Accidental home birth: 511 rule for labor didn’t work 😅

Well folks just a heads up the 511 rule for contractions are not a for sure thing. I accidentally had a home birth last week. How? OB always told me to head to the hospital when you reach 511 : contractions 5 minutes apart, 1 minute in length, for 1 hour. With my first baby I was only at 4cm when we reached the 511 cadence and went to the hospital too early. We’re lucky they let me stay and my baby was born 8 hours later after 3 hours of pushing. Second baby contractions were all over the place. 8, 15, 6, 25 minutes apart all under a minute in length. Never reached 511… I had 2 or 3 really strong contractions and we decided to load the car. Then my water broke and all hell broke loose. Baby was out within like 5 minutes. Delivered by my mom and husband. Definitely was not the plan but luckily we’re both healthy and doing great 😊 This is just a reminder that it never hurts to go in early before reaching 511! If you’re not sure if you’re in active labor, go in and get checked!

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in our community

Anyone else up feeding their Bebe?

As above. Trying so hard to keep my eyes open

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Oh my God, oh my God I hope this is not true!!!! I’m kind of scared

I’ve been throwing up and taking a shit all night!!! I just hope that it’s not what I think it is

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Small head reported following 20 week scan

Has anyone else had it flagged that their baby is in the bottom 5th percentile for head size?

They said everything was fine whilst we were in the scan and then I got a phone call the next day saying that it’s on the small side and we’re being referred to a paediatric specialist at St George’s. Has anyone else had this and how did things go??

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Would you bring 9 week old to a family party of 35+ people?

These are also people who will want to pass the baby around and get a turn to hold him. He just got his 2 month shots two days ago

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Exercise 6 weeks after c section

What movement did people start to introduce? I won’t do anything too vigorous until I’ve seen the pelvic physio as I don’t want to compromise anything that may have been extremely weakened through pregnancy! But just wondering what types of classes/movement people started off with?

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Is this normal??

I’m 29 weeks pregnant and having really aching legs and they’re all lumpy and swollen. Above the knee and behind the knee . Should I be worried ? My legs have never looked like this up until a few days ago. ??

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