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my wife is 37 weeks and we had a false alarm hospital visit in the middle of the night. she’s being hard on herself for calling in help for the kids when she wasn’t in labor. has this happened to you? is it common?

TLDR momma knows best and y’all are doing fine.  My wife once had 3 nights in a row of false labor before 26 hours of actual labor.  We went to the hospital every time, but she worried the last night (when it really began) was also a false alarm and tried waiting to let me sleep.  Eventually, she had to physically push me out of bed onto the floor when I didn’t wake up.  I was in the middle of a brick and mortar startup and totally exhausted at the time.  Now, I’d be happy to do it all again!  Maybe not the startup, but that was a long time ago 😅

hahaha that’s amazing, and what an intense few days, 26 hour labor X_X

ty 0gz 🫂

It felt like a week by the time we finally got out of the hospital.  The neighbors in the next room had a screamer, so we didn’t get any sleep there either.  Everyone was great though.  Wife, doctors, nurses, family - all champs.  Plenty of fresh coffee, too.  It’s probably a much smoother process nowadays.  And you’ll have your own fun stories to share.  Wishing y’all many happy blessings with your new bundle of joy!

🤣 🤣 🤣 ❤️ sending the while thread to my wife

Sounds like the monitors haven’t changed much and glad everything was ok.  I’ve got a few more funny stories to keep yall entertained.

My mother held one of the kids too close to the window and it triggered the baby alarm.  Boy was she surprised when the nurses came rushing in after her.  She’s never wrong about anything, so that was a fun chat with them.

Something you probably don’t want to hear from the doctor during childbirth is “woah, he’s a load!” 😂 and that phrase repeated by the same doctor 2 years later doesn’t improve the situation much.  Pretty sure she was already aware of that fact before delivery.

Every time we had another kid, my sister-in-law reminded us that her kids were perfect quick births and one even popped right out before she had time for the epidural.  Also, that their grandmother’s first kid was 14 pounder she had at home.  Talking about a range of expectations there.

My brother-in-laws wife didn’t tell anyone she was pregnant and oh yeah that was a late Christmas surprise.  I wondered why nobody said anything about her pregnancy at Thanksgiving dinner.  It was like everyone just pretended he wasn’t going to have a seventh kid.  And his granddaughter is older than his youngest child.  If you can figure out that math let me know.  I love them all but my goodness it’s crazy to think about it. 

The best story is the one my mother-in-law tells about my father-in-law going through the Hardee’s drive through while she was in labor.  She is still angry about it and that was their 3rd and final kid for some reason.  He was so funny I can’t repeat anything he said about it in public.

we had a 12 hr all nighter w our 2nd, and i thought that was bad. prolly the scariest was the very end when the heartbeat tracker went off, doctors were out to lunch, wife suddenly said it’s time, and one of the nurses in the background of the intercom said “oh no oh no oh NO OH NO” i was a ghost 😂 

we got this! loved reading your experience, great to read smth human like that, after a little too much chatgpt