Laboring at home?

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What is everyone's thoughts on laboring at home once your water breaks. Just until your contractions grow stronger and intervals shorter? This could really change as this is my first baby and I may panic the second my water breaks. However, wouldn't it be nice to take a shower, eat something, and mentally prepare yourself for a few before rushing to the hospital? Just seeing everyone's thoughts on this. :)

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Hi! We hired a doula and are planning to labour at home as long as possible! I don't want to give them any time to do anything unnecessary to me nor do I want them to clock me. Labor times vary, and I want to be able to progress at my own rate.

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I won't be because I have a very high pain tolerance. Last time I was 7 cm before I felt anything. I didn't even know I was in labor until they were prepping me for my emergency c-section and told me to breath through my contractions. I told them I wasn't having any contractions and they looked at me like i was an alien. The nurse told me I was 7 cm dilated and I freaked out. I went to work that day and everything! So I won't be laboring at home because I will probably be farther along the process than I realize.

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Depends on your contractions. When my water broke active labour started within 10mins. So contractions every 4min or so. I got in the shower but I was having a home birth. If I was planning a hospital birth I would have gotten in the car instead. Food was the furthest thing from my mind. 
But like I said, depends if active labor starts right away or not

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My preference is to labor at home as long as possible. I have very long labors and with my first 2 my water didnt break until pushing. However I also had gbs with them so had my water broken early on I likely would've gone in earlier. I labored at home about 14hrs before i went in.

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I am going to until I really think I should go to the hospital. My first baby I went in at 2 1/2 cm and that made my stay a heck of a lot longer and it was no fun!

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I agree. The hospital is literally 5 minutes from me. So I plan on going as long as I can at home. This is my 3rd baby and I feel like once you enter that hospital they are constantly trying to rush everything instead of letting the body do its thing.

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I'm planning on it too, my house is right at the entrance to the hospital so even if I didn't want to the hospital would probably keep sending me home anyway. Hopefully once the contractions are around the seven minute apart ( second baby) I will walk down to the hospital.

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Yes! This is what I am hoping to do. In the process of finding a Doula right now and we live less than 5 min from the hospital I will be going to so I feel comfortable staying home for as long as possible.

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Id love to labor at home as long as possible. We live about 30-40minutes away from the hospital so that's the only things that worries me lol i feel like I'll know what to do when the time comes. I try not to think too hard on it.

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Im a FTM as well. And I would like to labor at home and do all the things you are speaking of but I think I will panick😳 this is our rainbow baby so I have a lot of snxiety surrounding the whole pregnancy. On the other hand I really don't want to be in the hospital for what seem like forever waiting. Hopefully me and hubby can keep our heads

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