When did you go into labour with DC1?

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I've still got a long way to go, I'm only 22weeks. But just been reading my pregnancy bible, and it says term is anything from 37+. Just wondering when others went into labour with their first child? If it means waiting 3weeks less then brill!

I didn't, I had to be induced 15 days late.
My next 2 came on time naturally.

38 weeks.

37 + 3

I went into labour on my due date and DD was born the following day.

I went into premature labour at 36 weeks when my waters broke in the night. I gave birth the next day after a fast labour (about 3 hours).

37+1

39+6 My waters started leaking the day before.

Waters broke at 38+2 and DS born at 38+3. Had been in and out of hospital for three weeks before that.

Due date both times (thank god)

40+9, after about 3 sweeps and having my waters broken (sorry!).
DC2 due in April, hope he makes a quicker entrance than DD did.

Goodness, that's quite a proportion of 'early' births! Being now at 36 weeks I've flipped from thinking it would be best if s/he came early to being worried that s/he might just do that!

10 days overdue.

Apparently going overdue is much more common than being early really, despite the large number of early babies here!

39+4

4 days before due date.
The idea of having MIL accompany me to hospital the day after started me off in terror.

And for those 2 weeks was the whole world texting you and calling you to ask if the baby was here yet?

38+6 went into labour... he was born at 39 weeks.

35+0. Would have loved to be on here moaning about waiting for him to come, rather than that sort of start tbh

Wow I'm surprised that more babies have come early!

IOL at 43+1. Lucky lucky me! And yes, Tigress, everyone texts, phones etc as if it is your fault the baby hasn't arrived - but after 2 weeks everything goes strangely quiet because people are worried something has gone horribly wrong...thankfully for the original snortpig it hadn't. She is 4 today

ds1 was 37+4 very quick labour. woke up with first pains at 3am and he was born at 0712am!! ds2 i thought would come early to so was gutted when he was born at 40+2!! he was quick 2. only 2.5 hours start to finish. good luck

went into labour 39+6, lazy baby born 40+2.

I'd deliberately planned lots of things to do that week as I didn't want to be sitting around getting frustrated that the baby had not yet arrived - found that a lovely long latent labour was just the ticket to distract me though

36+4 waters broke, ds1 was born 37+0.
i'm expecting ds2 to be early (i'm 29 weeks at the moment), everyone keeps saying to me he probably won't be. i hope he goes to 39 weeks.

38+1. DC2 on due date.