Poll: At what time of the day did labour start for you?

[emkana]

I have this feeling that contractions will start (if they will start) at night/ during the early hours of the morning. That's how it was with dd1 (induced with dd2) and that's how it was with most people I've spoken to personally.

So I thought I'd ask a wider group of people - is there anybody here who had contractions starting at, say, lunchtime?

[MerlinsBeard]

DS1: contractions started half 2 ish in afternoon

DS2: its hard to tell because i was in lots of pain with stretching but they woke me in the middle fo the night and that when i knew i had to get to hosp fast!

[LadyTophamHatt]

ds1=first teeny weeny twinge 7am but wasn't in establish labour until 24 hrs later.

ds2=just after midnight

ds3=early hours of the morning.

[Tinker]

18:20 for 1st and 07:30 for 2nd

[emkana]

bump

[Tutter]

in the night - maybe 3am. thought it was (ahem) a loo thing til 8am however (when i realised it was more comfy on all fours - doh).

[aragon]

It never did start - he had to be blasted out - I made him far too comfy. Needed a CS in the end so he was hauled out.

[liath]

5pm. On the dot. Ouch!

[sunandmoon]

6pm, and DD was born 48 hours22mns later... so not much sleep!!!

[compo]

Midnight

[Pruni]

Early hours.

[nicnack2]

both dss mid afternoon

[Jasnem]

2pm, 7am, and middle of the night, for my 3

[bl0ndie]

In the bloody night as well, was v. tired at the end. All worth it though :) You think things are starting to happen emkana?

[GDG]

Ds1 - induced
Ds2 - 4am
Ds3 - 2am

[GarfieldsGirl]

ds1 - 2pm

ds2 - 1:45am

[PanicPants]

waters broke at 11pm

contractions at 2am

[bramblina]

Had good strong bh for most of the Wed, but was woken at 1am with proper, well established labour.

[essbee]

My ds was sort of staggered so hard to tell! He was born early morning though. My dd started just after midnight and was born the following night.

[skerriesmum]

At about 8 am I got the first twinges, nothing really bad until about 5 pm. Ds was born at 9 pm.

[skerriesmum]

Good luck emkana! You know we're all rooting for you!

[mumfor1standfinaltime]

Waters broke at 6am, contractions started at 8am. Ds born at 7.29pm by emergency c section.

8am seems to be popular!

[Miaou]

Dd1: 10pm

dd2: 10am (after being up all night with d&v - I think my body said "right might as well get rid of this baby while we're about it")

ds: 10pm

[Miaou]

And if it was any interest my labours were 16hours, 8 hours and 4 hours in that order

[CaptainDippy]

1st Labour started at about 5am - Had her 12pm the following day - was a looooong one!! Sigh.

2nd Labour never started - was induced at 9pm, born at 1am!!