All the mummy ladies....

I have a question for all the previous mummies-

Did anyone have a labour that started REALLY spontaneously? Like i mean with no prelabour signs beforehand? No BH's, no show, no dilation, no cramps or period pain, and then Boom!. I'm just curious because i have had absolutely NO prelabour signs for a week now and am really disheartened that NOTHING is happening. Wondering (and hoping) that labour can start suddenly, from go to whoa without all the prelabour rigamarole. Does it ever happen? Or am i just grasping at straws?

My seconfd labour started like this..just a niggle which i though was wind then bam a few hours later i was in full labour for 2 hours and he was born...so yup it can just happen!

Good luck! :hug: x

I had no warning whatsoever before labour started.

Yep, no warning at all :o Not a niggle, twinge or anything that was indicating that labour was impending.

Was driving home from yoga, all normal, not a niggle anything, water broke :o got home, ctx started about 45 min after waters broke, got to hospital about another 45 min after that and DD was born less than 1 hour later and I was 7-8cm when I got to hospital :D

Definitely possible!

Full story is in my sig :)

My first was like that. I didn't get any prelabour... but with my second I had a fair bit of prelabour.

Good luck with everything.
xox

I didnt' have any niggles with my first Jaidan, just my waters breaking (then I was induced as nothing happened). Chase again, nothing just back pain (he was posterior)

You still have up to 27 days left, don't stress :D

With my DD there was no sign she was coming - we were at a friends for tea and I said she wouldn't be coming any time soon because there was nothing happening. Got home, sat down and contractions started. She was born 9 hours later.

Yep, with my second. it was my due date and we decided to DTD to try and get things moving ;) and not 5 minutes later the contractions started and she was born 8 hours later.

I got no pre-labour either. No braxton hicks, no loosing the plug etc. I woke up one morning with some mild cramps. Within an hour I had a bloody show and got to hospital 2 hours later almost fully dilated. I thought they we're going to send me home.

Yep with DS my waters broke spontaneously with no pre-labour signs at all.

yep. woke up at 7:30am with a contraction - they kept up at 5mins apart for at least the next 24hrs :o i didnt have any other sign - i didnt have any BH or anything.

just relax though - i feel thats what kicked my labour off. if you drink tea get some raspberry leaf tea that'll help the labour along - plus it'll help you relax :hug:

Thanks heaps girls,

Im not too desperate right now, but not having any prelabour stuff was getting me down. Its good to know it still might happen at any time though. Fingers Crossed!

:hug: My first was like that. I remember sitting with my birth support partner at an appt, and saying that I really didn't feel any niggles or anything and that I thought I'd go days over. I went into labour at 2:30 the next morning, contractions started at a regular 8 mins apart, we left for the hospital around 10am, and bub was born 1:30pm.

The only outward sign was that we'd been at mum and dad's for dinner and apparently I was in a FERAL mood, making snide comments about everyone, especially DH and being really difficult, to the point that they sort of breathed out a sigh of relief when we left. :rofl:

Mine was sort of like that. I was feeling down being over a week overdue with no sign of anything, then one morning I started to have a show and went into labour that day. So it doesn't have to be building up for weeks.

No prelabour here. I was even at the OB the night before I went into labour and she gave no indication that labour was in any way close. I woke up less than 12 hours after that appointment with my waters breaking in a massive gush and contractions starting about an hour later. Big surprise - as we were only at 36 weeks!

BW

Wow - it can happen really quickly by the sounds of it. I was thinking that there would be signs that something was about to happen or it would only happen really quickly with second labours.
I'm still going to the gym and now I'm worried that my waters might break as I'm waddling along on the treadmill, the shops would be bad as well.
This is my second but I have no idea what I'm in for, last time we just rocked up to the hospital ready for a caesarean, no labour.

i had BH's 3 days before i went into labour for 6 hours and then they just stopped but thats all i had and i was 40 weeks exactly on the friday when he was born

i had no sign at all, was standing in the bathroom naked cos i was about to get in the shower and then all of a sudden i felt i trickle running down my leg, went to spread my legs to see what was going on on BAM it was like the wall had broken lol waters went everywhere lol good thing i was in the bathroom :)

i had NO signs of ANYTHING at all. i was sure i was going to go over lol

contractions started 20 mins after my waters broke.

With DD1 I had 6 hours of back pain (she was posterior) and then my waters broke. She was born 8 hours later. I didn't associate the back pain with labour though because I was only 36 weeks and wasn't expecting to go into labour.

DD2, I had one strong pain all of a sudden and then gave birth to her four hours later. No warning at all.

One thing I have found is that a lot of women have days or even weeks of pre labour and don't even realise it's pre labour. I have also found from personal experience, that when you stop thinking "when is it going to happen!?!" it happens....murphy's law ;) good luck with it all xx

with DS nothing, then 5.15 am period like pain, waters broke at 5.30 am, contractions started - he was born at 6.27 am.....and no indication at all...I had woken at about 3 am and was on the computer sending emails to everyone saying that I had no idea when this baby was going to come (I was one week overdue)....

I have 3 boys, first one I went into labour 2 days past his due date, at 1am, woke up my partner - said - we need to go to the hospital...he was born at 8.35am

Second son was induced at 37 weeks due to pre-eclampsia. Third son was induced 10 days over. So anything is possible - this time I have had the few days in a row of BH contractions, but then nothing...so I don't know what to expect this time....

But it'll happen when you least expect it...lol, always does!