With Charlie I was in pain for 6 1/2 hours before I received my epidural. With Olive I was in pain for 2 hours before I received my epidural.
How many hours of your labor were really painful?
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Three. Everything was uncomfortable but not too painful before I got to the hospital. Then my water broke as soon as we got there and the contractions were painful until she was born.
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With my first I wanted the epidural at 2am and didn't get it til 11 am... So 9 hours. (They had sent me home for not progressing at 4am, I labored at home for 4 hours alone, went back to the hospital, and it took a while to get admitted, an IV in, and an anesthesiologist, etc...)
With my second, the total labor was just 6 hours, but I would say about 4 of those hours were painful.
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13 hours! I was in labor for 15 but the first two hours were bearable.
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23 of 36 were painful.
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I would say just a couple hours of mild pain for me when I was induced.
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4 were excruciating
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No labor. I had one day were I had some contractions. They definitely weren't fun so bravo to all the ladies who go through hours and hours!!
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7 hours of excruciating pain...3 after I was sent home from L&D, 2 when my epidural failed at the start of transition and 2 when it failed again when I was pushing.
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20 of 24 hours (6 spent in the bath) were manageable, then 2 painful, then 2 of pushing that ended in vacuum extraction - excruciating! Didn't have an epidural or any other pain relief.
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Out of all 45 hours I would say the last 3 with the last 1 being incredibly difficult to bear. Mainly because I got really discouraged & my confidence plummeted. Almost immediately labor hurt more.
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I think 3 hours both times before I got the epidural.
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I was only in labor for 4 hours, so all were painful, but the last hr (6 to full dilated, right before epi + pushing) was intense.
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y'all are curing some baby fever real quick! lol
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i was in labor for 9 hours... 3 hours were mild, and 6 hours were painful. The 2 hours of transition from 7-10 cm right before I had to push were the worst. I didn't get an epi, so pushing her out was such sweet sweet relief!!
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I think about 19 hrs, when I factor in how long it took me to get to 4 cm, the 2 hrs it took to get the epidural after I was admitted & requested the epidural, the time where the epidural wore off, etc. The pain management for my c-section went much better, so that was a pain free, awesome experience.
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About 3 hours...I was only in labor for 9 hours though. The 3 hours immediately before my epi were the worst.
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9 hours before the epidural, then 4 hours when I hit transition and pushing. I'm pretty sure the epi failed - at one point the line fell out and it wasn't right after that.
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I was afraid an epidural would stop my labor, so I waited 10 hours until I was 7 cms. I should have kept waiting because it did stop my labor!
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I was in labor 9 hours, the first 2.5-3 were painful, then I got the epi and got some relief, but then the last hour of pushing was intense, it was worse than the beginning contractions, the pressure was insane!
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Like 30 mins of 36 hours of labor. My epidural was the Shiz!
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2-3 hours were painful out of the 14 total. I didn't recognize my labor until it was very active. Walking around the condo in pain was bad. Being in the waiting room and then in triage were the worst times I felt pain. I remember pacing around the waiting room just waiting to be admitted or checked out. Once in triage and monitored, I remember writhing around a lot until I was sent upstairs to be admitted. After my epidural, I felt pretty good for the remainder of my labor.
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2 hours. I went from 4-10 cm in less than hour. Everything before that just felt like cramps.
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I had to cope for maybe 5hrs of contractions. A couple hours before that were definitely painful, but not let's get to the hospital painful.
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Almost all of them, they had to induce labor! They hooked me up to the pitocin at about nine and he wasn't born until 4:28 so I'd say at least six to seven.
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The first time was about 7 hours of real intensity that I had to focus, focus, focus on breathing through. Second time was only about 2 hours. Both times minus the pushing because pushing feels dang good for me.
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It's really hard to pinpoint when it actually got painful so I will just say 24 out of 48 hours the first time was really painful. The second time I was only in labor for 2- 2 1/2 hours before my c-section and the last hour to hour and a half was pretty painful (going through transition).
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8 for my first
2.5ish for my second -
5 of the twelve. My labor came out of no where and my contractions were immediately 4 mins apart and lasting a full minute. The first hour of that was bearable. But the next five hours of progressing at home, driving to the hospital and waiting to be admitted suuucked until I got my epi. The epi was sweet bliss. I felt no pain and dilated so quickly after that!
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I had about 24 hours of contractions that kinda built in severity but never were really anything that bad. Sometimes I'd have to stop walking for a minute but I was still walking and talking and happy.
Then my water broke and I had 7 hours of escalating oh my freaking gosh why does everything hurt, like drops of water hurt, my body went into sensitivity overdrive. Then I got an epidural and had her a couple hours later fairly pain free.
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The entire night. My epidural wasn't working and I kept trying to tell the nurse, but she ignored me all night. I was thrilled to discuss that matter with her supervisor the next morning after new, fabulous nurse got me new drugs immediately!
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I would say maybe 3? That's when things got real and I couldn't joke or do anything else but concentrate on surges.
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The 45mins I labored at home? And those were bearable.
I got the epi waayyyy before things got bad.
I'd say the only part that hurt like hell was the last "ring of fire" 5-10mins, if that. -
I think maybe around 3? I labored for 12 hours at home because the contractions were bearable. We got to the hospital around 12, and they were starting to get really painful at that point. I labored in the tub for a couple of hours, the Dr. broke my water and then things got really serious. I'd say excruciatingly painful for maybe the last few pushed after my water was broken.
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Like 30 hours? Labor took so long I don't even know! The back labor went from "not fun" to "jackhammer in the spine" pretty quickly.
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I would say that probably 14 hours were painful. I may have called more of them painful when going through it, but my view of pain has since been redefined.
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I was induced on a Wednesday and had my LO on Saturday morning.
6 hours Wednesday
4 hours Thursday failed induction and I went home Friday morning , then went into labor
6 hours Friday16 hours total! I got my epidural at 9pm friday and no more pain!
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I was in pain from about 6am until delivery the next morning at 5:15am, so almost 24 hours! Once I hit about 7-8 cm I really thought I was going to die.
Second time, I was induced and my contractions got pretty unbearable around 6-7 cm, and I got my epidural-turned-spinal pretty quickly. Then no pain at all!!
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My entire labor was 26 hours, 1 hour of contractions before i got the epi hurt. Then the 2 hours of pushing was brutally painful (i think my epi wore off early). so 3 of the 26 hours of labor.
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@PrincessBaby: im with you! id say I was in pain for about an hour. water broke at 530 am, got to.hospital around 730, had minor contractionsnot painful then got epi around 930 when I was around 5 cm, before it got to the point I couldn't take it. I was only in labor for less than 12 hours.I progressed pretty fast for a first timer the dr said.
didnt feel a thing the whole time!
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