I stopped sleeping and didn't want to eat for about 48 hours before. I had toasted sandwiches so I was eating something. The day before, I was pretty uncomfortable, but had no idea labour had actually started because my pain was on the top of my belly and wasn't really anything regular. So I just plonked in front of the computer all day, loading cds into itunes and had an icepack on the sore area. Went to hospital at 3am after having about a 1/2 hr sleep and bingo, DD was born 8 hours later!