https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:32:42 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2216131 Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:44:39 +0000 thismustbetheplace 2216131@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One night at dinner (37w5d pregnant) I felt super motivated to make a list of last minute things to tackle before the baby came. My husband and I organized everything and set up a schedule for everything to be completed...</p> <p>I went into labor 6 hours later. :wink: Guess how many we got done before the baby came? Haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2216115 Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:30:32 +0000 LovelyPlum 2216115@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@travellingbee: here, too!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215934 Tue, 23 Jun 2015 06:46:08 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 2215934@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a week of 'false' labour, so when it actually was go time, I had some doubts. I woke up at 5am needing to use the washroom, then I lost a big piece of mucus plug. Contractions were coming every 4 minutes and I panicked. But they weren't painful, so my midwife encouraged me to get some more sleep. After a full day of contractions every 5-10 minutes, the midwife told me that they would change and get more intense (and probably further apart). sure enough, that's what happened, around 11 the next morning. She was born at 2am. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215848 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 22:20:44 +0000 getjazzy 2215848@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@travellingbee: Similar story here, my labour was slow getting started. I had false labour for a couple of weeks. I knew the contractions were real ones when they got real because they felt different, but even then I laboured for another day with real contractions before things got "real" as in, needing the hospital. It was a long and slow road with no dramatic ah-ha moment haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215844 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 22:15:23 +0000 travellingbee 2215844@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LovelyPlum: I was the same. So much false labor that I was in total denial until DH was having to do counter pressure on my hips and I was moaning to get through contractions. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215840 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 22:08:58 +0000 LovelyPlum 2215840@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sweetooth: the uncertainty was the worst part for me! I had so much false labor, weeks and weeks of it. I eventually got to the point where I refused to believe until the pain made me believe. Even then, I wasn't sure if I was just being a wuss. Nope, showed up at a 6. I hope babe gets here soon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215619 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:51:58 +0000 Torchwood 2215619@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just had LO today at 33 weeks. For the last few days I've just felt really off. Too tired, and sore, and just out of sorts. I had read that that was common in the days befor labor, so I actually thought that if I was closer to term I would be expecting to deliver very soon. Though as far as knowing for sure, my water didn't break till about a minute before she arrived, so first thing that was really definite was when I started bleeding. But I was already pretty sure from pain levels by then. (She got here about 3 hours after the bleeding started.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215615 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 18:47:56 +0000 birdofafeather 2215615@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My water broke! I knew she would be born within the next 24ish hour after that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215270 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 12:27:22 +0000 matador84 2215270@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With 1, i was 40 weeks, dilated to almost a 4 and then my water broke at 11 at night. </p> <p>With 2, I felt sick but was just at the end of my pregnancy so I wrote it off. I started having contractions hoping I could hold out until morning, then progressed really quickly, when I started bleeding I knew I had to go to the hospital. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215243 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 12:13:47 +0000 avivoca 2215243@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sweetooth: It was nice! I could do what I wanted, eat what I wanted, and just be where I wanted. My hospital was great though, they let you labor however you want (unless there are complications) and I ended up being on the monitor the whole time because I wanted to stay in bed (I had pretty much been walking for 11 hours by the time I got there). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215226 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 12:00:12 +0000 littleblessings 2215226@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sweetooth: in bed sleeping both pregnancies. I was told that because it broke on its own with my first that it wouldn't with my second. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215197 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:42:03 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 2215197@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sweetooth: I was induced with #1, so I really had no idea what to expect. But there was no guessing if it was the real thing....I woke up immediately in active labor with contractions 2 minutes apart! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215194 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:39:47 +0000 sweetooth 2215194@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: Waking up in the middle of the night for "go time" is hard! Was your experience for your second child very different from your first?</p> <p>@Peasinapod: I think that's the craziest thing when there are no indicators prior to the start of it all. I was trying to read up on contractions, timing, etc. this time but I don't know that I'll even get to that stage.</p> <p>@avivoca: You labored at home for 11 hours? Wow! I bet it was nice to be able to be at home though instead of hooked up to everything at the hospital. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215183 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:33:24 +0000 avivoca 2215183@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I knew it was time when my contractions became painful (I had lots of Braxton-Hicks) and went to the hospital after 11 hours of labor. I needed to know where I was in the labor process. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215182 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:33:21 +0000 Peasinapod 2215182@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My water broke and a couple hours later contractions started. I feel like I had no real signs before water broke </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215181 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:33:16 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 2215181@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With baby #2, I felt extreme pressure, had crazy discharge, and went #2 a lot the day before labor. Then, I woke up in the middle of the night in full-on labor. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215173 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:29:04 +0000 sweetooth 2215173@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LovelyPlum: It's so interesting how unique this process is for each and every one of us. But I also think it's interesting how much our bodies can inform us. I'm finding I'm getting mixed signals these days because I have no indicators other than what they can tell me from what they see on my insides.</p> <p>Hopefully your upper respiratory infection/strep didn't stick around long once your baby came!</p> <p>@littleblessings: I had so many people tell me that your water won't break - that's only what they show you in the movies. And boom - I was dead asleep and awakened by my water breaking! Where were you when yours broke? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215112 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:51:42 +0000 littleblessings 2215112@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My first sign was spotting for 3 days before the birth of my first. For both I truly realized it was time when my water broke. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215102 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:39:34 +0000 LovelyPlum 2215102@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not really sure what came fist. I felt really off the day I went into labor, and I had an upper respiratory infection/strep develop the same day, so it may have been unrelated. But my contractions were changing, too-more period cramps than back aches. Once that happened, I just had this feeling that the end was near, and it was! LO was born 18 hours later.</p> <p>Good luck!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215092 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:35:29 +0000 sweetooth 2215092@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bluestriped bee: Thank you! Thinking of you too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2215027 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:01:44 +0000 BSB 2215027@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sweetooth: No advice but I've been thinking of you!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-the-sign-that-it-was-go-time-for-you#post-2214985 Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:36:37 +0000 sweetooth 2214985@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For my first baby my water broke at 11pm. I was 37w5d. Not dilated at all. No signs of labor. But now, looking back, I feel like the signal was a few days prior to "go time". It was my birthday. And I felt AWESOME! I seriously didn't feel pregnant. I felt light as a feather. I felt invincible! And three days later, I was became a first-time mama.</p> <p>I'm currently 37w2d with my second baby. Last week he gave us a scare with low amniotic fluids. And then he decided to go transverse on me. After a night in the hospital with IV fluids, he turned back to heads down and my fluid was up enough that I got to go home.</p> <p>But now, I feel like I'm on high alert. I feel like no matter what, my original 7/11 due date is not happening. But I wonder what will be my sign this time around that it's "go time". I don't feel like it's going to happen today - but this time around, I feel like all signs are internal. Out of my hands. No contractions. No pain. Just potential for every doctor visit to reveal that my fluid is low again and this baby is coming now. I'm currently 4 hours away from finding out if today is my day.</p> <p>What was your "sign" that it was go time? </p>