How did you feel the day before you went into Labour?

As the title suggests I want to know how people felt the day before they went into Labour. Did you go from feeling totally fine to full blown contractions or was there a period or feeling increasingly uncomfortable, stomach tightnings etc in the lead up to the real deal?

I don't want to rant but I am just SO uncomfortable, walking is hard, sitting is hard, sleeping is hard....everything is hard! :shakehead:

Also, when can I ask to be induced? I have my 40 week appointment on Monday. Can I ask to be induced on the Friday or Saturday? Do I have a choice on when I am induced?
I really don't want to wait until 42 weeks. I don't think I can wait that long!

Any advice / help is appreciated :)

With DS, I felt fine besides some slight niggles in my back. Mentioned it to my MW at my 39 week appt and she said, nope nothing will happen go home. My waters broke a few hours later :lol: I had slight cx that night but ended up being induced as things didn't progress.
DD I had pre-labour for weeks and the morning I went into labour I didn't notice any real changes other than the cx.

I feel for you, the last stretch is the hardest with no room for bubs to move. You feel so uncomfy all the time, so rant away. I think you can be induced from your DD onwards but anytime before that they like a medical reason. Try and give it some time if you can, rest up as much as possible and fingers crossed your body does it all for you.

Oh Blondie, it is so hard waiting. Specially when it is your 1st. When I was pregnant with Amelia, I was uncomfy for weeks and then the day before I had a absolute rest day, did nothing at all and went to bed feeling great. When I woke up around 3:30am I just knew today was the day and 30 minutes later POP. I was 41wks and was due to go to be monitered that afternoon. My hospital will normally induce at 10 days over.

This time I keep hoping I get the same feeling but so far nothing and as for having a do nothing day, that wont happen with a 17 month old so I will just keep going till it happens. I will do evertything I can not to get induced till 14 days over but I am feeling really good still. I completely understand your want to meet your bubs so there is is never any harm in asking at your next appointment when they will consider induction.

With both my other kids i was 2 and 3 days over due respectively so i was just hanging on every minute waiting for something. But as for how i felt the day before, no different to any other day unfortunately. DS's started with contractions in the afternoon whereas DD's my waters broke during the night.

I stopped sleeping and didn't want to eat for about 48 hours before. I had toasted sandwiches so I was eating something. The day before, I was pretty uncomfortable, but had no idea labour had actually started because my pain was on the top of my belly and wasn't really anything regular. So I just plonked in front of the computer all day, loading cds into itunes and had an icepack on the sore area. Went to hospital at 3am after having about a 1/2 hr sleep and bingo, DD was born 8 hours later!

apart from the usual tired and over-it thing, I was okay. except really really frustrated that this baby would never arrive!
I was 40+4 when i had DS. went into labour at 1.30am (well at least woke up in labour) so i missed the start if there was one.
I did however do a 4km brisk walk two days before, not sure if that helped.

I was due to be induced on the monday... had ds on teh friday so maybe he had a good long hard think about things and opted the natural route.

Sorry I can't really help. With Brendan my waters broke spontaneously at 28 weeks, during the day I had felt tired and slept a lot but I had my glucose test the day before in Perth, but felt fine. I felt horrible the entire two weeks before his birth, but being stuck on hospital bed rest will do that :lol:

With Tristan I just didn't feel right, took myself to hospital where they found I was in the early stages of labour and threatening to go full blown (at 26 weeks) I then spent the next 8.5 weeks with contractions etc on strict home bed rest. Every day felt the same up until he was born.

All the best, I hope it happens soon xx

I felt like i did every other day, uncomfortable, tired, and over it, but i had no inkling that contractions would start until they did at 2am.

As for induction, i think they will do it after 40 weeks if that is what you want.

I went and had acupuncture at 40 weeks, i had 2 sessions and went into labour. the night after the second one. Not sure if it helped, but worth a shot!

I just got out my pregnancy diary to see just how I was feeling! I wrote that I had had less BH but the ones I was having were lasting longer. My plug was starting to come away and looked like snot in the loo!
I was starting to tidy things up. I was very upset and cried quite a bit.

