For all of you mamas who have already delivered what were your peels or symptoms?

Question

For those of you June mamas who have already given birth, first off, Congratulations! If you're a STM you're welcome to answer this question as well.
 
How did you feel, what happened and what were you up to on the day you went into labor?
 
Was it just like any other day or did you notice anything in particular?
 
Did you feel like you were getting sick? Were you extra tired, swollen, thirsty, hungry? Was baby particularly active or a little bit more subdued? Did you feel like it was coming on all day and know something was going to happen or were you just hanging out and all the sudden... you started having strong contractions or your water broke?

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My baby had been moving more for maybe a week or so before I actually went into labor. On the day, I felt completely normal, I actually felt like she wasn't coming any time soon. What did it for me was my husband and I had sex, that has made me crampy for the entire pregnancy but this time instead of trying to go to sleep I got up and walked around my house constantly for about an hour, and the crampy feeling became contractions. I had the contractions for about 2 hours before my water broke, and 3 hours after that she was here!🤗

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I was grumpy AF because I wasn't in labor yet. Got home from a perfect ultrasound at 1:30. Went and pouted on my nursery floor because I just wanted to meet my baby. At 3:00 I started having contractions 1 minute apart spontaneously lol I feel like my baby girl got tired of my bad attitude... But I'm so glad I didn't need interventions to go into labor

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I felt tired, had a ton of discharge and lower back pressure all day.

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My baby was born Thursday morning 
But it all started Tuesday 
Went to a nail appointment and started to get what felt like intense Braxton-Hicks so didn’t think much of them apart from they was coming like every 10 15 minutes and they lasted the whole day 
Woke up Wednesday morning and went bathroom and there was a light pink tinged discharge it wasn’t my plug but I knew something was happening then as iv not had a drop of blood or anything my whole pregnancy 
I then started to feel winded in my belly and back so I took kids to school and went to get my toes painted while still having the Braxton-Hicks and the winded feeling which was horrible but anyway 
At 2.30pm i went with my husband to wash the car and when we got to the car wash and we got out to let them clean it that winded feeling become unbearable and I started crying and shaking and gipping like I needed to vomit but I didn’t 
Thats when I knew something is definitely going on here so we picked the kids up from school early and took them home as soon as I walked through the door that winded feeling hit me again I was on my hands and knees crying and hyperventilating by now so rang birth centre who said to come in 
I still was only having what I thought was Braxton-Hicks they was not painful it was the winded feeling that was painful so in my mind it was trapped wind 
But went to birth centre anyway got there about 4.30pm 
The midwife examined me and said my cervix was only open a tiny bit but was still very high up 
She said it was the start of labour so to stay a hour and see what happens ok I vomited my guts up while there told hubby to take kids home 
Midwife gave me some peppermint thing to smell which seemed to help the pain and calm me down so I lied down and nodded off for half hour
When I woke up I felt a lot better although still had that damn winded feeling 
Ok so I ended up going home for about 6pm 
The winded feeling still there and those Braxton-Hicks picking up intensity and coming more often 
I had a bath put the kids to bed and lied down myself I dozed off around 10 11pm 
I woke up about half hour past midnight still with the winded feeling 
Come 1am I vomited again that’s when the contractions really picked up so 1.15am I started timing them until 2.30 they was every 5 minutes 4 minutes ect 
Still the winded feeling was the worst 
Come 2.40 I knew I had to go back to the birth centre 
Got there for 3am that’s when it really went down 
The midwifes thought I was exaggerating and wouldn’t even give me gas and air I was in that much pain tho I couldn’t even argue with them 
Anyway I’m contracting on the bed every 5 minutes so she told me to get up and walk around yea right lol 
But I ended up on the floor on my hands and knees I vomited again then contractions started coming every minute 
Midwife still didn’t believe I was in active labour until she heard me trying to push 
She examined me and said shit the baby’s heads right there i pushed for 5 to 10 minutes and he was born at 5.05am 
Weighing 6 pounds 
38 weeks exactly

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With my first I don't remember feeling any different.  Baby was a little less active that night and I woke up to contractions a few hours later.  I was 40+3.
With my second it was just a normal day.  Was sitting down and felt a gush, went to the bathroom and lost my mucus plug and my water had broken.  Contractions started about 45mins later.  I was 38+2. 
With both the only trend I noticed was a slight increase in my BP at my most recent midwife appt.  My BP usually runs around 110, but with both it was up over 120.  5 days later I was in labor.

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With my first, it was just another day. I thought for sure I was gonna go all the way to my induction at 41 weeks but I was 40+1, and just hanging out around the house. I had been weed eating a little bit around my property early afternoon and then my husband caught me and told me to go sit down and relax inside so I went and took a bath and sat down and around 4pm I was picking up the house getting ready to go down to our friends house for dinner and contractions just started out of the blue. I made sure to keep moving around to make sure they were gonna last and keep going because I had a false alarm earlier that week. Sure enough they got stronger with each one and closer together. But it really was just out of the blue, I didn’t feel any different, didn’t have any kind of gut feeling, nothing.

For all of you mamas who have already delivered what were your peels or symptoms?

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