Did you have a 'feeling' about your baby coming early or late?

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And were you right?

I know there's no science just interested to read your stories.

DD1 I just felt would be late, I think because I was feeling so well and had lots of energy very late into the pregnancy. She arrived at 41+6

I'm now 35 weeks with DD2 and I just feel like she'll be earlier than due date (or at least not as late as DD1!) But maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part because I feel like I've been hit by a bus and I don't want to face up to 7 more weeks of this!!

How come you knew? Were you extra uncomfortable or something?

I can't really explain, it was just a sort of sixth sense, though probably more likely to have just been coincidence I suppose!! All my mum's babies either came early or were kept in by a cervical stitch so I wonder if that put the idea in my head. I did get very uncomfortable the week or two before he arrived, but had absolutely no clue he was coming so soon! So evidently my sixth sense wasn't that reliable 😂

Yes - only thing I've ever had a "gut" feel about. People would say "oh it's your first time, you're likely to go overdue" which I would just have such a physical feeling of resistance to, and a deep sense that wasn't happening to me. 38+6.

Absolutely no intuition about anything else!

I was absolutely wrong both times.
1st baby I had some real life trauma and I was literally so upset everyday that I thought the stress of it all would surely bring baby on early - it didn't.
2nd baby - pregnancy was much easier although worked until literally 10 days before due date. Baby was late 4 days. Was booked in for induction anyway but thought I'd have baby early as I was a lot bigger than 1st time plus working so late on

Yep I just knew with both of mine they would be early. Both born at 37 weeks

I was convinced I'd go overdue by around 2 weeks, I planned to finish work 6 days before my due date. Instead, I gave birth at 34+1.

I was convinced my second born was going to be several weeks early. She was due at Christmas so I went a bit crazy making sure I was 100% ready just in case.
She ended up a few days early.

Yep. At 34 weeks with my twins, I booked an appt to get my hair cut at home the following Thursday.

I started to feel really uncomfortable about it, though, and knew the appointment would be 'too late' so I called the hairdresser and re-booked for the Tuesday instead (2 days earlier).

So, I had my hair cut at midday on the Tuesday, had a bit of a dodgy tummy afterwards, called the hospital in a panic, they sent an ambulance to bring me in for a check up and I had my babies four hours later.

I expected both of mine to be roughly ten days late by my NHS dates, since most of my family have been, plus there's anecdotal reports that having a long cycle correlates with a longer pregnancy.

Both were ten days late.

I knew both babies would be early, and I knew both would be small. It's just the way we cook 'em.
DS1 was 37+ weeks and 6lb 5oz, DS2 was 38 weeks and 6lbs.

I had an absolute conviction that ds would be a couple of days late but felt very relaxed about the whole thing. Completely uneventful pregnancy. For a normally disorganised person, I was packed, ready, house clean, freezer full.

My very annoying mid-wife rang me at 9am on due date and started clamouring for me to go in for a sweep, which I didn't want. By that point, she'd already told me baby was breech (wrong), that I'd need a c-section (wrong), that I had gestational diabetes (wrong). She was a complete drama queen and I'd had enough of her.

When she wouldn't take my polite 'no thank you', and tried to bully me, I got annoyed, told her to go away and stop twitching, and hung up on her. Honestly, I'm never rude to medical staff but she was really not helping.

Pains started 40+4, slightly slow labour, ds arrived at 40+6 and I needed a little help right at the end.