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July 2014 Moms
darkangel42
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Anyone's pets sense labor coming on?
darkangel42
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I've searched and found this topic in boards from previous years and just thought it'd be interesting for the pet-parents with outside babies since there are already discussions about pets sensing pregnancy in general. It's not particularly scientific and I'm not trying to predict labor through it, just wondered what other people had noticed, if anything, for curiosity's sake.
We started out with 2 cats, 2 dogs and 2 horses then adopted a cat and rehomed a dog. The horses are not particularly fussed for any human not carrying their food bucket but will follow me down the fence whenever I'm out by their area and always come over to the side where I park my car and have done all through the pregnancy.
The animals all started acting weird around the beginning of the pregnancy then mostly settled down (the horses it's hard to say as I don't really deal with them much). Recently though, they've started acting weird all over again.
The recently adopted cat, who adored me at first and always had to be touching me, now likes to know where I am but won't sit within 3 ft of me. He's never far away, still lets me pet him when I'm stood up but if I sit near him, he moves away and he sleeps on the far side of the bed from me.
The oldest cat, who would take being petted if I went up to her has now started coming to me and actually sat in my lap once, which is unheard of.
The smallest cat, who was always friendly but a little nervous, has come for cuddles various times and even slept curled up next to me which she never normally does.
The dog just stares at me. Sometimes he wanders over, looks at me for a few minutes then goes away again. This happens throughout the day.
The other dog freaked out about me being pregnant and destroyed a lot of my clothes that he'd steal from the laundry but he's gone now.
All of this has been happening over the last 3-4 days so I wondered if it's because labor is getting close? Nothing else has changed to make the creatures act weird.
My previous pregnancy, my beloved cat (a sweet-natured ball of fur who was 18 and going senile) had to be put to sleep halfway through and the new cat was outdoor/extremely antisocial so I didn't have any pets nearby last time to know how they react to labor but I'm interested to hear what other people's animals did, if anything, right before labor started.
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Re: Anyone's pets sense labor coming on?
BFP#1: 08/30/12 EDD 04/30/12 m/c 09/04/12 6wks
BFP#2: 01/27/13 EDD 10/06/13 missed m/c 02/25/13 9wks
BFP#3: 10/30/13 EDD 07/05/14 Our little dude was born on 07/10/14 @ 2:19p
My girl husky likes to lay under the crib, don't think it has anything to do with it, she's just a weirdo
Eta: not sure why kitty is upside down!
BFP#1: 08/30/12 EDD 04/30/12 m/c 09/04/12 6wks
BFP#2: 01/27/13 EDD 10/06/13 missed m/c 02/25/13 9wks
BFP#3: 10/30/13 EDD 07/05/14 Our little dude was born on 07/10/14 @ 2:19p
The picture was taken two days before I went into the hospital for premature labor contractions, the day before i went in he was also stuck next to me the same way. Thankfully they have stopped but in the waiting and wondering game now.
DD born 7.27.2014
BFP 09.2015 - m/c 10.21.2015
I'm 36 weeks. In the past 2 weeks he has become super annoying. Will NOT leave me alone. If I shut a door, he sits on the other side and cries. Sometimes he will stop if I scream his commands, sometimes I just have to ignore him. At night we have started having him sleep in the hallway, not because he's just not allowed in our room, but because he got fleas and I was trying to keep our room (which the baby will be sharing) flea free. And he lays against the door. If I get up to go to the bathroom at night I have to fight with him to shut the bathroom door and fight to keep him from coming into our room when I go back. I've been having lots of contractions over the past few days and tonight (tmi) pink tinge when I wiped. I think he knows something is coming.
My shih tzu my first pregnancy was indifferent.
When I had DS, I went to L&D and didn't come home for a few days after that. DH would text me all night saying she just sat in bed and stared at the door waiting for me to come in all night. Poor dog and poor DH for not getting any rest after I had DS.
When we come in from being out of the house for a while, she completely ignores DH and DS, comes straight to me and then goes to them. She used to do the opposite with me being greeted last. I'm pretty sure she thinks I'm gonna leave her.
I always joke with DH about how we can never get a divorce for the sake of the dog, she'd lose her damn mind.
He's also very intuitive. He will bark all night and we'll find out controlled burns are happening a few miles away, he'll be alert before we can even hear sirens, he always checks to make sure everyone's home... If any of them were to start acting weird with impending labor, he would. Heck, if he started acting off, I would ASSUME that's what was happening. He's very cautious and caring, especially for being so young still... I think he's going to end up abandoning SO and I when the baby is here to be by her side 24/7
In the last 2 weeks or so they barely leave my side. Normally the sleep in the living room on their bed, but they've even been sleeping most, if not all of the night, on the floor next to my side of the bed. I think they know what's up.