Did you go into labor with no signs shortly before? - Page 2

[Joyster]

With my third my BH contrax had tapered off a week or two before labour. I then got up to use the washroom in the morning and next thing I knew, I was in labour.

My first two started with my water breaking, but this guy just decided to come really quickly with little warning.

[Wittyone]

1st baby, 41+1 I consented to my first VE and was long, closed, VERY posterior. My water broke at midnight that night, contractions started about 30 minutes later and he was born the following evening. Absolutely no lead up, had gone for a 4 mile hike the day before and truly felt I might be pregnant for days or weeks more - I felt fine!

[donutmolly]

With DD1, I had 2 days of prodromal labor, so imagine my surprise when I went straight into regular active labor with DD2, on my EDD, with no signs whatsoever beforehand.

[GuildJenn]

I did lose my mucus plug with both pregnancies, but both of mine have been atypical. With my first went into the hospital 45 minutes after my 'first' contraction and was almost 7 cm. That first contraction I was convinced I had a bladder infection until I had two more contractions within about 7 minutes. Everyone was like "you've done so well to get to 7 cm at home!" And I was like "I woke up about an hour ago."

My second I was having "Braxton-Hicks" while out shopping. When we got home I was really bored and annoyed with my husband for working. So I started timing the BH for fun and found they were happening every 3 minutes. I called the after hours nurse and chatted through them and she said come down and get checked out, so we went down about an hour later. I almost didn't bother taking a bag along.

They hooked me up to a monitor and saw there were WEE TINY contractions and the OB was going to send me home when she got the bright idea of having the student doctor do an internal for practice, which was fine with me 'cause I wanted the info. I was over 5 cm dilated and the membrane sac was bulging (which confused the student doctor entirely). I had my son about an hour later.

I'm kind of glad I was not in the car going home at the time.

So yes it does happen. I don't think it's totally typical.

Having said all that I'll probably have a 48 hr labour with this one or something.

[Sharlla]

i get bloody show a few hours before going into labor. from first contaction to delivery to birth its around 4 hours
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[GoGoGirl]

Originally Posted by Ambivalent Dreams

Anyone go into labor without anything leading up to it? What was it like? Did you just suddenly start having contractions? Did your water break? How long was your labor?

I didn't have anything at all leading up to labor. No braxton hicks contractions, no mucus plug, no cleaning out, really nothing.

I woke up with contractions at 8 am when I was 40+5, and DD was born at 7 am the next morning. The contractions were regular from the beginning--they started out 5 minutes apart.

My water broke some time during my 6 hour (UGH) transition. I was in the pool already. I don't really remember it, or if it changed how labor felt. I was pretty deep into laborland by that point.

ETA: I didn't have any cervical checks before (or during) labor, so I don't know what my cervix was like before that first contraction.

[Mosaic]

DD2 was like that: from first sign of labor to baby in hands was 12.5 hours! I got up for my nightly ~4:30am potty break and noticed some spotting, then went back to sleep after noticing birthing waves were 9 minutes apart. Went to work, didn't get much done, came home at 1:30, and DD was born at 5:05pm!

[butterflies]

I had days of prodromal labor and horrible back pain w/ my 1st. Then a day of rest and went into labor.
With #2, I had zero signs- other than the same BH I'd been having for weeks. I went to 41.5 weeks, ate a big yummy meal on Superbowl Sunday (think chili, brisket, etc), took a nice nap during halftime and woke up in labor.
Never saw a mucus plug or any kind of show in either birth. And my water didn't break until I was ready to push with both.

[bella99]

Yup.

The days leading up to my daughter's birth, I had a few BH contractions every night, but nothing even remotely painful and not more than a couple at a time.

Then when I was 38w6d, still with no signs of labor, I had sex...20 minutes later my contractions started and about a half hour after that, I realized my water broke.

My daughter was born at 39 weeks, 9 hours after my first contraction.

[OkiMom]

With my first I was checked like 2-3 days prior to labor and was told no way I was going in labor anytime soon. I wasn't dilated, effaced or anything. The midwife told me that she thought I would go at least 2 weeks post due date. That was Friday, had her on Monday.

Second I didn't have any contractions but I was dialated to 4 when checked a week before I had her. Maybe thats why she came so fast, I was already half there.

[laughymama]

[AFWife]

On April 14th I had an OB appt at 8am. They did a cervical check and told me, "See you next week. You're not dilated AT ALL." That day I was exhausted (someone told me you get a burst of energy before labor?) and felt no "signs" at all.

At midnight my water broke. My son was born 7 hours later. I was 38 weeks to the day...

[camprunner]

From the birth story of my first baby

On Wednesday October 9th, I went to see my midwife. I had been seeing blood for two days. I was a finger tip dialated and told that I would KNOW if I was in labor. So obviously the discomfort that felt like my cervix was stretching like a rubber band was just a normal part of pregnancy. She did say she was almost positive I would go into labor that weekend.

At 4:30 AM on Thursday, October 10th, I woke up to the discomfort again. This time the discomfort was 8-10 minutes apart and peaking after 30 seconds. Once I got out of bed at 6:00 AM, they stopped. I didn't feel them for the rest of the day. I even went for a walk that afternoon. We had a friend over for dinner that night. I was telling her that dh and I were planning on going to my Mom's house that weekend because I was sure the baby would be late. Ofcourse, I was having those discomforts again and they were again peaking at 30 seconds.

Around 10:30-10:45 PM , I was working on pulling some stitches out of the sling I made for the baby. During one of those discomforts, I felt a pop and some wetness and I knew that my water had broken.

She was about 7 hours from my water breaking.
From the birth story of my second

Wednesday morning, November 30, 2005 at 2am I felt like I had to pee so I got up and went to the bathroom. I felt like I had to pee again 12 min. later. I started to get suspicious when I had to pee again 11 min. later.

She was born 8 hours and 12 minutes after the first contraction.
As you can see, there was much less warning about impending labor with my second baby.