Just out of curiosity, how long were you in labor?
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From my first real contraction to her being born, 10 hours. 8:00am-6:15pm
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Started with my water breaking just before 5, contractions didn't start til 5:30 or so. She was born at 9:27.. So about 4 hours!
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My first contraction was at 6:45am and she was born at 7:48pm. So about 13 hours.
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From start of induction to birth: 53 hours!!
I went home after 36 but went into labor that night and had to go back. I was in the hospital for almost a week! It was horrible, but I'm glad my body decided to go into labor and I didn't need any pitocin once it got started.
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9 hours from water breaking to Los arrival.
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10 pm to 2:09 pm the next day.
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Waters broke at 2:30am, pushed ds out at 11:30 am. I'm hoping to go even faster this time
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From the time my water broke to the time I was fully dilated... a little over 4 hours, but it ended in an emergency c-section
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16 hours from first contraction to birth.
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Water broke at 11pm, I was holding him at 1:54am!
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Mild contractions started around 4pm Sunday. Major contractions started at 4am Monday. Baby was here at 11:49am Monday. So....almost 8 hours.
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9 hours
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@yellowbird: Holy crap! 53 hours!! I have never heard of anyone having labor that long.
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10 hrs of labor, 2 hrs of pushing.
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Pitocin kicked in around 5 p.m. on Friday, and I didn't have LO until 8:00 p.m. on Saturday. So, 27 hours of labor, an hour or so to labor down before pushing, and then 1 hour of pushing.
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@yellowbird: My induction was awful! I didn't progress *at all* until right at the end (everything happened in the last 3 hours!).
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@yellowbird: This makes me scared to give birth in June. Were you in pain the entire time?
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About 12 hours, both times.
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8am - 6:14pm so around 10 hrs total.
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First contractions 5:00pm Thursday
Started pushing 10:30 am Friday
Delivered at 3:30pm FridaySo, 22.5 hours.
Labored at home for 8 or 9 hours, got epidural when I got to the hospital at 2 or 3 am. Napped until 10cm, which was good because I pushed for 5 hours!!!!!
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@MsLipGloss: it was terrible!
@swedishfish: almost the whole time. I went in at 5pm on Wednesday. They placed a foley balloon around 8:00. Contractions started around an hour later and were painful!! They weren't productive though because the balloon didn't come out until 12:00pm the next day. I was 2cm dilated. They started pitocin at 2:00pm. Painful contractions continued until 10:00 when they turns it off because I wasn't progressing. They gave me something to sleep. I woke up te next morning having mild contractions, but convinced the OB to let me go home on bedrest because I felt like I was headed toward c-sec because of failed induction. I got home at 9am and by 12pm I was having very painful timeable contractions, but I didn't know if I was in labor because of all I just went through.
They got to the point where I would have to kneel through them and I stayed in the shower for an hour. By 6:00 I decided we had to go back to the hospital! I was 5cm thank god! Then I got an epidural around 9pm and was ready to push around 3 hours later. That while time was pain free and amazing after such a long time in pain.
Thinking back, it was all worth it!
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@yellowbird: You are Superwoman!
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@leelee: Wow....exactly like me, except LO was born at 6:15pm. Crazy!
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@hellobeeboston: 5 hours of pushing?! I wanted to hit someone when they told me they would *allow* me to push for 3! But by the time it came to push my epidural was long gone, so I wasn't exactly thinking clearly!
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I shouldn't have read this thread. At 36 weeks, I am scared already of what to expect during labor and now I really am!
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36 hours!
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26 hours!
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Just under 9 hours.
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Yep, this terrifies me. lol! Y'all are some strong mamas!
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charlie - almost 24 hours from first contraction to c-section delivery. i pushed for 3 hours before getting the c-section.
olive - 8 1/2 hours from first contraction to vbac delivery. much faster the second time around!
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About 14 hours total. I started noticing contractions around 7pm. Went to the hospital by about 10:30-11pm, had my LO at 8:30am.
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@Smurfette: If you had described my birth experience to me before I had BabyGloss, I would have told you there was no way I could do that and that you were seriously crazy! But in the moment, you just keep going, one minute and one decision at a time . . . and your DH is right there with you. You can totally do it. And you won't be scared. You will be ready.
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16.5 hours from water breaking (no contractions yet) to birth.. 1.5 hours of pushing!
This sounds stupid, but I went into labor on 9/11, and apparently my in-laws were praying for the baby not to be born on 9/11, so I blame them for my labor taking so long! (DS was born at 12:26am the next day) I only found out that they did this later or I would have immediately told them to cut it out, haha...
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With my first, my water was broken at 1:30 and he was born at 7:45pm, so around six hours. But! Four freaking hours of that were pushing. Ugh.
With my second, I started feeling contractions around 8:00pm or so, but they didn't get painful until around 12:30. She was born at 2:00am, so still six hours, but only about an hour and a half of pain and - best of all - eight minutes of pushing.
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@MsLipGloss: That is what I am hoping for. Everyone tells me that you forget about the pain afterwards anyway. I think that it is the unknown that scares me so much.
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@MsLipGloss: ha - i know! if someone told me I was going to push for 5 hours I think I would have cried and been even more terrified than I already was! honestly - it went sorta fast (not the end) and I think I was pushing 'wrong' in the beginning even though they kept saying i was doing great. once I got the mirror in, it really helped - I think my boy was just big! he was only 8lbs 3oz, but it was just hard to get him out! I was really really lucky that me & the babe did well and were allowed to push that long without any interventions!
@Smurfette: you TOTALLY forget the pain, like very soon after. my LO is only 4 months and I feel like the whole birth experience is a complete blur. Even though i had a semi-long labor, I really loved my birth experience and totally want to do it again! (hopefully with a shorter pushing time)
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My water broke at 5:30 pm, and she was born at 10:31 pm...but by c-section because she was breech. It only took so long because I had had a snack recently (duh. I was 39 weeks pregnant.), and they like the stomach to be empty for the C. So I had a few hours of contractions while I stared at the clock. And now I'm even more in awe of you natural birth ladies!
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From the start of time-able contractions to delivery 32 hours.
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From the start of monitorable contractions (9:30 Saturday night) to holding our little girl (11:42 Monday morning) was 38 hours and 12 minutes. I only pushed for less than 40 of those minutes.
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