https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:21:25 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-536055 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:43:51 +0000 LittleFox 536055@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had contractions sporadically (15-30 minutes) at 5:30am, but didn't want to get my hopes up in case they went and away. I knew it was the real deal by that night (10 minutes) , and they were close enough together to go to the hospital about 24 hours after they started. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-535847 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 07:06:07 +0000 dagret 535847@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I lost my mucus plug first thing Sunday morning, and started having contractions in church around 10 am. They started getting painful and close together around 1 pm, I'd guess? My water broke as we were walking into the hospital around 545 on Monday morning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-535792 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:28:17 +0000 autumn865 535792@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My water broke in the middle of the night. Contractions started after when they started me on pitocin. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-535736 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:31:51 +0000 Penny Lane 535736@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My first sign was my water breaking at 1:30am. I thought I'd peed, but it just kept coming. </p> <p>Immediately after that I started feeling menstrual like cramps that were exactly 5 min apart, so there was not really any way to convince myself that I wasn't in labour! </p> <p>I must have been having contractions that I couldn't feel before that though, because by the time I got to the hospital (at 2:30am) I was already over 3cm dilated </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-535731 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:27:01 +0000 wheres_c 535731@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had the same experience as @mrskc. Menstrual type cramps with a rhythm, that slowly intensified. Water broke while bouncing on my ball a few hours later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-535418 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:24:31 +0000 Kemma 535418@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My waters broke at around 530am one morning and I started getting what felt like period pain, but worse. I was eight days overdue so I was pretty sure it was the real deal! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-535052 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:27:16 +0000 Sweet T 535052@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My water broke at 3:30 in the morning! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-535046 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:24:17 +0000 MamaMoose 535046@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My labor came out of no where on my due date. My first two contractions were 4minutes apart and lasted a minute each. After this went on for an hour I knew it was the real deal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-535042 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:23:13 +0000 sorrycharlie 535042@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my water broke. lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-535029 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:17:52 +0000 FarmWifeGina 535029@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Both time with contractions. Lol. But I could tell they were contractions and not BH because they wrapped around from front to back. Soon after timeable contractions started, I had lots of stringy, mucousy discharge. That's the way both of my labors have started. My first labor started at somewhere around 41 weeks (we have no idea when my actual EDD was, but the midwife could tell by looking at my son and my placenta that he was actually a week overdue- for all we know, I could have been 43 weeks, lol) and my second labor started at 39 + 4. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-535013 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:09:47 +0000 keiki_mama 535013@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine started after my water broke. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-534976 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:57:26 +0000 birdofafeather 534976@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine started with my water breaking! I started having contractions about an hour later after going on a walk to breakfast (about a mile away). R was born less than 7 hours after my water broke! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-534809 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:03:46 +0000 Phillybaby2013 534809@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks everyone - this is super helpful!!! I'm 39 weeks and have been cramping all day off and on with some serious BH thrown in. I don't think it's anything serious but was curious how other people's labors started and progressed. Hopefully I'll know the real deal is happening soon enough! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-534635 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:29:56 +0000 BelugaBean 534635@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was laying in bed at around 6:45am when I heard and felt a pop. It turns out, it was my mucus plug falling out and my contractions pretty much started immediately. They started at 10 minutes apart and were between 3-5 minutes apart by 2:30pm. </p> <p>I realized what was going on when I was feeling the contractions regularly. I also called the nurse at my doctor's office to make sure. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-534523 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:54:58 +0000 rachiecakes 534523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went in to be induced, they started with cervidil to soften the cervix before they started pitocin. A few hours after inserting the cervidil, I turned over in bed and my water broke. Labor started immediately after my water broke, no pitocin needed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-534493 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:42:12 +0000 Honeybee 534493@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With my first, my water broke and then I started having strong contractions about 2 minutes apart. With my second, I started out with contractions 2 minutes apart. When that lasted longer than 5 hours, I decided this was not the false labor I'd been having for the last week and went to the hospital to get checked out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-534470 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:34:18 +0000 Mrs. Grizzly Bear 534470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My water broke around 8:00 am the day before my son was born. Made an appointment with my doctor to make sure it was my water, it was. They said go home, rest, eat, let them know when the contractions started. If they didn't start on their own, I was supposed to go to the hospital at 8:00 next morning. Contractions never stabilized, not even after they started induction through pitocin. Henry was born at 4:28 that afternoon and they said it was easy birth, quick, even with the pitocin and lack of stable contractions. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-534461 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:30:28 +0000 lovehoneybee 534461@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well, I woke up with back pains that I couldn't sleep through around 7am. They were coming regularly, but pretty far apart (like 15-20 minutes). They stayed that far apart for a while...I sent DH to work at 11. He came home early at 6pm and they were about 8 minutes apart and getting more painful. By 11p they were coming every 4 minutes and lasting about a minute and a half. I went into L&amp;D and they sent me home because they stopped. I came home and they started coming every 2-3 minutes and I was in so much pain I couldn't think. I went back in to L&amp;D at 3am and had progressed to 5cm so they admitted me. Until that moment I didn't really believe I was in labor, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-534456 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:29:07 +0000 Bao 534456@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I woke up at 8:00am feeling uncomfortable and so I bounced on my ball. They were about every 7-10 minutes apart for about an hour but were getting more and more painful. At 9:00am they all the sudden were 3 minutes apart so I woke up DH and he got up and sat on the couch, I asked him what he was doing and he looked at me all disoriented because I was so calm he didn't realize I was having contractions and needed to leave ASAP! That is how it started :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-534453 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:28:04 +0000 Mrs. Bee 534453@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i started having contractions close together right away with both kids. they were so regular i knew it was the real thing. my water broke with charlie 5 hours or so after contractions started. they broke my water with olive. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-534451 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:26:57 +0000 Running Elley 534451@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My water broke and it wasn't a big gush, just a constant trickle. I was pretty sure it was my water right away but I waited to make sure it continued before I woke DH. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-534445 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:26:06 +0000 mrskc 534445@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had no signs of labor until I woke in the middle of the night and had to go #2. Then light menstrual like cramps began and I started noticing they had a rhythm. I knew it was real when a shower didn't help and they kept getting more intense. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-534441 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:25:31 +0000 2PeasinaPod 534441@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had been cramping all day, but it was nothing new as I was cramping all week. I went with my SIL that night to get pregnancy pedicures (she was also pregnant, but about 5 months earlier than me). I got home that night and went to bed around 10:30, and I had a really painful contraction in bed as I laid down. I thought that it might have been a contraction, but wasn't sure. About 5 minutes later, I had another one. I downloaded a contraction app just to start timing them, and it was definitely the real thing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-534424 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:22:42 +0000 runsyellowlites 534424@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had bouts of "false labor" for 5 nights, then the 6th night (Monday night to Tuesday day) they didn't stop.... they didn't really get closer together either. Finally that night (Tuesday night) I called my MW and let her know I was in early labor after I had my bloody show. My contractions stayed the same through the night and that next morning we all decided that it was the real deal... slow moving, but definitely it (Wednesday)! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-did-your-labor-start#post-534407 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:18:40 +0000 Phillybaby2013 534407@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Whether your water broke right away or you were having contractions every 30 min... How did it start for you and when did you realize it was the real deal?? </p>