https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 08 May 2026 09:55:52 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/out-of-curiosity-when-did-my-labor-start#post-2239289 Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:54:19 +0000 mrsbubbletea 2239289@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've wondered this. I started having my bloody show around 7-8 pm, and I had irregular contractions that evening which slowly gained intensity over night. They were still up to 8 min apart all the way until I delivered! He wasn't born until the next morning at 3 am. I feel like I was in labor for at least 24 hours but it's difficult to say. Apparently I didn't start dilating until I arrived at the hospital around 12 noon, so maybe that would be the official start? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/out-of-curiosity-when-did-my-labor-start#post-2239233 Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:55:43 +0000 Torchwood 2239233@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been saying mine was 4.5 hours, since I woke up at 6am unable to lay back down because it hurt too much, and she was born at 10:40. I was definitely in early labor for at *least* the entire previous night, and my usual BH's had gotten uncomfortable for a while prior to that, so I guess technically I was in some form of labor for about 24 hours. But I only count active labor that was really painful and clearly (in retrospect) actual labor. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/out-of-curiosity-when-did-my-labor-start#post-2239154 Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:42:20 +0000 birdofafeather 2239154@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Corduroy: yeah, i agree with them! that's a freaking fast labor!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/out-of-curiosity-when-did-my-labor-start#post-2238888 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:46:31 +0000 Corduroy 2238888@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: @Mrs. Oatmeal: Thanks. My prodormal labor with LO1 was so long and so painful. Funny how my two labors could be so different. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/out-of-curiosity-when-did-my-labor-start#post-2238828 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:37:07 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 2238828@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>On my birth records from the midwives, my labour 'started' when the contractions got painful. Stage one was the painful contractions, stage 2 was pushing and stage 3 was when baby was born to when the placenta came out. So according to your timeline, you were in prodromal/early labour for quite awhile, then active labour started around 5pm. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/out-of-curiosity-when-did-my-labor-start#post-2238812 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:10:47 +0000 Foodnerd81 2238812@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You could probably say *active* labor started when they got really painful, so 5 pm. I would call as soon as you had "sensations" the start of early labor. Mine was kind of similar in that it took a long time to actually get painful. So it sounds like I was in labor kind of a long time, but the really painful part wasn't that long. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/out-of-curiosity-when-did-my-labor-start#post-2238807 Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:59:10 +0000 Corduroy 2238807@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO2's labor &amp; delivery last month was really fast &amp; (relatively) easy. LO1's labor lasted for days so everyone I talk to wants to know how long this labor was.</p> <p>I woke up at 3 am and *knew* labor was coming. I felt the same way with LO1's labor and at no point in between. I was 100% certain.</p> <p>At 2:30pm I tried out my contraction timer app to get familiar with it. I could time 'sensations' 14 minutes apart. At 3:30pm they were 5 minutes apart, still no pain. I was sitting on the couch alone watching tv and eating cookies. Pretty sure I was timing them according to what I wanted them to be and not according to reality.</p> <p>At 5:00 the pain went from zero to all the way. I was 10 cm when I got to the hospital around 6:20pm and baby was born at 6:45pm. </p> <p>So when did labor start? When the pain started? When the contractions were 5 minutes apart? When I first timed contractions? </p>