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I was induced but went without pain meds. I started having contractions when I started pitocin at noon, was in active labor at 3, started pushing a little after 8 and she was born just before 9.

Edit: she was born at 42 weeks and was 7lbs6oz and 22 inches.

I had 5 nights of "false labor" (4-6 hours of 7-10 min intervals) followed by 45 hours of consistent contractions, 37 to go from 1-4cm & 8 from 4-birth (Pushing for 6 minutes). P was 6lb 1oz & 20 in long at 41+5 weeks.

I got my epidural 40 min before I started pushing (at 10 cm, and +3 station) so I consider myself a med-free laborer at the very least!

My water broke at 4:50, and I didn't get my first contraction until 5:20-5:30. I was 10 cm and +3 station by 8:30 p, then got the epi and labored down for a half hour. She was born at 9:27 pm.

7 lb 10 oz!

From the time I started having contractions to when I gave birth was 13 hours, but I only had regular contractions for maybe 3 hours. I went from 4 to 10 cm in 1 hour and pushed for 25 minutes. LO was 7 lbs. He was born less than 1.5 hours after I arrived at the hospital.

6 hours from start to finish... Pushed twice after I was 10cm... she was 7 lbs, 10.2 oz and 21.5"!

I started having "pre"-labor contractions at around 38 weeks (contractions would last 1-2 min, about 7-10 min apart, for several hours, but would come and go, and weren't effectively dilating me).
I was induced at 41 weeks, 12 hours start to finish. It took several hours to get "bad" contractions and then I dilated from 3-10 cm in about 2 hours. I ended up pushing for around 4 hours. I got a dose of fentanyl at around hour 10.

I woke up with mild contractions and they picked up by mid-afternoon, but I think active labor started somewhere around 6pm. LO was born at 1am after pushing through 3 contractions. She was 7lbs.

26 hours with Baby #1: 19 hours of easy laboring, gradually intensifying, water broke at 3 cm., I blogged at 6 cm. Shortly after that, things got much harder and it took 7 hours for me to go from 6.5 to complete. 8 minutes of pushing and my 7 lb. 9 oz. son was born.
25 hours with #2: 21 hours of easy labor, gradually intensifying to strong contractions, but very manageable in between due to my water not having broken yet. Not sure when my water broke since I was in the shower, but I'm guessing around 5 cm., about 2 hours before she was born. The last 2 hours were tough, particularly the last 20 minutes, when I went from 6 cm. to pushing my daughter out. Less than 90 seconds of pushing, maybe 3 pushes. 7 lb. 4 oz.

I was induced (slowly, no pitocin), I labored for 60 hours, 6 of them were very very active. I pushed for 2.5 hours, and our baby girl was 9lbs.9oz.

I was in labor for about 17 hours but not in real "ouch" labor until well into the second half. My babe was 7 lbs 8 oz.

I was induced (they just broke my water) and the first baby was born 1 hour later. His brother followed 11 minutes after that. They weighed 6 lbs 8 oz. and 7 lbs. 1 oz. The second was a breech delivery and that was the most painful thing ever, but I made it!

26 hour labor with contractions, water broke 19 hours in, back labor for the last 6, I was only in the hospital for the last 5, and pushed for 12 minutes. The back labor was by far the worst. I had no breaks between contractions for 3 hours.

OMG, @andrea86, you are my hero! I am one of those weird people who dreams of being pregnant with twins so I can experience that kind of birth too. <-----weeeeeird.

@andrea86: Not nuts, just a birth junkie. Ok, well, I guess they're sorta the same thing.