in utero and risk being in serious danger along with the mother. Not sure how much truth is in that, but there you go!

When I was about 25 weeks with my first baby my dad was on a life support machine. I was at home waiting to find out if he was ok as it was touch and go. I remember my heart beating frantically for a few hours and it had the baby moving so much I thought he’d kick his way out there and then. It was fine and we both calmed down!

It's just the baby responding to adrenaline. I had to do my first male catheterisation when I was about 24 weeks and my daughter took about two hours to calm down!