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I woke up at 8am to a contraction, thought nothing of it but I went and sat on my ball anyway, within an hour they went from 10-13 minutes apart to THREE minutes apart. I started getting nervous and thought I'd better wake DH. There was no time to even sleep or rest! I don't think I would have been able to anyway.

I was excited.... and I stayed resting as much as I could! Even when most would've been trying to push labor along with walking or bouncing I was SLEEPING! lol

Psyched and in denial! My water broke with no warning. Just boom, let go. My contractions started 20m later, and she was born about 4 hours after that! Good thing I ignored the on call ob who told me to wait another 6 (!) hours before heading in cause I'm 'a first time mom'...hey, babies don't discriminate and mine wanted out.

I was super excited when I realized they were timeable. I tried to sleep and managed to get one hour, but contractions were too painful. I ended up timing contractions for 34 hours before LO was born, so I did appreciate that one hour of sleep. I also found it difficult to sleep after she was born. I was beyond exhausted, but SO excited. I just wanted to stay awake and stare at her - and that's pretty much what I did. I was awake for almost 48 hrs before I finally sleep.

ETA: I started having timeable contractions at 4pm.

Went out to dinner at 6pm. That was interesting!

Came home and sent my husband (and parents who were visiting from OR) to bed at 9pm. I tried to sleep, but couldn't due to excitement/contractions.

I finally fell asleep from 11:30-12:30. When I woke up, contractions were pretty dang painful. I labored for at least an hour in the shower, then in different parts of the house. By 6am, contractions were 5 min apart so I woke up my h usband and parents and we drove to a hotel near the hospital (1 hr away in traffic).

My contractions slowed down at the hotel to every 7-8 min and stayed that way all day. I didn't go to the hospital until 6pm that night and I was 4-5cm at that point.

I was up and excited.

I went into labor at 10 pm. At first I was excited, awake, timing contractions, etc. But as the pain got worse the excitement went away and I wanted it to be over. But of course I was in too much pain to rest.

When I felt like it was nearing I def took a nap after dinner. BUT when it got real it woke me up and there was no going back!

@sorrycharlie: same as me! i didn't have contractions, so DH and my neighbor and i went for a walk to breakfast. contractions started by the time we got there and were regular on the walk back.

i was in major denial until i hit transition and threw up in the sink. i told DH it was time to go!

Calm, yet quietly nervous. I thought it would take a lot longer than it did, but things progressed fast. Then I was terrified of the actual labor and cried on the way to the hospital. Lol.