Labour stories from moms who had no Braxton Hicks or any other signs?

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I’m 39 weeks and I’ve had absolutely no signs of labour. No Braxton Hicks ever or contractions, and “nothing is happening” with my cervix per my OB today 😭. What have your experiences been in similar situations? Did it all just happen at once or did you have to be induced late?

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So my due date was December 7th
 I had no signs of anything, no pains, no Braxton Hicks, no plug, nothing. I was walking around Walmart with my MIL and SO and all of the sudden I got a sharp pain in my stomach like a extremely bad period cramp, then they started happening every 3 minutes! Constant contractions out of literally no where. So I tell them time to go to hospital my water didn't break or anything, I got there got checked was at 7cm! By this time I literally couldn't breath or talk thru contractions so I asked for epidural, not even 30 minutes into being at the hospital I got the first epidural and had to get a second because only half my body was numb. 5 minutes after I got the second shot they checked me I was at 10 and baby's head was right there so she asked if I could push , I did, 3 pushes and she was here. No tearing, no stitches, no poop lol, I had a perfect birth and was walking about 10 minutes after my epidural wore off.

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With both of my previous labors, I had no signs of labor and was only 1 cm prior to labor. I was patient though and waited for labor to start on it's own, knowing my body would do it when it was time. I'm so thankful, as both labors we're 3 hours from start to finish, but I was 41.6 and 41.2 weeks. I wouldn't trade the time I had with baby on the inside and the length of my labors! Keep hanging in there and know your body was made for this and labor will come at just the perfect (and unknown!) time!!

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With my first I had no Braxton Hicks and was not dialated or effaced at all. I went to my check up when I was one day overdue and she said there was still nothing happening but the baby was low, which had been for weeks and weeks.
I went for an NST and they said I was having contractions, but I didn’t feel them.
I went home and went 4 miles on the treadmill just walking, and afterwards I had bloody show. Went on with the rest of my day/night as normal as nothing was happening. We went to dinner, watched a movie and even went mini golfing.
I inserted evening primrose vaginally as I had been doing the last few weeks as well as drinking red raspberry leaf tea, which id also been drinking since about 36 weeks and went to bed.
I’d been laying in bed for around a half hour, wasn’t asleep yet, when I felt a contraction. Felt another. Labor had started.
I was in labor throughout the night but tried to shower early in the morning thinking I would be headed to the hospital, but the contractions died down and were not as regular.
My husband went to work in the morning and I labored on and off that day. We ended up heading to the hospital around 5 or 6 pm and I was at a 4.
Labored that whole night and had my baby girl at 8:46 AM after over 2 hours pushing.

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With my first I never felt BH at all. Never had any signs of labor until 40w+3. I started having period cramps, lost my plug, then full blown contractions all within a few hours.

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Following! I’m going through the same thing right now!

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Same here!

Labour stories from moms who had no Braxton Hicks or any other signs?

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