At how many weeks did you give birth?

My first was induced at exactly 40 weeks - natural birth.
My second was an elective caesar at 39 weeks and 4 days.
Never went into labour on my own

LauraKim - I am not sure if it is your third and because you are older. I found my pregnancy with Isabelle really hard work.

I can remember the pregnancies with Connor (Very Easy) and Georgia (Hard) but with Isabelle, I felt like my body was pushed further than it could go.

I was literally more exhausted than I had ever felt - I spent many evenings sitting in the bath leaning over with my head on the side of the bath weeping because I was sure either she would die, or I was going to die, but there was just no way I could get through this.

I seriously put it down to getting older, and already having two running around - and working full day - and an inability to say no to nothing, so I was pushing myself hard and I really felt quite dead most of the time.

Isabelle was born 10 June, I skipped my reunion which was in May, as I could not see me on a plane to JHB and then to connect to Kimberley (planes do not fly direct CT to Kimberly - who knew!!??) I knew that would be the last straw and I would end up giving birth somewhere in an emergency.

I think I was more nervous, because I felt I knew more about what could go wrong, and what was at stake.

The entire pregnancy I was very much in my head most of the time, and was more anxious and stressed than I can ever remember being.

<though nothing was wrong, and in medically I had a 'perfect' pregnancy>

I was also convinced she would come early and tried to never be far from the medi-clinic and my Dr.


Every OBGYN visit, I thought he was going to look, and go: 'wow, you are 47cm dilated, let's take you upstairs immediately and just get this little girl straight out, okay!'

After she was born - I turned to K and said, I really want a 4th, but I will never survive another pregnancy, let's just adopt .... another baby will kill me.

I seriously have never felt my body go further than it did during that pregnancy - I was amazed at how far my stomach pressed out, I was amazed at how everything was so frkn sore all the time, and I was amazed that I survived day to day .....

LK - Good luck chick, the end is in sight, and I hope it is all happiness and foot massages from here on in.

xxx

Ryan was born 40 weeks 4 days via C secton due to his size - 4.3kg

Went into labour at 39 weeks 3 days (around 11pm) and baby born the next morning at 7:30am. So 39 weeks 4 days baby was born naturally

Jordyn was born 3 days before his due date, so I was almost 40 weeks... Planned for natural, but ended up being an emergency C section dues to Meconium Aspiration

Stefan was born at 38 weeks, so I was sure that Claudia would also come a bit before her due date. But she tested my patience and only arrived at 41 weeks...

Both natural birth, 1st with pethadine 2nd with hypnobirthing.

Both started with contractions, with S saw no trace of mucous plug, with C had a pinkish show at about 39 weeks, then nothing, then huge amounts of plug came out every day for about 4 days from 40 weeks.

With Stefan my water never broke, he came out with a big splash. With Claudia the monitor showed distress in early labour so gyni broke my water to check for meconium.

Both where short labours. With Stefan I went from 2cm to fully dilated in 2 hours, with Claudia it took about 3,5 hours.

Em at 36w4d
Kate at 37w1d