Pre labour symptoms? Can labour really just happen?

[Salad]

Hi Salsa,
I am 39 weeks monday and still waiting for a sign of labour I havent had any real changes at all, I know bubs is down ready to go but I have not noticed any real changes in my body. I am starting to think that I will be pregnant for another month I realise people can just go into labour but I am starting to think that is never going to happen, I hate these last weeks of waiting. Good Luck with everything i hope it happens soon for you.

[Cricket]

With my first, I didn't notice anything really different, except being achy and tired and weepy, until I woke up with regular contractions, 5 min apart. It can happen.
Those last few weeks can be SOOOOO long, I know. It'll come, don't worry. All the best!

[bon]

I didn't have any labour 'signs' so to speak. The first two I was induced, so that was why but with the third, I woke up at about 2 am with contractions - they were not too strong, but strong enough that they woke me up and I couldn't get back to sleep.

[Cassius2]

I had absolutely no pre-labour: my waters broke at 38 +2 weeks and contrax started a few hours later 3 mins apart....

in retrospect there were some signs: i got very emotional in the week before. i didnt want to move anywhere and walking was the pits. then the day my waters broke i went a bit manic and tried to clean the house top to bottom and dig a new garden bed...

i hope that it happens soon for you and you can prove the ob wrong and get your vbac!!

[MantaRay]

I had no warning at all with DS1, just boom, ctx 8 mins apart. With DS2 I had been having painful BH for quite a few weeks, so if you don't count that as pre-labour I didn't have any signs with him either. And then he arrived quickly, labour was just 3 hours.

[Tinks]

I had absolutely no signs of labour at all either. My waters broke as i got into bed one night. That's how I knew

[Nai]

No real signs for me either - just my waters breaking! I had been to the OB the day before and he said that I could have up to 3 weeks to go and he didn't think anything was happening

[Salsa]

wow - that seems to be quite a few of you who just went straight into it!
Its exciting - but I wonder if I will still be feeling that way if Im still having pre labour stuff 2 -3 weeks from now?
Im trying to relax and tell my body and baby that Im ready now

It just seems such a strange thing to believe I might actually go into labour this time