At what point did you start the clock on your labor?
I know the midwives here said that you aren't considered to really be in labor until you hit at least 3 cm dilated and are having regular contractions.
In that case I was in labor for 13ish hours, but if you count from my first sign of labor (water breaking) it was 40.5 hours.
How do you count it?
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I counted from when it moved from discomfort to regular contractions. So 1 am for me. Gave birth at 5 pm.
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I counted from when I first started timing my contractions. 29 hours for me.
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I counted from my first sign of contractions, which were intense from the beginning. 7 am to 8 pm, 13 hours.
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I was induced but I count labor from the morning when my water broke and I was around 3 cm.
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I count from the time I was woken up by contractions. At the time I didn't know that was what they were but I count from then.
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I count my hours of labour based on when I was admitted into the hospital. I had had contractions for 16.5 hours before heading to the hospital. When I arrived at the hospital, I was 3 cm dilated and almost on the dot, gave birth 12 hours later.
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I counted from when I first started timing contractions. But I was already 2 centimeters and they got close fast. So 16 hours.
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I had no contractions at all, and then suddenly my water broke and I started having fairly regular contractions pretty quickly, so I go with the water breaking as my start point.
My OB wasn't going to let me get much past 24 hours post-water-breaking without talking C-section since I was GBS+, so we ended up using Pitocin after laboring for about 12 hours, and I think my final total clocked in about 20-21 hours.
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