The night before I went into labour, I've written was the worst night ever! I was having very big, painful BH all night that were coming up and down my tummy and across my back.

The actual day (went into labour at 7pm) I was very tired and couldn't even be bothered getting dressed that day. I also got a burst of energy late afternoone and sprinted around cleaning the bathrooms!

Good luck, hope the wait is not too much longer!

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I also got a burst of energy late afternoone and sprinted around cleaning the bathrooms!

Good luck, hope the wait is not too much longer!

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I got a burst of energy and was scrubbing floors & the bathroom :) BH started and then there was a long period of "are these BH or CX?". Went to hospy the next day at 8 days over and was induced.

Good luck!!!

I felt fine, my intergestion (sp?) had gone but I was a bit panicky because BG was dropping a baby swing to me the next day, but my waters broke half an hour after she left

I woke up in the morning and could barely walk my pelvis hurt A LOT i guess DD had engaged. I then went shopping for 4 hours and it loosened my pelvis but i was very tired. I went to bed at like 6:30pm woke up every couple of hours and then at 1:50am my waters broke.

Thanks Ladies for your stories. It just goes to show how different it is for everyone and how each labour has its different characteristics. I was alll excited the other night I woke up to pains and thought that it was all happening but it turns out that I just needed to fart! :lol:

I had what I assume was a "show" 2 weeks ago (this Tuesday) it was clear with little flecks of blood in it and then I have been wiping and getting some snotty looking CM since. I have heard that usually 2 weeks after your show is when you can expect Labour to come...

I guess around this time is when you start looking for any signals that Labour is impending...LOL I just can't help myself. Every little tingle I get I question. I have been doing a lot of resting and have spent most of the past 2 weeks pottering around the house, reading, getting on the Computer and just general fluffing around. I might go for a walk after dinner and see if that helps?

Weirdly though, I have got a nasty bout of indigestion at the moment :( bub is obviously still sitting high. I hope that he engages soon.

Maybe I should send him a message: Come on little man!! Mummy is so desperate to see you and to hold you, come out so that I can show you just how much I love you :)

lol @ needing to fart i cant really tell u how i felt as i was induced with 2 before any pains n my one i had natural didnt even know i was in labour till i found out his head was crowning lol im just as curious as u r!!
but GL ur sooo lucky!! i wish mine would come out now :( LOL

i had indigestion in labour lol

the day before i was annoyed coz i was still getting BH's lol

i to was having pre labour symptoms for about 2 weeks. i was 11 days overdue when i had a cervidil cervix ripener inserted to get my cervix ready to be induced 2 days later and the MW told me that the CCR could cause 'niggles' but shouldnt induce labour. it turns out the 'niggles' i was getting was labour but i didnt realise until the contractions really intensified!! 2 hours later i was holding my little man.

as for being induced different hospitals have different policies. i asked to be induced 6 days over but was told they wouldnt induce me until 10 days over or unless it was medically necessary. and if they do induce you they usually just do it when they can get a bed available for you. hang in there, it wont be long xx

Ahh talk about teasing!!

I thought that I was in Labour last night - for real! Having some pretty strong cramping and period like pain and couldn 't get comfortable no matter what position I was in. Was up and down all night pacing the bedroom and was getting so excited and then it all stopped! ARGH!

I had my 40 week antenatal yesterday and bub is still not engaged. My MW said that if I haven't had the baby by 41 week mark then she will come to my house for a follow up appointment and do a Membrane Sweep and then if that doesn't solve anything then I will be induced at 42 weeks. She was trying to be sympathetic but it just seems so unfair. I am so uncomfortable at the moment and I have absolutely no energy - I am worried by the time that he decides to come I won't have the energy to push him out. I am also paranoid that the same thing that happened to my friend will happen to me. My friend was made to wait until 42 weeks before they induced her and then she laboured for a day before they realised that her bub wasn't going to fit out of the birth canal and then she had to have an emergency c-section. I was so annoyed for her. If they just induced her at 40 weeks she might have had a chance on pushing him out but they made her wait and she had a horrible experience :(
I think that they should look at what is best for mother and baby and should really take into consideration how the mother is feeling rather then "policy".

