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Mothers , Where did you go into labour?

you here about people going into labour on a train or somewhere miles away from a hospital , just wondering were you went into labour?
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  • jaylee3
    jaylee3 Posts: 2,127 Forumite
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    Hasn't this already been posted on 'moneysavingmums?' :huh:
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  • onlyroz
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    First time my waters broke while in bed in the early hours of the morning. I went to hospital but nothing much happened for hours so they sent me home. I went back to hospital in the evening and my son was born in the early hours of the following morning.

    I was induced with my daughter and she appeared two hours later - I almost had her in the hospital corridor between the ward and the delivery suite but I just about managed to get to the bed with a few minutes to spare.

    I have a niece who was born in the back of a car and a colleague whose daughter was born in the back of an ambulance in the Chobham Co-op car park.
  • mum2one
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    my waters broke when i was at home, - sat on the loo of all places... into hospital, sent home as only 2cm dialated, - back in 3am, dd was born at 11.55am.
    xx rip dad... we had our ups and downs but we’re always be family xx
  • bossymoo
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    With my first I sprung a leak on my way out to the car. I was about to go shopping (bored!) - it wasn't much of a leak so after being checked I was sent home. Nothing happened of its own accord so they induced me the next day.
    With my second I was all over the place, contractions but irregular - they blamed it on a water infection. My waters never went with her, but in the early hours it all got a bit much so we went in and just as well, she arrived less than 20 min after we got there, still with her membranes intact!
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  • lady1964
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    At a hotel in London where we were staying overnight on DH's Xmas do.

    We'd been to the theatre, had dinner & went to bed around 11pm. I woke up around 4am, we called for an ambulance around 5.30am, got taken to the hospital after checking they would take me & I gave birth at 8.10am.

    I was a week early but had luckily taken my hospital bag with us 'just in case'.

    The hotel sent champagne & flowers to the hospital and DH's colleagues were gobsmacked :-)
  • Amara
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    Went to hospital at 7pm and been sent back, 1cm dialeted. Had a Mc Donald's, came back home at 9pm and my waters broke straight after. An ambulance took me back to the hospital at 0.30am and my son was born ( with forceps) 4.45am.
  • tanith
    tanith Posts: 8,091 Forumite
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    At my Mums with my first, in the kitchen with my second and in the living room with my third...
    Is there a point to this question?
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  • wendz86
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    At home, I then walked round sainsburys having mild contractions and was still in labour hours later. Hospital let me stay in about 14 hours after it started.
  • MrsSave
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    My waters went on the loo whilst I'm hospital (borderline high blood pressure/headaches and was almost 2 weeks overdue). Plan was to induce me the next morning, but by then I'd reached 2cm. Asked if I could go home to relax. Was allowed, contractions started a couple of hours after getting home.
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