I'm in the very early stages of my 3rd pregnancy- only 7 weeks. But I was wondering about others experiences with their 3rd labour.
my first labour was at 37 + 4 where I felt non-painful contractions in the evening and then the pain started at 37 + 5 at midnight, went to the hospital with very manageable pain at 5 am was 6cm on arrival and the boy was born at 9.20 am. 20 min pushing.
my 2nd in the night of 37 + 4 I awoke with the strongest non-painful contraction which I thought was a crazy Braxton hick contraction as it felt like a bowling ball in my uterus, but then I went back to sleep and that was that. The next morning still 37 + 4 I was running around getting my toddler to the nursery for my routine 37-week check-up at the hospital (not in the UK- it's normal to happen here) I had no contractions at all. I was examined prior to a swab being taken to check for infections (again routine here) and the student dr looked perplexed and asked her attending to help and he examined me and announced I was 6cm dilated. This was at midday. Stunned he admitted me and I had to head to delivery. I had the baby 4 hours later, 5 mins pushing 3 times.
So... has anyone else had this kinda thing... and what happened with the 3rd one. I have no idea what I would have done if I hadn't had a routine appointment that day, I was going to go to my job that evening lol as a teacher (teaching English as a foreign lang) to teenagers.
Luckily the hospital is only a 10 min drive away, but will I be aware of the labour in time? Btw I had epidurals both times with my boys which probably slowed the labour down a bit as I was too anxious about what the pain would be like. So the fear of no epidural, if I am not in time, scares me.
Let me hear some stories, I love a labour story.