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How many days of contractions before it all really started?

51 replies

Banoffie · 30/09/2003 19:29

hi everyone

this is my first post... hope i do this right - i am actually asking on behalf of my sis who is due in 2 weeks. it's her second child and she has a 3 year old little boy already.
she has been having 1 or 2 hours worth of contractions the they stop completely for 2 days.... is that common ? have any of you had this ? i didn't so i can't relate. and if you had this how many of this did you ahve before it all finally started.
thank you.

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Lamin · 30/09/2003 19:42

Hi Banoffie

My waters broke on Sunday night, I started contractions on Tuesday night, had a day of labour on the Wednesday then contractions tailed off to one an hour, this carried on all day Thursday so I had acupuncture morning and afternoon and then started have contractions 5 mins apart on the Thursday night. Eventually gave birth on Friday at 3.30pm. Luckily I was being looked after by independent midwives Tell your sis to hang in there - it will happen. I was getting really desperate and thought I would never have my baby - kept asking to go and have a caesarean but my midwives and dh just laughed at me!