So sorry for the rant ladies! You have all been so helpful but I am just getting really anxious :(

Blondie - I was induced at 40+5 and if you can avoid I would. It was horrible to say the least. With induction the intevention rates are much higher for forceps, c-section etc. I am planning to have Accupuncture this time round in the hope that it works prior to having to be induced.

I know you are awefully uncomfortable now, but it wiull be over sooner rather than later.

i agree blondie you are better of going naturally, i have never heard any woman say they had a good experience after being induced.

i was 12 days over (so almost 42 weeks) and i was 1 day away from being induced, and thankfully went into labour naturally and i got ds out just fine (bar a 3rd degree tear - due to labour being so dam quick) and had a beautiful birth experience. so stay positive, i dont think what happened to your friend will happen to you, from what you've said, i think your gonna go into, and stay, in labour really soon.

cant wait to see your BA
thinking of you hun xx

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i agree blondie you are better of going naturally, i have never heard any woman say they had a good experience after being induced.

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Well Hi, you just met one.

I've been induced with both of mine due to complications and had a fantastic experience, it hurt but so does a natural birth, I got to hold my child straight away and feed them, just like a natural birth.

The day before my first I spent in hospital thinking let today be to day because I was so over the bed rest, with the second I spent it trying EVERYTHING to go naturally but it wasn't to be.

Best of luck with whatever you choose :hug:

Thanks for the advice and encouragement ladies. I don't know why I am so anxious. Its a weird feeling as I am normally so calm? LOL

I think the Mater is pretty strict on induction so my hope of being induced at 41 weeks without a medical reason isn't going to stand - unless I suddenly get high BP or bub or I are at risk they will let me go. MW has told me to just be patient :wall: easier said than done.

You know what is also bothing me (and most likely the root of my anxiety), the constant phone calls. "Have you had the baby yet!?" I think it is making me panic a bit and probably making me think that I should have had it by now.

I really really hate that, what do people think? That you've had the baby and popped it in a box as a secret???? :o I stopped answering my phone and told people if they asked then I wouldn't tell them when the baby did come!

I had a sweep pretty much at 40 wks (DS was due on a Saturday), Almost a week later - nothing. So on the Friday I did a HUGE grocery shop (I mean, that trolley was laden with food) all by myself with the intention of cooking up a storm the next day. 730pm my ankles were HUGE. 830pm went to bed. 930pm got up to the toilet and lost my "plug". 10pm back in bed. 1am woke up just as my waters broke. Contractions started about 1/2 hour later. DS born at 7:57am that Saturday at 41 wks.

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I really really hate that, what do people think? That you've had the baby and popped it in a box as a secret???? :o I stopped answering my phone and told people if they asked then I wouldn't tell them when the baby did come!

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LOL Exactly! I should do that ;)

humm sconeonamission something like that happened to my SIL. She mowed the grass and then went into Labour. Maybe I should do a grocery shop - perhaps do a big walk of the shopping centre while I am at it.

yeah i hated those calls too i felt like saying oh crap i knew i forgot something lol

Hey Blondie, I feel your pain!! My DD was a few days early and then her brother was born at 41wks!! So I got very frustrated waiting for him...

I stopped answering my phone, stayed off fb, just basically hung out here. I was trying everything, including scubbing my floor on hands and knees!

In the end, I had a run in with a MW when I asked for a sweep and she refused, I had a big emotional meltdown at the birth centre, came home and had another big cry, rested, DH came home and I had another big cry, went to bed and then went into labour 3am!

I'd posted on here that I was so upset and a lot of people said that sometimes a big release of emotional energy like that can kick things off... One of my BB friends texted me the next morning, about half an hour after I'd given birth and said "How are you feeling today?" and I texted back "Like I just had a baby! BA incoming..." and then sent out the big "OP and DH are proud to finally announce..." :lol:

It'll happen. I know how you feel so I am allowed to say that hehehe :D

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yeah i hated those calls too i felt like saying oh crap i knew i forgot something lol

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Before I stopped answering my phone all together I actually said to some of my friends "yes I have had the baby, I just chose NOT to tell you" with a voice dripping sarcasm!