Been having contractions for past 5 hours - ranging from every 6-10 minutes, lasting about a minute. Painful, like very bad period pain, but currently just about manageable. Hospital don't want to see me until they are every 4-5 minutes for past hour, lasting about a minute (I thought it might be earlier as midwife originally said that when I last saw her as second baby). I've been timing them and sometimes they are every 5/6 mins, they they go back to 7,8 etc - anyone experienced the same with a second baby? I'm worried things aren't progressing and I will be stuck like this all day or worse, it tails off everyone kept telling me how this labour will be so much quicker and also a friend recently left it too late and had to deliver her baby alone on the living room floor
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