how did you feel the day you went into labour

[queenbee]

scared!! but excited about meeting my little one. i was induced.

[~StarBright~]

i was calm- but definately felt different.. i was schedueled for a c section for the tuesday and the week before i was preparing things thinking i still have till tuesday- then on saturday i went a bit nesty crazy and got everything i needed to do done (even though i stilll thought i had three more days)- bag all packed, house clean and tidy, shaved my legs and then sat down for the afternoon to rest and my contractions started at about 6:30pm- i had my little boy (still via c section coz i had already had one not long before) on sunday morning!

good luck
xoxo

[Snacks]

I was really restless. Couldn't sit still, didn't want to watch the TV show DH and I had been really enjoying previously. Just restless and odd.
Hope she comes soon for you

[snowchickie79]

To be honest, and hope not TMI, I felt like I'd eaten something bad. We had been out for dinner the night before. My belly was doing backflips and all sorts.. So my first contractions I thought was "something else" but in fact was my body clearing the way, so to speak, for bubba to come. I didn't think i was having contractions as was 11 days early and it wasn't until the third trip to the loo that I looked at the clock and realised the pains had a definite start and finish and were repeating themselves. Made me sit up and think so I got out of bed and started writing down the time and length of pains. By the third one I knew I was in labour (every 6 minutes and 30-40 seconds in duration at that early stage)...

Emotionally I was a little shocked and it felt surreal that it was actually happening. I was going around the house finding all my last minute stuff to pack (thankfully I had a list on the wall ready of what needed to be thrown in at the last minute e.g. tooth brush - highly recommended) so I was packing last things waiting for hubby to come home and my mum to come over. Our dog didn't know what was going on but she kept me company as I went into labour at 5am but it was 6am before I realised what was actually going on.

Good luck and enjoy it..

[Mum2SweetCs]

I had no signs leading up to it. Infact, on the night of my labour (which was 1 day before i was estimated to be due), we went bowling.

I was demonstrating to my brother's gf how she should bowl, and bending my knees, I fell on all FOURS!!!!

That night, I felt contractions and a little bleeding and then went into a very very long labour!

The best feeling of it all and of the world, was meeting your little one after 9 whole months!!

Best of luck =)

[sangie]

Same as snacks, I was really restless and anxious all afternoon. DH kept asking me if I had 'ants in my pants' cos I couldn't keep still! Also had a really huge appetite and craved carbs - think my body was preparing for an onslaught! Had my first contraction at around midnight and realised I was probably in labour a couple of hours later.

[Janie]

I was really out of it, and felt quite disconnected from everyone, like Cass said. I put it down to the really big week I'd just had, and being tired. I had my baby shower in the afernoon, and it was like I was on drugs or something. I did everything in slow-mo, I just couldn't hurry myself up. Apparently I was very flushed all day too. Strangely enough, I had less BHs than usual that day, from memory.

That evening the tears started (for no apparent reason), and just as I'd cheered up a bit, after two hours of crying (poor DH!) my waters broke. Cx started exactly one hour later, baby born 14 hours later, 5 weeks early.