Labour stories sorry if too much info
Dd1
Irritable uterus with regular contractions from 26 weeks so I was given steroids with hospital stay and monitoring when they were bad. But never had effect of cervix thankfully. But they were continuous from 36 weeks.
Sweep at 40+3 contractions continued and lost plug over next couple of days. 40+5 something felt different so I went to the hospital at 11pm I was 4cm so they kept me in as I needed antibiotics for group b strep. 1am I was told it was not labour as still 4cm and had stopped contracting. 2.30 am I went to the toilet waters burst and had to be taken to the bad to give birth. She was born within the hour. So active labour was less than 2 hours.
My labour pains are all only just above my pubic bone like bad period pain.
Dd2
Irritable uterus started at 33 weeks thankfully much later than the first time.
I was in hospital for routine appointment at 38 weeks and the realised she was transverse and I was contracting. She was head down up till 37 weeks.
I had the choice of emergency c section in the hour or ecv and induction.
I chose ecv and induction. Ecv was very quick and painless followed by first pessary, which did nothing for 12 hours.
2nd pessary contractions started immediately 10 mins apart and were on and off for 12 hours, by then I was 1-2cm so they managed to break my waters, which had no effect on contractions.
6hours later they started me on the drop where my contractions were more regular but after 6 hours of the max dose I was still 1-2am. They realised she was back to back and classed it as a failed induction. They started preping for a c-section.
Then I felt the need to go to the toilet they checked and I was crowning!
So it was 2cm to birth in under an hour.