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Share experiences and get support around labour, birth and recovery.

How long was it between arriving at hospital and giving birth for you?

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plehpleh · 13/09/2023 11:31

I'm wondering if we were in the hospital for a typical amount of time. I arrived at 12.20am (6cm dilated) and gave birth at 10.37am, so it was 10 hrs from arrival until birth (first baby). How long was it for you? And then how long were subsequent births?

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fr4zzledmum · 27/09/2023 09:43

Arrived at 9pm on the Sunday (after having contractions since 9am on the Saturday), admitted at 11pm and baby arrived just after 3am Monday.

vegsoup · 27/09/2023 09:53

1st baby 5 hours
2nd baby 1.5

Nat6999 · 01/10/2023 01:03

65 hours, went in to triage due to pre eclampsia, had gel for induction, waters broke & drip started,, ds born 60 hours later by emcs.

Bewildermum · 01/10/2023 01:25

38 hours, ending in emergency section.

chickstock · 01/10/2023 03:32

60 agonising hours first time. Waters broke Sunday, went in Monday night, failed to progress. Drip etc and finally gave birth on Thursday morning after 4.5 hours pushing.

Second time, went in for induction on Friday morning, done, dusted and home by lunch the next day.

JimnJoyce · 01/10/2023 11:45

2.5 days ending in emergency CS

Superscientist · 10/10/2023 16:26

45 minutes she had kindly run the pool whilst we travelled over so I jumped straight in after the initial examination.

Active labour was around 2h and I arrived fully dilated. The midwife was surprised as she examined me and sent me home 2h earlier at 2cm.
Had I listened to the midwife that on the triage line I would have had my daughter on the toilet as I had been needing to push for some time but I thought I just needed to ahem use the loo.

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