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Just wondering what time of the day labour started for you all?? Also what were you doing at the time??
I'm sure everyone is very different!
With Louis my waters broke after teaching a dance class at around 3pm in the arvo...(I ended up being induced the next day as labour didn't really establish)...
my waters broke around 6.30am, induced next morning
Around 1.00pm for me :)
Around 1am for me....and even then the midwife told me i wasnt in labour....for me to prove them wrong!!
#1 - 3.30am (waters broke) 8am drip to induce labour - 5.06pm dd born
#2 - 5.30am first contraction - ds born at 12.06pm
#3 - 10 pm (water broke after gel induction) - 11.03pm dd born
Contractions started at 6.00pm just after i'd been for a big walk on the beach. Waters broke the next day at about 8.30pm
#1 - 11am waters broke, contractions started soon after.
#2 - weird BH type contraction all day, labour kicked in around 11pm
i had my first contraction at 4am after a HUGE fight with my then boyfriend. they were 10 minutes apart and then my waters broke at 8am... seth wasn't born til 1:40 the next morning... yay for long labour.. not.. lol
Contractions started 3:30 am fri morning. Waters broke on their own at 1:30 sat morning. I was in bed trying to get some sleep and was just dozing off when I had an almighty contraction and felt my waters break. She was born 10:30 that morning.
DS around 2am, I was induced. DD 1am was sleeping started on it's own my mum had to convince me i was in labour. lol
Ellie
DS - Waters broke 2.30am - First contraction within 5 minutes
DD - Was induced with Gel 7am - 3pm - 7am (Next Day) - Contractions started 1pm, Waters broke artificially 3pm, born 8pm.
Hopefully this one contracts come first on there own!
7pm on the dot lol. My waters broke and then contractions started within a couple of hours :)
#1 I woke at 7am with a show and it started from there.
#2 I had real contractions start at 10:30pm.
#3 I had real contractions start at 8pm.
I say real contractions as with my last 2 births I had long pre labours which stopped and started so it's hard to put a time on it. I counted it as being strong enough to get me to go to the hospital...
Thanks for sharing everyone!! It's so interesting to hear everyones different stories!
Sam - how long were your pre-labours??
Three of my labours started in the early morning (5-6 am). One started in the early evening.
My 2nd labour was with a persistent posterior baby. With him I had 2-3 days of pre-labour--very strong but irregular B-H which interrupted sleep. Then the day of, I had more symptoms & regular contractions began at about 10 pm. When I got to the birth centre a couple of hours later I was 7cm! I was so pleased because it was a first VBAC and then I knew I'd have the baby that night.
Contractions started at 4.55am (I was asleep), waters broke at approximately 6.30am, DD born at 5.31pm.
My waters broke at 10:30 pm on a thursday night, my contractions started about 1am @ 3 mins apart and DD was born at 2:24pm pn the friday
This is from when I first noticed the signs that I was heading into labour:
#1 - 9.00pm night
#2 - 9.30am morning
#3 - 8.00am morning
#4 - 1.30am night (whilst sleeping!)
#1 DD was 10.25PM Saturday, born Sunday at 1.35AM
#2 DS was 7.30PM Saturday, born Sunday at 4.36AM
I was in bed with DD and sitting on the lounge with DS when i thought 'oh god here we go again'.
My waters were broken with DD and with DS they broke just before he was born.
Both Kameron and Lachlan's labours started in hospital after being induced.
Ashton's early labour started while I was driving with my husband down to see about getting our laptop fixed. Full blown labour started about 27 hours later. I was at home and not doing a great deal.
Love
I was watching funny clips, it was about a soccer game and this guy ran up to tackle this other player going for the ball and accidently pulling his shorts to one side..... then his bits and peices were flying everywhere as he was running and he didnt notice for sometime!.... i was laughing so hard that it sent me into mild contracts which was my fiances birthday.. i was having contractions throughout the night then, the next day when i went to the tiolet what i thought was my waters broke!...
Its ironic cause i asked the midwife what happens if it broke while i was on the tiolet, how would i know the difference?... she laughed and said it wouldnt break on the tiolet.
I didnt want to call the hospital cause i was already overdue and a couple of days ago i thought my waters had broken and had to get an internal but they hadnt. I didnt want another internal and was so scared of having one that the stress stopped the contractions. lol..duh..i was having a baby an internal was going to be nothing compared to what was going to come out next!!!!!!
I was later induced that day at 2pm on the 19th novemeber and had Eamon on the 20th at 10:30am
2.30pm i started to get contractions.. waters never broke.. i was making DH a Caramel Slice at the time! Just got the chocolate on too, so he was lucky! It was gone by the time i got home from hospital the piggy!!