And when do start counting from? First contraction? When they got painful? When you went to hospital?
I was 13 hours from when they got organized. 9 hours from being admitted to hospital.
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45.5 hours from when my water broke. 15.5 of active labor.
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I was 3 full long days from when I started having regular(ish) painful contractions. I never had contractions that were 5 minutes apart though until they finally had to put me on pitocin. I mostly labored at home, so it was only 5 or 6 hours from when I was admitted until the baby was born.
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31 hours of consistent contractions with G (17 augmented).
45 hours of consistent contractions after a weeks worth of nightly false labor (6-7 hrs each) with P (intervention free). -
I count from when they were pretty regular, so 14 hours total. 9 hours in the hospital.
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9.5 hours for my first, and 5 hours for my 2nd.
i started counting from when my contractions started.
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Around 14 hours from when my contractions became regular (and truly uncomfortable!). But--my water started leaking around 8 hours before that.
With my water breaking and true contractions not starting right away, I don't really know what to count as the beginning!
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@runsyellowlites: I had 2 long nights of false labor too. Ugh that was the worst! So frustrating!
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I count from when they became regular, which started around 9:30 am. I had DS at 8:02 PM so just about 10.5 hours.
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From first (easy) contractions to baby, 56 hrs. I had back labor so they were frequent but not consistent. They'd get to 2 min then back to 6 min then back down again. From oh sh*t this REALLY hurts to baby? About 44 hrs. Also it slowed to basically a stop for one or two random hrs in between then back to frequent contractions, maybe 4 min apart back labor. Back labor sucks!
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Mine was 10.5 hours from water breaking (contractions started immediately) to baby's birth.
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From the time I had contractions I couldn't talk through (e.g had to stop, apply counter pressure, etc.) until baby - 34 hours. I had an epidural for the last 6 hrs.
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24.5 hours from when my induction started. About 18 hours of active labor, and 2.5 hours if pushing.
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Just under 8 hours from water breaking we had a baby in our arms. False labor the two nights before, but it stopped once I went to bed. Must have had small contractions before, but I didn't notice until I got in the car to get checked at the hospital.
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32 hours of labor, 3.5 of pushing. Thursday night til Saturday am.
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Wow some of you are amazing! Ok you're all amazing for having babies obviously but 30+ hours of strong contractions?! You're my heroes!
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@travellingbee: Yea I was not happy with the false labor! Needless to say by the time consistent contractions started I was already exhausted since I hadn't slept in almost a week!... I slept as much as I could in early labor! lol
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15 hours from when my contractions started. My contractions were pretty regular from the get go.
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51 hours from when the contractions got organized . I started having contractions about 8 hours before that. 45 hours of "hands and knees" contractions.
I went to the hospital at 30 hours but left because I was only 2cm and I didn't want Pitocin. I went back at 43 hours at 4cm.
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@Corduroy: ugh! That's worse than mine, which I though took forever!
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From my water breaking, 4.5 hours. From first contraction, about 4 hours.
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@runsyellowlites: I had several nights of false labor as well before 34 hrs of regular contractions. So exhausting. I don't know how you did it med free being so tired!!! You're amazing!
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18 hrs from water breaking/having contractions to her being delivered
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Waters broke at 0530 on Monday morning, active labour established at 1130ish, Miss A delivered at 1424 on Tuesday afternoon so 5-6 hours of early labour and 27 hours of active labour
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@78h2o: Meh... it's alot easier when you're home & your only other option is an erc that you want to avoid. lol. Hopefully next time I won't have to transfer & labor will be atleast a smidge shorter. lol
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47 from water breaking to c-section.
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15 hours of active labor (I was induced, but went in to the hospital dilated to a 5).
1 hour of pushing.
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36 hours total. Mine was all back labor, and very painful for the majority of that time.
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11 hours from water breaking to baby with 3 hours of pushing. No meds, delivered at home with midwife and doula.
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11 hours total from when water broke to birth. 50 minutes of pushing included.
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from my water breaking (no contractions) to delivery: 6.75 hours. 2.25 hours from arriving to the hospital.
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Just under 9 hours from contractions starting to giving birth. Not bad for a first labor!
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From first (irregular, not painful) contraction: 11h
From first (regular, painful) contraction: 6.5h
15mins of pushing was in there somewhere -
9 hours from contraction 1 (which began painful) to birth. Contractions went from 12 to 3 minutes apart within 60 minutes.
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9 hrs from my water leaking. About 7 hrs from being admitted to the hospital. Only 30 mins of active pushing.
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almost 24 hours exactly.
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36 hours of painful contractions.
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I had a precipitous birth--water broke on its own at 11pm, holding baby at 2am
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26 hours of consistent contractions with Deere Boy, 7-8 of that being really hard labor, 8 minutes of pushing. Unmedicated, no interventions whatsoever, home birth.
25 hours of consistent contractions with Tractor Girl, 2-3 hours of hard labor, less than a minute of pushing. Unmedicated hospital birth, only "intervention" was a hep-lock. -
31 hours from when my contractions started until she was born. 15 hours at hospital
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