good morning

With DD1 my waters broke at 3.30am and she was born almost 48 hours later at
2.18am. With DD2 my waters broke at 3am and she arrived 9 days later at
11.08pm so nearly in the morning again I had almost constant
contractions for those 9 days and they were certainly more painful in the
night! But then again pain always does seem worse at night.



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Pip

My girls :
DD1 Jasmine - 5 weeks early - 21 March 02 -
"I'm a big girl cause I go to school kindy"

DD2 Abby - 8 weeks early - 3 Feb 05 -
Took her first steps on her 1st Birthday.

"Yes you can drive me insane just by talking to me!"


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"Denise~*" wrote in message
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Anonymama wrote:

I have the impression that babies like to be born in the godforsaken
early hours -- my first was born at four o'clock in the morning (after
I'd been in labor for one night, one day, and another night). Is that
really how things are, or am I mistaken? And if so, why is it that
serious labor so often happens overnight? Given a choice I'd rather get a
good night's sleep, labor during the day, and have the kid in the
evening...

DS's water broke at 3:00 am, but didn't have him until about 14 hours
later, just in time for dinner.

On 2006-03-28 01:00:15 +0800, Anonymama said:

I have the impression that babies like to be born in the godforsaken
early hours -- my first was born at four o'clock in the morning (after
I'd been in labor for one night, one day, and another night). Is that
really how things are, or am I mistaken? And if so, why is it that
serious labor so often happens overnight?
Given a choice I'd rather get a good night's sleep, labor during the
day, and have the kid in the evening...

Cause it's so nice to have a baby in the dark! Less chance of pesky
visitors too soon after the birth, too

Jo
--
Woman, Wife, Mother, Midwife

Anonymama wrote:
I have the impression that babies like to be born in the godforsaken
early hours -- my first was born at four o'clock in the morning (after
I'd been in labor for one night, one day, and another night). Is that
really how things are, or am I mistaken? And if so, why is it that
serious labor so often happens overnight?

Given a choice I'd rather get a good night's sleep, labor during the
day, and have the kid in the evening...
--

Most animals will give birth during the night. They are vulnerable to
predators when in labour so better to do it under the cover of
darkness.
Of course, that's not so relevant for humans, but if you're having a
hospital birth you're less likely to get stuck in traffic, if you're at
home you're less likely to disturb other members of the household (I'm
thinking of siblings).

My labour started in the evening, I laboured during the night and gave
birth mid morning.

Mary Ann

"Anonymama" wrote in message
...
I have the impression that babies like to be born in the godforsaken
early hours -- my first was born at four o'clock in the morning (after
I'd been in labor for one night, one day, and another night). Is that
really how things are, or am I mistaken? And if so, why is it that
serious labor so often happens overnight?

Given a choice I'd rather get a good night's sleep, labor during the
day, and have the kid in the evening...

Or better yet have the kid in the morning.

With #4 I had a full nights sleep, woke at 6 am and was in labor. I had him
before the morning was done at 10:40am! Now THAT was weird (and very
nice!). I felt like I wasn't done, and I had more to do. I was done,
though, and felt quite energized.

With #1 I went into labor at 5 am and had her around 8 pm. My second labor
started at 2 am and I had her at 3 pm. My third was my doozy all-nighter
and started at 8 pm and went until 10:30 am the next morning. I was so
knocked out from my all night labor! I cried when the sun came up.


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Joy

Rose 1-99
Iris 2-01
Spencer 3-03
Grant 9-05 www.caringbridge.org/visit/grantphilip

Anonymama wrote:
I have the impression that babies like to be born in the godforsaken
early hours -- my first was born at four o'clock in the morning (after
I'd been in labor for one night, one day, and another night). Is that
really how things are, or am I mistaken? And if so, why is it that
serious labor so often happens overnight?

Given a choice I'd rather get a good night's sleep, labor during the
day, and have the kid in the evening...

Me too.

With my first, I started labor on a Saturday night around 9 p.m., went
to the hospital about 10 p.m. on Sunday, and had my daughter at about 5
a.m. Monday. It took me weeks to recover from the exhaustion.

With my second, I started labor at 3 a.m. and had the baby at 5 p.m.,
which meant that essentially my sleep was not disturbed. I felt better
the next day than I did two weeks after my daughter was born.

Clisby