I gave birth to DS2 on Monday morning after an almost frighteningly fast labour - 31 mins from waters breaking to actual birth. My delivery notes make me laugh, as stage 1 of my labour says 30 mins, and stage 2 (the actual pushing part) is classified as 1 minute!
We were very lucky to make it in time - I literally went into the delivery room and 2 minutes later baby was born, had we stopped at any red lights or if there had been traffic is would have been in the car or in the lift 
So...I wondered, how common is this sort of thing? I mean you couldn't plan for this at all, and I wonder what it means if I have any more...I'd have to move into hospital!
Also, not sure if this is significant, but I ate almost a whole a pineapple on Saturday night - saw the other pineapple thread, so the evidence is there even though I assumed it was an old wives' tale!
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Quickest Labour Stories? (Not a competition!)
lapislazuli · 23/06/2011 14:45
my 'quickest' labour was 13 hours. My longest was two bloody days
Oops! Sorry, didn't mean to sound like I was bragging 
. Poor you, Dooin!
My dd took 2 days (8 hour second stage) but my friends labours were...
17hrs
3hrs
1hr
10 minutes.
She stopped at 4.
Congratulations op. Are you okay? My friend was very, very shocked and traumatised by dc4.
And nope the pineapple is coincidence. You need to eat 8 in one go, leaves, peel and all to even start to replicate the enzyme needed. It's definitely an old wives' tale.
3 hours and 10 minutes, and i thought that was quick
Congrats :)
My grandma had 5 babies and home and 1 in hospital (the last). The first five took no longer than 30 minutes from start to finish so she was anxious when they insisted on her going into thospital for the last. She set off at the first twinge and arrived five minutes later, and had to have her tights cut in a side room off reception as my aunt was already out
Unfortunately I don't take after her. 2 sodding days with DS1 (much more reasonable with DS2 but still a few hours rather than minutes). My grandma is about 4'9 and extremely petite...she doesn't look the type to pop out 7lbers without so much as a grunt.
Oh my gawd, I am getting freaked out - Lou, your timings are scary!
Haha will send DP to midwife school...
Knitter, the thought it could have happened at home did cross my mind, as I must have been contracting in my sleep oblivious to it all, but to hear that tale is if true!
I'm expecting no.2 and wondering how much "quicker" it is likely to be (DD was induced so that was 37 hours all told!)
When people say eg "2 hours" do they mean two hours from first sniff of contractions?
OP Lapislazuli - did you have contractions and pain before your waters broke? Or was it literally you were merrily going about your business with no signs of labour, then whoosh, then blimey 31 mins later your DS was here?!? 
at some of these, I hope dc4 due in sept is quick.
Dc3 was my quickest born 2 hours after waters broke, no contractions before that.
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From waters breaking to birth with DC 2 was 40 minutes - including 20 minutes of very gentle pushing. Total time from first contraction to delivery was 3.5 hours.
DC 1 was 6 hours from start to finish which i've been told is quick for a first time labour although a friend of mine had her first in a grand total of 20 minutes and delivered in the hallway at home 
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