first was in hospital i was induced second was in the shower at the hospital which is were ds1 was born and last was while putting washing in the dryer at home.
I remember that now Danni . Let's hope this time is a little less eventful, LOL!! My girlfriends broke in Kmart and she didn't have to clean it up. They too gave her a towel and said it was ok to head straight home. She was continuously offering to clean it up. She was so embarrassed.
Hi,
With my DS contractions woke me at 2.40am. I got to the hospital at 7.00am and he was born at 10.58am.
With my DD my water broke in the frozen food isle at Woolworths while I was reaching in for the frozen corn. I felt her move and then a gush.
I did a quick check to make sure there was no one around and it wasn't enough to make a puddle. I rang my husband and told him to get home. I only had a few more things to get so I quickly grabbed those and I rang my obstetrician while I was at the checkout, who told me to get to the hospital. My DH still laughs at me because when he got home I was unloading the shopping from the car. He put all the cold stuff away while I packed my bag for hospital.
My water broke just before 5pm and she was born at 12.15am.
A few weeks later my DH was cooking dinner and he said to me there was no frozen corn, and I laughed and said 'Yes there definitly is!!'.
Danni- I agree with you. At first it is embarrasing but now it makes a great story.
Monica
Last edited by MonicaP; January 23rd, 2009 at 05:06 PM.
With DD1 my labour started in hospital after induction.
With DD2 my labour started somewhere between picking up DD1 from family day care/making dinner/bed time routine and eating dinner with DH. I noticed them going regularly once DD was asleep!! I'd had pains on/off all day but I was ignoring them.
I was at home both times. DS i was making DH a caramel slice and started getting mild contractions.. waters never broke. With DD was in the middle of the night (2.45am to be exact).. i woke up to feel a trickle, thought i better go to the toilet and check and as i stood up out it came.. my waters broke.
I went into labour at home watching movies (made myself sit through the whole movie before I went to hospital though ) and had my waters broken for me. Not a great story huh?
Hmm... Dh and I went out to a party, came home at 2am and DTD. Turned the lights on afterwards and both of us were covered, knee to bellybutton, in bright red blood. Scariest thing I've ever seen.
48 hours later my labour 'offically' started at the hospital, just after they had sent me to the maternity ward because they were 'positive' I wouldn't go into active labour for another 12 hours.
Hi,
Danni- My waters didn't gush as much as yours initially. I wouldn't have finished the shopping if they had of. I was wearing a pad because the bladder wasn't working as well as it should at that stage ( I was 37 weeks) and I wanted to prevent any little accidents when I sneezed or coughed, so the pad was able to absorb what fluid had come out. My trolley was loaded and I only had about three more things to get. I did contemplate leaving but I checked and made sure it wasn't showing and it didn't look like I had wet myself so I decided to quickly finish it off. They broke just before 5pm and shops over here close at 6pm (it was a Wednesday) so their was no one waiting at the checkout so I knew it wouldn't take long. By the time I got home however it was coming out in gushes and the pad wasn't absorbing it anymore and it did look like I had wet myself.
I got to the hospital about 6.30pm and they induced me at 8.00pm to bring labour on quickly because I had lost alot of fluid.
This is a great thread I am enjoying reading everyone's experiences!
LoriRae- That is scary.I would have completely freaked out!
Monica
Thanks for all your stories so far - they're really good!
I don't have my own story yet, but when my mum went into labour with my brother, my mum and dad were out for dinner at a restaurant. It was quite a fancy and expensive restaurant, so they stayed until they'd finished their meals!
I was at my OB appointment and didn't really know what is was I was feeling... had 4 contractions whilst in her office! Went home and staid there until the contractions were 2 mins apart before making the 35 min drive to the hossy... pretty boring really!
I was at home on sitting on an exercise ball (only way I could get comfy). Hubby rang me at 6pm after he'd just got out of the surf. I was only 36 weeks so wasn't really keeping an eye out for labour signs. I'd had bad back pain all day and said to him that I wasn't sure whether i could handle four more weeks of this back pain and as soon as I said that my waters broke in a huge gush! Luckily I had a towel on the ball cos it was so humid that day! I swore a bit and DH thought someone was breaking into the house. Once I finally got out what had happened he was home so fast! I'm so glad he wasn't still surfing when it happened! Will be interesting to see what happens this time!
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. Let's hope this time is a little less eventful, LOL!! My girlfriends broke in Kmart and she didn't have to clean it up. They too gave her a towel and said it was ok to head straight home. She was continuously offering to clean it up. She was so embarrassed.
) and had my waters broken for me. Not a great story huh?
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