For all the mamma's who've had their babies...

[MammaKoz]

What were your early signs labour was approaching when you look back on it now?

You would think that since this is my 3rd, I would remember, but I can't really. :

I was hoping y'all would help feed my obsession right now for any sign I might be having this baby soon! (Think of it as the same type of obsessing we all did way back when during the TWW and wondering if we were pg. )

So 'fess up! In hindsight, what subtle early labour signs were there that you maybe didn't notice at the time?

[Dreamer]

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Alayna

[manitobamama]

Ummmmm.... I was in denial that I was actually in labor because she was 8 days early. I had a mama's blessing to go to the night before she was born and I so wanted to go. I was pretty cranky and grouchy. I went grocery shopping with my oldest dd and she kept saying "mom you are being impatient and b*tchy to people!" I was trying to clean my room all day but kept having to stop cuz I was having bh and I was really really tired all afternoon so I napped off and on through the afternoon. I was also a lot quieter than usual during supper I barely said anything and I was also pretty quiet at my mama's blessing.
Here's hoping you mamas get to hold your babes soon!

[jee'smom]

with dd1, i felt almost depressed, very melancholy... than my water broke.
with ds and this dd, i started losing pieces of my bloody mucus plug in the morning. hth!
good luck!

[jessjgh1]

I honestly had none. Baby was 4 days overdue. i went to sleep. I woke up at 4 am with back pain (no surprise considering I was on a NST on my back for over an hour the day before).

By 4:30 I was having contractions every 3 minutes.

I had a little softer stools than usual, but nothing alarming, and nothing that hadn't happened a few times in the weeks before.

Nesting, well had been doing a LOT of that for the last month.

if there were any I missed them

Jessica

[sleet76]

after a few weeks of prodromal labor, and thinking about a possible elective induction (for a move) a few days away, I had given up thinking that I might go into labor on my own in the 5 days before the possible induction date. I had been late for my first two pregnancies, and the induction was at 39 weeks. On the night that I was 38w4d, my water spontaneously broke at 1:30 in the am. I had never had my water break before labor for either of my other births, so I was VERY surprised!

I did do one thing 26 hrs before my water broke to try to move things along. I don't beleive that all the natural induction methods work at all--I've been late twice before and tried a lot of them! But 26 hrs before my water broke, I ingested semen. That is NOT one of our normal practices, but I really wanted to try everything I thought was safe to get the labor going before the induction date so I wouldn't have to decide whether or not to be induced. When the next day rolled around and I was not in labor--that's when I gave up and resigned myself to having to deal with the induction--that's when my water broke.

So--lots of rambling to say I have no real signs, but I think my story is somewhat hopeful in that this baby was a lot earlier than his siblings, and my water spontaneously broke when it never did before.

[Ellarae]

Absolutely nothing for me. No contractions, no nausea, no soft stools. At exactly 41 weeks I woke up at 5:30 to my water leaking, and she was here at 9:00, 3 1/2 hours later. I had no clue the night before.

[Mel L]

Looking back, I went into super nesting mode. My sis even said that I was nesting, but I didn't think that nesting at 5 weeks early would mean the baby was soon approaching. My house was really clean for having a three-year-old, and I froze about 60 servings (about 10-15 meals) of food. The night before I had her, I was up every 45 minutes to go to the bathroom. I had intentionally avoided water after a certain point so I could get some sleep, but my body didn't want to help. That was the biggest sign.