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DS-no my water broke
Dd-yes, I felt a little sick and restless and then delivered less than an hour later.

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.

Moral of the story: If you have any pain, go get checked and don't be stubborn like me.

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.

So no, the day before I would not have thought I was about to go into labor at all.

@andthewildones: It was interesting. 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!

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.

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.

1st: water broke.
2nd: woke up with contractions.

First, water broke, but I was 39+4, so I had been expecting something to happen.

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!

No sign, except maybe feeling more tired/run down the day before? My water broke at 5am.