Where and what were you doing when you went in to labor?

Answer 1

I was asleep in bed and woke with a huge contraction. I sat on the floor for an hour trying to breathe. I was alone at home and couldn't get hold of my other half.

I went to the bathroom and my water broke spectacularly. I was contracting constantly without letup.

I called the hospital but couldn't speak. My other half arrived home and called the midwife. I was sat on the bathroom floor.

The midwife arrived, I got up, refused the gas and air, walked into the bedroom, sat down on the floor and pushed my daughter out in nine minutes. I yelled once. She weighed 7lb 4.5oz. I then fed her to deliver the placenta.

I got up, used the bathroom, walked downstairs, the midwife left and we sat on the sofa, ate KFC and called relatives.

From water breaking to delivery was 49 minutes. She is my first baby and perfect.

I would recommend a home birth to anyone.

Good question by the way.

Answer 2

My first labour started very quietly while I was lying down, and my belly was being massaged by my cousin. The Women in my Family all had memories of "pain" for most of their Births, so they could not have advised me well. I should have stayed Home longer, where I was much more comfortable and reassured than the dreary hospital space in which I felt very strange. Those single hospital beds are ridiculous instruments, which are neither useful, nor inspiring for Labour ! I think lying on one's back actually prolongs Labour and makes it far more unbearable than it actually is. Unfortunately, I had a Midwife who was having a bad night, probably because she was tired. She told me, as I was trying a balancing act on my knees, trying not to fall off the "plank" :
"I don't want you to do it this way !" To this day, I despise her Manner - that was 20 years ago. These things stay with you my Dear... I wish I had been able to gather enough focus at that point to answer : " Listen here, I will Labour as I please. If you are having a bad night - it ain't my problem."

Just before going into Labour the second time, I had an idea it was going to happen. My Husband knew; he had cooked a beautiful meal that evening - and he is a fine cook - but I could not eat. This time, after a horrific First Birth, I had put myself in very, very different hands and stayed Home in my very clean, cosy room. So, after Supper, my very sweet Hubby took me to bed. Surely, enough I felt the familiar "happenings" down there. This experience of Birth and Labour is in another league than the first. In fact, it is as though there are completely different things. During my second labour, I felt like a Queen, but then one is a Queen in one's bedroom at that point. There is no chance anyone is going to indulge in one's bad mood or whatever restrictive measures exist. This Birth centered on me and the process taking place - not the People around me. I did not have to fit in with anything - only that of the process. My rythms were respected and I was fully in charge, thanks to the calm reassurance of my Midwife and her non-invasive manner. She is the Good Fairy who made it possible for my Womanhood to blossom the way it has.

My third Labour started in the middle of the night, without a doubt as to what was going on. I felt quite a rush and knew somehow - because you know instinctly - that Baby was on the move. This Labour was the best : it was great ! It was very short (2 hours) and I found a rather comfortable position and...obeying my Midwife, who in turn, was obeying the process of My Birth, my little baby Girl arrived. That Labour would be like another Gold Olympic Medal for an Athlete. For me, it is even more, much more than that.

Answer 3

I was sleeping and dreaming about sitting on the toilet going pee and woke up to realize I wasn't even in the bathroom, got up holding myself thinking I was going to pee my pants lol and made it 2 feet and there all came...that was 7:55am but my labor didn't actually start until 10:30 that night and I had my son at 12:50am = 17 hours later.

Answer 4

In the hospital exam room, the midwife was examining dialation... and BAM here comes labor(at 4:00am)... 2 hours 15 minutes later Aurora June was born. It was quick, we were rather lucky to already be there.

Answer 5

It was around 9:30 pm and I was watching TV.Actually we just rented a paper view movie.My ex-husband was such a jerk he said we would go to the hospital after the movie was over because he was not wasting 3.99.At the time it wasn't funny but now as I think back I laugh!!!I got to the hospital around 10:30pm .Only because my ex-husband got nervous because my contractions jumped from 15 minutes to 3 minutes apart.My son was born at 2:10 am.It went quicker than I thought.

Answer 6

i had been forced to come into town by my mother to my aunts house. i had just took a long hot shower and i curled my hair which i spent a hour and a half on when i sat down on the couch. my aunt and uncle came in rubbed my belly and said we about to become great aunt and uncle when i said "no I'm not, I'm not ready for any kids the doc said it just water and it will go down" when my water suddenly broke. i thought i had peed on my self until the pain came real quick and i thought i was dying when my mom came in and she started screaming you are you really are and rushed me to the ER. luckily i was one block from the ER. i didn't know i was pregnant. i had just went to the ER the day before when the doc said i was holding water and prescribed me some water pills. i hadn't even gain any weight, felt any movement and was having periods regularly. i had to have the baby naturally without any medication, which i don't recommend to anyone. it hurt like hell. my baby girl was born healthy in 30 minutes from the time my water broke to i reached the labor and delivery floor she was out. it was so strange because my stomach was huge and the nurse thought i was lying and crazy when i told her i just came there the night before and i was told i wasn't pregnant until she check the chart it said i had came the night before and didn't look pregnant and wasn't pregnant to them.

Answer 7

baby #1 I was in the hospital, I had been in for 4 weeks with pre-eclampsia

baby #2 I was scheduled to be induced (she was late) and we had an ice storm and we were making jokes about me going into labor while the guys were trying to dig out the car and sure enough I started in.. took 4 people to push the car out of the yard

baby #3 Was at home, knew I was in early labor, stood up though I felt my water break so told my husband to get ready to go, got out into the kitchen to get my bag and realized it wasn't water it was blood, called an ambulance.. had a placental abruption..baby was ok

babies 4 and 5.. went to see OB for checkup, had already spent one 24 hr period in hospital due to pre-eclampsia, had a bp check, was bad, was sent to hospital, waited for OB to arrive, checked my bp and blood work and 20 mins later my twins were born via emergency c-section.

Answer 8

With my first I was sleeping and woke up to go to the bathroom and started having contractions..She was born 2hrs. 45 min. later.

With my second I cleaned house all day and and went to the hospital at 2:00am and he was born at 10:15am..

#3 Otw August 3rd!

Answer 9

I'm always induced due to problems never get the chance to go by myself.

Answer 10

I was sleeping. It was 2 in the morning and I awoke when my water broke.