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Uh oh... I don't have one. I'm interested in hearing what other people's plans were now!

Well...

If we were asleep when they started I planned to let DH sleep... which I did. I went all night and all the next day with me not waking DH & only casually mentioning I was having them.

If it were during the day I would let DH know but wouldn't tell him to come home until it was getting hard for me to function through them (given it would take DH less than an hour to get home).

We didn't have a LO to care for yet, but I was to call him as soon as my contractions started. And I would have! I went into labor at 10:30 at night though.

How are your BH contractions feeling? Are they painful? I had a bunch of them the weeks leading up to labor...one day they were pretty consistent, but nothing that I thought was actual labor. When I had my first, full-blown contraction, man I knew it was labor!

@NaturallyCathy: Depending on if she's in a meeting at work or not, my mom could probably come get me - she works 20 minutes from my home. Though... I'm planning on working up until I go into labor so... if I stay home because I think something might be up, I could always tell Hubs not to carpool (or to work from home). I probably should be more worried about what I'll do if I go into labor at work and have to drive myself home or something!

@MrsBrewer: Yeah, I think I probably should do that! I'll talk to him about it tonight! I don't know why this never even occurred to me (or him)!

We have more of a plan for ds for labor...my mom will pick him up from school if I head to the birth center. If it's at night, she'll come get him or stay with him here, and if he's at his dad's for the weekend, we'll tell him to drop off ds at my mom's house Sunday night...he's already in on this plan, too. For DH, I'll call him when things feel like they're starting up if he's at work. He's about 30-40 minutes away, so I'll have my mom take me to the birth center, if things get going fast and he'll meet me there. I'm gonna try to give him time to come home, though. We're just hoping she comes on a Saturday, lol.

@NaturallyCathy: because this is our 2nd time at this, DH wants me to call him right when I get my first set of "real contractions" bc 2nd labors are supposed to progress so much faster.

We haven't really talked about this. I am planning on working up until I have her, so if I think I am in labor during the day I would just call him and put him on notice. He only works about 20, 30 mins in traffic, away from the house. Then we aren't even 10 miles from the hospital

@Adira: Yeah, I would have him stop car pooling as well, just to be safe.

Our plan is to labour at home for as long as possible and to carry on with "life as usual" for as long as I can until I need to really stop and focus on contractions.

If DH is at work, I will call him to check in and keep him informed as things progress. I will let him know as soon as I feel like I need him home for support. He works 10 minutes from home.

My doctor told me to go to the hospital if my water broke or when my contractions were 5 minutes apart for an hour, and to call them when I was on my way.

@NaturallyCathy: Oh poop That's no fun at all. Hope you have an easy labour regardless!

@NaturallyCathy: Ah, I wasn't GBS positive so that wasn't an issue. I'm sure they would have been fine with me going earlier, but were just giving me guidelines.