https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:51:38 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180232 Sat, 16 May 2015 06:30:55 +0000 hilsy85 2180232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No sign, except maybe feeling more tired/run down the day before? My water broke at 5am. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180216 Sat, 16 May 2015 04:13:46 +0000 AprilFool 2180216@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No signs - no braxton hicks/bloody show/water breaking but wasn't a surprise, I was 8 days overdue. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180213 Sat, 16 May 2015 02:45:52 +0000 lamariniere 2180213@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>First, water broke, but I was 39+4, so I had been expecting something to happen. </p> <p>Second, had a little bit of blood one morning when I wiped, and then my water broke a few hours later. This was completely unexpected since it was only 37+2! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180211 Sat, 16 May 2015 02:30:36 +0000 miramira 2180211@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was a long, slow process for me. Had a show and within a couple days contractions started and were constant, increasing in intensity, yet not "close enough" together until baby was born... 5 days later. My waters were broken for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180178 Fri, 15 May 2015 22:52:33 +0000 anonysquire 2180178@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1st: water broke.<br /> 2nd: woke up with contractions. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180177 Fri, 15 May 2015 22:44:26 +0000 KT326 2180177@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My back hurt and I couldn't sit for long periods of time. I thought I was just uncomfortable because I had been swelling a lot (being monitored for pre-e). But looking back I was totally in labor. I woke up at 1am and felt a pop, my water didn't break but I sprung a leak. It went fairly quickly from there.</p> <p>ETA: I was only 37w5d so I wasn't expecting to go into labor anytime soon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180166 Fri, 15 May 2015 22:18:34 +0000 travellingbee 2180166@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I mean, I was 3 days past my due date so it wasn't a surprise. I had my membranes swept that morning and bled a bit. Mucus plug had been coming out for weeks I think. And I started to get very painful, sporadic contractions every hour or so. Like, make you want to vomit or pass out type contractions. But really spread out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180118 Fri, 15 May 2015 20:34:35 +0000 birdofafeather 2180118@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>None for me at the time but in retrospect we had literally put the final touches on DD's nursery the day before and I woke up in the middle of the night feeling weird but thinking, oh no, everything is fine, I'm not in labor. I woke up in the morning, peed, and my water broke minutes later! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180114 Fri, 15 May 2015 20:28:54 +0000 Truth Bombs 2180114@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A week before my due date I lost my mucus plug. But I was still only dilated to a 1 (which I had been for a couple weeks). I never had any contractions or additional bleeding until a week later on my due date. I had my bloody show and then immediately started contracting every 4 minutes and it never slowed down. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180104 Fri, 15 May 2015 19:59:22 +0000 avivoca 2180104@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't really have any signs other than an urge to make sure I had plenty of clean underwear and take a nap. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180100 Fri, 15 May 2015 19:54:57 +0000 Tanjowen 2180100@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@andthewildones: It was interesting. :happy: My epidural didn't work, even though they were kind enough to attempt one, and my mom about shot me because they had called earlier and were planning on going out of town for the night and I had told them to go on ahead because nothing was happening! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180098 Fri, 15 May 2015 19:51:28 +0000 andthewildones 2180098@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Tanjowen: goodness!! that's a labor to remember. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180094 Fri, 15 May 2015 19:43:10 +0000 Foodnerd81 2180094@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well the main "sign" was that it was two days before my due date. Leading up I had a few bouts of contractions here and there, but nothing major or that lasted very long. I was completely sure I would go pat my due date. DH had plans to go golfing an hour and a half away. Woke up in the morning having mild contractions that kept coming, a little bit of bloody show. Debated whether DH should go golfing that day. After a few hours of contractions decided he shouldn't. </p> <p>So no, the day before I would not have thought I was about to go into labor at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180093 Fri, 15 May 2015 19:42:41 +0000 NavyRN2012 2180093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was induced for #1 &amp; 2, soon labor signs. With #3, I had a cervical check on Friday and was 4 cm, so I looked for labor signs all weekend, and had a whole lot of nothing. Sunday night I was going to take my daughter to bed and went to pick her up and my water broke- </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180088 Fri, 15 May 2015 19:39:31 +0000 Tanjowen 2180088@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought I felt one contraction on my due date, but then just had a back backache and kept brushing it off as nothing. 12 hours later my back hurt so bad DH took me to the hospital ( it was nighttime and doctor's office was closed). I was walking and talking fine and felt nothing except lower back pain. I went into sheer panic when they checked and I was 8 cm! I was in a room and pushing within an hour. </p> <p>Moral of the story: If you have any pain, go get checked and don't be stubborn like me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180084 Fri, 15 May 2015 19:36:40 +0000 fancyfunction 2180084@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had the bloody show the night before, so I had a feeling it was coming. Started getting dull cramps the next morning and figured it was imminent. My water didn't break until I was about 8cm and already had an epidural. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180082 Fri, 15 May 2015 19:36:21 +0000 matador84 2180082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS-no my water broke<br /> Dd-yes, I felt a little sick and restless and then delivered less than an hour later. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180079 Fri, 15 May 2015 19:30:26 +0000 autumn865 2180079@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD1- no real indication and water broke at 39 weeks<br /> DD2- I was 4cm the morning my water broke and was finally mentally at peace with the impending baby coming (if that makes sense) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-labor-a-surprise-or-did-you-have-all-the-signs#post-2180075 Fri, 15 May 2015 19:16:18 +0000 andthewildones 2180075@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>was your labor without any warning signs or full of impending labor cues? </p> <p>i think i'm starting a nasty oral yeast infection after starting some antibiotics for traces of bacteria in my urine at 36 weeks. i use flonase on occasion which probably didn't help and now i feel in a funk for the weekend so bring me stories! </p>