How long were your labours?

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Baby 1 - 33 hours
Baby 2 - 6 hours

I had my waters broken at 7am on the dot, baby arrived at 6:53pm that evening so just under 12 hours. Contractions started pretty much immediately after having my waters broken but not sure if that counts as active labour?

Dc1 12 hours.
Dt 7 hours.

Baby 1 - 12 hours from first twinge to birth
Baby 2 - 30 hours. My contractions started in the evening, went through the night and then stopped the moment DD1 woke up. They restarted the second she’d gone to bed!

I think it was my body just putting things on pause so I could attend to my first and for various reasons it would have been really inconvenient had she arrived that day!

From first twinges

34 hours / 17 hours / 34 hours

If you're only counting active labour ie basically when I got let into the wards

8 hours / 6 hours / 6 hours

I don't know what is wrong with me 😂 I don't seem to fit any normal patterns. Anyway I'm not having any more.

I too felt cheated by this. Not just you.

Dc1- 3 painful days from water breaking to being born. Vaginal birth with epidural

Dc2- just under 2 hours from the first contraction waking me up to baby being born and in my arms
I tried to time my contractions and realised there was no break at all in between them and I was using hypnobirthing breathing so I was silent and couldn't speak.
30 minutes drive to hospital and arrived with 10 mins to spare, they initially didn't beleive I was in active labour because it hadn't been long enough apparently 🤷 and I was in so much pain I was silent and concentrating on my breathing.

I was reluctantly examined and was only 4cm, literally 5 minutes later my body was pushing and he was out straight away. Again vaginal birth with no pain relief - didn't have time 🙈

Baby 1 - 34 hours from being induced. 3 hrs pushing which was exhausting!

Baby 1 - drip induction, 10 hours contractions started 2-3 every 10 mins but slow dilation, active labour just under 4 of those hours. 28 hours from waters breaking

Baby 1 - 37 hours. Back to back and face up, finally hauled out with a ventouse. She was 4 days early and 9lb12oz!

Baby 2 - 10 hours, first sign was my waters breaking. Thank goodness he was the right way round! He was 10 days early and 9lb3oz so I'm glad he came when he did!!

Baby 3 - induced at 36+6 as I was very unwell in the pregnancy. Was "unfavourable" at 6 am, 1 cm at 1pm and then she was born at 6pm, so 12 hours. Also a good presentation and "only" 7lb15oz! Three more weeks could easily have had her at over 9lb too!

Baby 1 - 8 hours
baby 2 - 7 hours
baby 3 - 2 hours (30 mins if you read the hospital record! 😳😳)

DD1 - spontaneous labour, 5hrs 17 mins from start to finish 5-10cm in 90 mins
DD2 - induction, 5 hours from start to finish 3-10cm in 5 mins

1-30 hours
,2-5 hours

1st - 2 hours
2nd - 15 mins

Waters broke sometime before 7am on sunday at 33+6. Contractions started 3am tuesday, she was born at 659am. so depends when you count labour. if just contractions then it's 4 hours.

Baby 1 - induction started at 8pm, contractions by 10pm, baby born at 2am
Baby 2 - 5 hours
Baby 3 - 1 hour 15 minutes
Baby 4 - not born yet but better not be even quicker!

Baby 1 - 4 hours.
I went from being totally unaware I'd have a baby that day (11am sitting down to eat fry up in a pub) when waters suddenly broke (I didn't even get to eat my breakfast😅) to baby being born (3pm)!

Baby 1 -12 hours
Baby 2- 1 hour 45 minutes.

Baby 1 - 3.5 hours
Baby 2 - 19 minutes!!!!!!!!!
Baby 3 - 3.5 hours ( but she was a home birth and got stuck so if she hadn’t I imagine she’d have been quicker)

I'm not sure really. I was induced with gels Saturday morning and had uterine hypersimulation Saturday and Sunday. These were super painful. I was on the drip at 2pm Monday and gave birth 8 hours later. So do I count it from the drip?

22 hours

DS 26 hours start to finish
DD less than 4 hours start to finish