My contractions started around 4:30 am last time so I got a full night's rest. Then I labored at home all day until 8 pm so I took a lot of naps. That was pretty ideal in terms of me being well rested.
I really fear that I'll go into labor at the end of a work day when I am totally exhausted this time around. That would not be ideal!
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts
Mine started around 8am, I slept 10 hours! I got VERY lucky.
coconut / 8681 posts
My water broke at 11:45pm and I hadn't gone to sleep yet. I was pretty tired throughout labor- I gave birth at 3:26pm.
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
Nope! I was induced on a Tuesday night with cervidil and I was too excited to sleep...and I was on HB! Haha..
http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/tuesday-night-post-a-thon
I needed a second dose of cervidil in the morning and I was exhausted when my contractions started....it was a long day that led to the next morning. LO was born around 5am on Thursday by C-section...I was running on fumes and in desperate need of quality sleep!
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
Mine started around 7am, but I'd only gotten maybe 3 hrs of sleep before then. He was born at 1:30 the NEXT afternoon. I'm still trying to catch up on sleep, lol.
honeydew / 7687 posts
No, labor started at 11:30 PM when I went to go to bed 
I was so tired by 8 am I couldn't stop shaking - part of why I got an epidural! (which was amazing)
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
Kind of... I had been on bed rest so I was spending a lot of time sleeping. I would sleep 5-6 hours at night, be awake for a couple hours, take a 2 hour nap, then up for a few more hours and that was the entire last week of my pregnancy. I hadn't taken my nap of the day when I was called in for an induction, but I'd slept fairly well. I was exhausted when it was all over, but couldn't sleep when I finally had the opportunity to.
grapefruit / 4582 posts
Nope! I'd been up since 6 am on a sunday. went to a friends party and did shopping at Home Depot in active labor! I kept tellin myself it was just gas. At 11 days late I was convinced I'd never give birth. Needless to say DD was born at 3:13 on Monday with no sleep....
pomegranate / 3516 posts
My contractions started at 6:45am and I had gone to bed around 10 so I was pretty well rested. I slept maybe an hour in the hospital after she was born though.
grapefruit / 4136 posts
I was more rested that day than I had been for a long time! I had the day off from work (I worked until the day BEFORE haha) so it was time to relax for me 
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
@autumnlove: aaahhh I didn't know that! an almost post-a-thon baby!
coconut / 8305 posts
No! I had 5 nights of false labor from 1 or 3 am till 7 am then 37 hours of consistent contractions just to get into active labor with 8 more hours on top of that before P was born. I rested between contractions & in early labor while I could (we did NOT push labor along) but I was still pretty exhausted by the end. Great part was the awesome hormone & endorphin change I felt immediately given I was unmedicated & I wasn't tired at all when P was born!
pomelo / 5789 posts
Yes thank goodness. Contractions started at 3:30am and I kept sleeping until 6
admin / watermelon / 14210 posts
yes because i took a nap just before i went into labor with both kids. it's like my body just knew! i went into labor around 5pm with both kids.
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
Not at all. I slept terribly the night before, went in for a routine visit, and got sent over to L&D for an induction because of high blood pressure.
pomegranate / 3983 posts
Not really. Water broke at home at 5:30 p.m. I'd been out doing errands earlier and hadn't been sleeping well in the days before.
grapefruit / 4800 posts
No, it was a big mistake on my part. My contractions started around 3 am and I was all 'is this labor, should i wake DH, no I should let him sleep till it's time'. And then during the day I was nervous and had a Drs appt and then took a long walk and went out to dinner and then contractions just kept getting worse. I couldn't sleep that night because the contractions were getting semi painful and I was nervous and when I finally decided to lay down my water broke at 4 am.
bananas / 9357 posts
I went into labor at 4 am but it was the one night I had stayed up til 1am. So I got some rest.
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
First time I slept 1 hr before going into labor at 2am
This time I was we'll rested! had a good night's sleep before heading to the hospital
pear / 1879 posts
Sadly, no. Labor started (as far as I was aware) around 2am and I hadn't fallen asleep yet. We went to the hospital at 4:45am and he was born at 1:13pm- no sleep at all because I was too excited!
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