https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:07:14 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor/page/2#post-480320 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:09:02 +0000 pelikila 480320@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just under 6 hours from being woken up with a contraction to delivery. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor/page/2#post-480289 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:57:28 +0000 LuLu Mom 480289@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>From induction with pitocin to c-section it was 17 hours, with 2 1/2 of it being pushing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor/page/2#post-480284 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:53:42 +0000 bushelandapeck 480284@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>24 hours from when my water broke but I wasn't in active labor until 6 hours before he was born. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor/page/2#post-480245 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:37:13 +0000 MsLipGloss 480245@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>27 hours. It was an awful (unplanned) induction, and I narrowly avoided having a c-section. Although I didn't have a *plan* per se, other than to have a healthy baby, I would hope that if I have another baby that the labor process would be a little smoother. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor/page/2#post-480234 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:30:55 +0000 matador84 480234@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@pennylane I had a precipitous birth! My ob said about less than 3% of all births happen that fast...it was less than 3 hours from start to finish. They didn't even have time to finish my admission paperwork at the hospital! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor/page/2#post-480166 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:39:14 +0000 mamabolt 480166@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just under 9 hours. Not too bad at all! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-480150 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:24:23 +0000 SleepyMonkey 480150@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>13 hours from the first consistent contractions. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-480082 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:24:02 +0000 Penny Lane 480082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@matador84: WOW that's fast! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-480080 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:22:38 +0000 Penny Lane 480080@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>10 hours 45 min from first contraction, which also broke my waters :)</p> <p>Totally in awe of those who went for 24+ hours. I was so tired I didn't even open my eyes for the hour of pushing! I'm sure my midwives thought I was crazy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-480026 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:59:56 +0000 Kemma 480026@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Waters broke at 0530 on Monday morning, went into active labour at 1130, delivered LO at 1424 on Tuesday so 6 hours of early labour and 27 hours of active labour incl 2.5 hours of pushing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-480021 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:50:45 +0000 sarac 480021@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>36 hours from start of induction to delivery. Admitted to the damn hospital 12 hours before that. God, that sucked. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479997 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:16:40 +0000 boiledpnut 479997@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My water broke around 430am and he was born by c-section at 10:41pm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479923 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:10:47 +0000 HLK208 479923@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lemondrop: I was happy to labor down for an hour too, it gave me a break! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479918 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:09:08 +0000 HLK208 479918@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>7 hours for baby #1<br /> 5 hours for baby #2 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479913 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:07:28 +0000 lemondrop 479913@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@matador84: me too! live in fear of that thought</p> <p>7 hours and 50 minutes from water breaking to baby in my arms. I was expecting much, much longer, and was very happy the epidural slowed progress just a bit. It would have been even faster, but I don't want to know how bad the tears would have been. So happy I labored down! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479893 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:57:50 +0000 keiki_mama 479893@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>30 hours </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479843 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:32:37 +0000 SAHM0811 479843@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>20 hours and 6 hours </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479832 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:25:39 +0000 skibobrown 479832@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@junebugmama: Awww... someone else in the same boat! How did yours turn out? I ended up with a normal delivery although some pitocin and an epidural were involved at the very end to finally get things moving (and then to deal w/ the pain from the pitocin contractions). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479785 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:04:33 +0000 oahujeni 479785@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>22 hours from the time my water broke, but only 9 hours of active labor </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479782 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:03:48 +0000 JoeysMama 479782@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am amazed by those of you who were in labor for days! I can't imagine it! </p> <p>My first contraction was at 6:30 am and he was born at 7:15 pm. I stayed at work until about 1:45 pm. Everyone said I would have so much time, since he was my first, but it felt pretty quick to me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479762 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:58:01 +0000 rachiecakes 479762@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>water broke &amp; labor started just after 5am, DS was born at 8:17pm </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479717 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:44:35 +0000 MamaMoose 479717@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>12 hours from the first contraction to when she was born. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479672 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:32:57 +0000 junebugmama 479672@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@skibobrown: I didn't think there was any other person that went as long as me...I'm sorry</p> <p>72 hours for me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479663 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:30:15 +0000 Minnie_Girl 479663@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Early labor lasted for about 48 hours and active labor was about 20. Aaaaaaagh. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479588 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:07:41 +0000 BelugaBean 479588@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>13 hours from first contraction to birth. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479582 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:06:08 +0000 sorrycharlie 479582@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>4.5 hours fr start to finish! Like PP my water broke spontaneously. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479561 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:59:01 +0000 skibobrown 479561@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was 72 hours from start to finish. I had a few periods during the 1st day when the contractions completely went away, but for the most part I was experiencing painful timeable contractions that entire time. I knew labor could be long, but I never had any idea it could be that long. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479504 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:43:34 +0000 Sweet T 479504@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>18 hours. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479498 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:42:06 +0000 leelee 479498@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was induced so from the time they hooked me up to pitocin to baby was about 10.5 hours (only 4 hrs to fully dilate but we had to labor down because LO was still too high. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-long-were-you-in-labor#post-479437 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:26:42 +0000 matador84 479437@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had NO contractions previous to water breaking. It broke on its own at 1050pm on a Friday night, I was holding DS at 1:54am Saturday!!! Scary how fast the next one might come! </p>