how did you feel the day you went into labour

Just wondering how you felt the day you went into labour

Did you feel absolutly exhausted

Did you feel cranky or happy

Did you feel just off

what were your signs

I woke up the day before DD was born and just felt "different" - like my body knew what it was going to do. Shortly after I had a show, and continued to lose my plug through the day, as well as having the runs! I started having contractions late that night and went to hospy the next morn :)

Sick and tired pretty much sums it up LOL. With #1 I had the runs for a day & half (and looking back it was probably pre-labour pains too, but thought it was just my tummy at the time), so had already lost a night's sleep. And with #2 I was up all night vomiting and went into labour the next day dehydrated and exhausted. My body isn't kind to me! LOL. Altho my labours weren't awfully long, DS official labour was 5 1/2 hrs, and DD was.. I don't know actually! LOL. But it was all within the same day.. not sure when I was in established labour with her, coz they actually tried to prevent it with her being prem, so it was probably made longer than it should have been.

I woke up to my DD (in utero!) going crazy, kicking everywhere and wriggling (as much as she could in that tight space). DH and I laughed at how she kicking so much. i remember thinking it was strange, but wasnt concerned.

Then i started to feel a bit anxious mid-morning. i HAD to plant my seedlings that i bought the day before and I remember telling DH that maybe he shouldnt go to soccer. but then i told him to go because i was just being silly and emotional (i was 38 weeks so had no reason to believe that DD was coming).

At around 2pm i got really really tired so went back in the house and had a snooze and started watching a midday movie. i noticed that DD was very quiet and hadnt moved for awhile. i remember trying to get her to move and occassionally i would get a disgruntled nudge or movement out of her LOL!

and at 4pm on the dot, my waters broke. i have to say that my reaction at first wasnt shock, as i think deep down i knew that it was going to happen that day. was peeved that i didnt listen to myself and had DH go to soccer though!

So in summary:

1.) nesting hit an all time high (gardening for me). it was no longer the wishing to have it done, i HAD to do it, to the point where i was quite fretful at the thought of it not being done then and there.

2.) DD went a bit beserko (i think from the early contractions - which i thought were BH but must have been deeper for her to react to them).

3.) DD going really quiet

4.) gut feeling that all was happening...trust your sub concious.


HTH.

well they say im in the early stages of labour right now and i feel.. hungry, sick and exhausted. Excited at the thought i could meet my baby girl soon. yesterday i felt off too.. not doing anything but exhausted anyway.

Good question :p With DS i was induced so didn't really have pre-labour symptoms as such but i did get the runs when the drip was put in and contractions started.

This time round i have no idea what my body is doing! I feel like i've been in pre-labour since 36weeks! I've had loose poo's (sometimes pretty much the runs 3-4 times a day) for weeks and have been nesting like crazy this last week. Bub is engaged and ready to go and sooooo low (has been since 32 weeks!) but no labour yet :doh:.
I've been getting braxton hicks like crazy all through this pregnancy and in the last few weeks they've been coming 10mins apart for a few days then stopping. Very frustrating!.
Anywho i was sure i was going to go into labour yesterday because i just felt 'off' and had the runs...no luck yet tho..

Hollye im feeling exactly the same as you -

ive been having BH all morning nothing regular tho of course. I feel like ive been out on the town for 4 days - so hoping its coming soon, im so done i feel like ive been preggas for 2 years which i have really had a 7 month break in between pregnancies - im so just over it...

I cant wait to meet my little princess either.

I just felt strange... like kinda disconnected from the world in a weird way. I had no prior warnings, no show or anything like that so it really surprised me to go into labour in the middle of that night.

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

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

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 :)

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..

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 =)

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.

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.

The day that I went into labour I felt good. My mum was visiting and took me to a lookout and shopping hoping that the walking would send me into labour. Which it did although it was 2 hours after my mum got on her flight home.

Only 5 mins before my water broke I was on the phone to a friend who had asked how I felt. I said to her that I now thought that bubs was not going to come for a while. I was in for a surprise thats for sure! 23.5 hrs later my beautiful DD was born.

I was sound asleep when my water broke at 1am so I went back to bed and kept sleeping. All that day I had totally irregular contractions and was in complete denial that it was even happening and kept trying to pretend that my waters had even broken, LOL! The next morning I went in to the hospital to be induced and had a mini breakdown in the assessment room. My absolutely amazing midwife calmed me down and I just went into serious labour mode and focused. I think I had my melt down because I was absolutely terrified but was good to go after I had some tears.

Best of luck.

I had had pretty serious prelabour pains for a week and hadn't slept or eaten much for that long either. I was having hot baths and showers trying to relieve the pain. Little did I know I was in established labour (went to hospital at 8cm dialated!). I was very teary and feeling sorry for myself! I couldn't make any decisions, my brain just wouldn't function properly and I didn't want anyone near me or to touch me.