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24 hours for RJ as well! Your shorter delivery with Olive is very encouraging for the future

I was in labor for a total of about 49 hours but it was only really painful for the last 20 hours or so.

Labor started around 2am with painful contractions. 8 hours into it I asked for an epidural--contractions were coming hard every 1-2 minutes. Rested for about 2 hours, pushed for 2 hours.
Had my baby 12 hours after I went into labor.

hmm hard for me to tell when early labor ended and active labor really started both times, but if I had to estimate:

DD#1 - in early labor for about 11 hours (no epidural), active labor for about 8 hours (5 hrs no epidural, 3 hrs with epidural), then pushed for 54 mins. about 20 hours total.

DD#2 - in early labor for about 2 hours, in active for about 4 hours, pushed for 2 mins!! no meds! about 6 hours total.

Mine was 26 hours, then they had to do a c-section because my water broke in the beginning and they couldn't wait for me to get to 10cm anymore, I could only get to 8.5cm. My contractions started a bit after my water broke and I got the epidural about 4 hours into it when I was at 5cm.

With my first, my water broke at 1am, no contractions until 2am, drug intervention was not stopping labor, painful contractions at 3am, fully effaced at 4.30am, epidural at 5.30am, starting pushing at 7am and baby out at 8.15am.

With my twins, water broke at 1am. Painful contractions were slow in coming - they got me started on pitocin at 5am to speed things up and painful contractions began at 5.30am. Epidural at 7.30am. Wheeled into OR at 9.40am and naturally delivered baby A at 9.55am and baby B at 10am.

36 hours from first contraction to baby. The first 24 hours wasn't bad. All the 'stuff' happened like lost mp, had bloody show, contractions getting closer and water breaking, but pain was very manageable. I had baby 12 hours after my water broke but pain was so much more intense after water breaking. But then she only took 20 min of pushing to be born.