With #1 I think my contractions got serious after dinner and we headed to the hospital around 3am. So I labored at home for around 5-6hrs.
Curious how long I'll last at home this time for #2!
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Somewhere around 12 hours.
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0 hours. I was induced! I'm hoping to avoid an induction this time around and labor at home. The hospital is only 5 minutes away.
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17 hours before we went to the hospital the first time, then another 2 hours after we were sent home before we went back. I was in denial that I was in active labor during those last 2 hours, though, because I'd been sent home....I insisted on going back to the hospital and was going to ask to be induced, because I couldn't take the pain anymore!
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My water broke around 5 AM, but I didn't have any contractions. So if you count that, I guess 8 or 9 hours, because I went to my regularly scheduled doctor's appointment that afternoon. When she tested me and found that my water had broken, she had me go immediately to be admitted.
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My contractions started around 7:30 a.m. They were serious around noon. I checked into the hospital at 5:00 p.m. So from the serious contractions to the hospital was about 5 hours.
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For the first - 24 hrs
For the second - 1 h
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I had a 17 hour labor... so 12-13 at home?
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A while! Once I was pretty sure, about 8 hours. But it was only about 5 when I was really, really sure.
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well, i went for a walk after my water broke and then labored at home until i went through transition. from water breaking to driving to the hospital was a little more than 4 hours.
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If you count laboring at work.. then around 11.5 hours.
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about 1 hour. my contractions lasted about a minute and were less than 5 minutes apart from the get-go.
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About 27 hours. I could have stayed home longer (and my MWs encouraged me to do so), but I was starting to get nervous because my labor started with my water breaking, and by that point it had been broken for a long time.
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Not long at all. My water broke and my MW wanted me to go to the hospital to get it tested to be sure there was no meconium or anything, and said it would be up to me whether to go home afterward and labor there or to hang out in the hospital. My contractions started about the time we got to the hospital and progressed quickly, so in the end there was really no question of heading home.
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My water broke at 9pm and we left around 10 for the hospital. They wanted me to come in right away. I didn't have contractions for at least an hour once we got to the hospital.
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Just over two days at home. We went in around 3-4am, and he was born at 12:38pm. They broke my water at the hospital.
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0.0 seconds. Induced.
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Like 4 hours of painless, inconsistent contractions. I wasn't even sure if I was in labor! Was planning to make it much longer but my water was leaking and they wanted to check if I was actually in labor...and I was so I just stayed. Definitely not my ideal!
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30 hours. So fun.
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The time it took me to get a shower, get dressed and get the dog situated with neighbors. My water broke in the middle of the night and 10 minutes later my contractions started at 4 minutes apart lasting 45 seconds so I decided to go right in. I got to the hospital about 90 min after my water broke.
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18hrs! I went to the hospital at 4cm which was when I was confident things were getting moving quick.
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9pm-4am... So 7 hours
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9 hours. But the first 2 weren't too bad.
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4 hours.
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36 hours.
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WOW.
For those that labor at home for really long how long in the hospital or birthing center before you gave birth?
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2 days more or less. Contractions started Thursday, organized themselves Friday, got really bad overnight & went to the hospital Saturday morning.
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@locavore_mama: 9 hours.
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maybe two hours? I woke up at 6am with back pain...quickly realized the "back pain" was coming at regular intervals, so I called my doc at 7am....and they said to come in! I took a quick shower, got a hold of my parents to watch my daughter, and as we were about to leave for the hospital, my water broke! So I had to get cleaned up a bit and change my clothes and we were out the door by 8am.
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@locavore_mama: I got to the hospital at 6:30pm, and she was born at 2:30am.
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@locavore_mama: 11 hours, I think?
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3.5 hours. As long as I possibly could until I thought the baby was going to fly out of me.
She was born 2 hours after I got to the hospital.
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Only like an hour at home - I had Strep B and my water broke at home so they wanted me on an IV of antibiotics right away.
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@sera_87: omg you poor thing!
@MrsTiger: good point. I was also positive and was hooked up to IV as soon as I was admitted.
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@locavore_mama: 27 hours at home, 18 more at the hospital. FUN TIMES!
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11 hours laboring at home. Contractions started at 6 pm (thereabout), we got to the hospital at 5 am and she was born four hours later.
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Not long. My contractions came on quickly! It was probably about 2 hours. ETA: When I got to the hospital I was 5cm. I was shocked!
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With N, my contractions started at 7 pm, and we left for the hospital at 10 pm. 3 hours.
With J, we left for the hospital right when my contractions started because it was during rush hour, and he was my second kid so I knew labor was likely going to be faster.
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Almost 8 hours, then born within 3 hours of arriving at hospital.
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About 20 hours, but the first 12 hours or so weren't really painful-- like, definitely contractions, but I could walk through them mostly. They started getting quite painful around 9:30, which is when I called the midwife, she suggested I labor at home as long as possible since I was hoping to go med free. We left for the hospital around 3, admitted around 3:30 am at 4 cm, baby was out at 7:16 am- so less than 4 hours from arriving at the hospital. My water broke in the hospital.
It sounds really long, but it was a very slow, gradual build up, which I think helped with the pain tolerance (vs water breaking then contractions starting like BAM). I don't actually have anything to compare it to though
For those that labor at home for really long how long in the hospital or birthing center before you gave birth?
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