I'm curious to hear what time of day your labor started. By labor starting, I mean the beginning of contractions or when your water broke (if that happened first).
Edited to add: The poll is for non-induced labor, although you are welcome to comment in the thread if you were induced
I've also enabled multiple votes for multiple children.
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GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
Mild early back contractions woke me up around 7am, but they didn't become steady and obvious until around 5pm.
pomegranate / 3212 posts
Early morning like 5/6am with the first And around 1pm after swept membranes with the second.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
6am for ds1 (contractions)
530am for ds2 (water broke)
persimmon / 1339 posts
Probably was having very mild contractions for most of the day previous (I was 40+5) but they woke me up at 1:00am on the dot!
pineapple / 12053 posts
830 am my water broke spontaneously. Contractions started about an hour later.
pomelo / 5093 posts
9 pm. I'd been contracting on and off all day, though. I didn't feel like eating dinner, so I went into labor on no sleep with no food in my stomach. Not ideal.
grapefruit / 4903 posts
LO1 - water broke at 7:20pm; born at 10:10am next day
LO2 - contractions woke me up at 3:30am and water broke at 4:15am; born at 7:27am.
pomelo / 5607 posts
I started having what I now know were contractions sometime in the afternoon. But I woke up with "real" contractions at 6am the next day. I'm not sure how to vote for that.
pomegranate / 3921 posts
Water broke at 11:45PM. Contractions started just after midnight, LO was born at 6:37AM.
pear / 1616 posts
DD - 530am water broke, delivered that afternoon
DS - 6pm contractions started, delivered early morning
coconut / 8861 posts
DS #1: 5:30pm contractions after work, delivered the next morning during shift change.
DS #2: 9am contractions after getting big brother up for the day, delivered about 7 hours later in the early evening at shift change again.
pear / 1739 posts
Water break at 3 am with my DD
Water break at 2 am with my DS (DD was not happy to be awake)
pomegranate / 3438 posts
I woke up at 1:30am to a popping sensation which was my water springing a leak. Intense contractions started not long after. But looking back I was having contractions the entire day before, I just thought they were BH since we were so busy that day and I was only 37 weeks.
bananas / 9118 posts
#1 water broke around 2pm and contractions started on our way to the hospital at 4pm.
#2 went to hospital triage for high bp and contractions started around 3pm while being monitored 
hostess / papaya / 10219 posts
Mine didn't have a hard start time so I'm not sure. I had a few strong contractions in the evening but nothing to time. I started timing at 10pm. They were 7-8 min apart. So I guess it started earlier but they were so spaced out then (30 min to an hour)
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