How long was your first labour?

[Hope54321]

Hi guys,

How long was labour for your first pregnancy?

When did your contractions start?

With my first started 2am, out of no where and were consistent/regular and strong from the get go and often piggy backed which was just an absolute joy. Ended up with an emcs 21hrs later.

With my second I had a planned section. No way I was going through that again 😂😂😂

26 hours. Waters broke 6am on a Friday, had her just gone 8am the Saturday

36 hours.

It was 21 hours. Contractions started immediately and then waters broke about half an hour later.
Contractions were 2 minutes apart from start to finish but surprisingly it was a pretty easy labour.

Waters went at 11.45am, contractions started at 1.30pm and baby was out at 6.40pm (I think!) so fairly fast.

Started with contractions and water breaking in the middle of sunday night. Baby was born at 5pm on the Tuesday. I stayed at home till about 4am on Tuesday morning, got to hospital and was 6cm, things slowed down a lot when I got there and ended up with the drip and an epidural when I was about 8cm.

33 hours or so... Through 2 nights which made it harder... Started just after midnight...

2nd was less than 6 hours start to finish (if that helps)

@FurForksSake

Started with contractions and water breaking in the middle of sunday night. Baby was born at 5pm on the Tuesday. I stayed at home till about 4am on Tuesday morning, got to hospital and was 6cm, things slowed down a lot when I got there and ended up with the drip and an epidural when I was about 8cm.

Can I ask why you ended up with the drip?

10hrs, 8lb 11ozs baby, one day before due date.

My 3 labours were roughly the same 6 - 7 hours long.

With my first my waters broke in bed at 10.30pm when I was 7 days over due, went into hospital to be checked and I was 1 cm, my contractions started about 45mins after waters broke, but really kicked in about 1am, and just progressed from there, my son was born that morning at 9.26am, weighing 8lb 12oz, finally 8 days past his due date! Just hoping this one, currently 15+5 isn't as over due and isn't quite as big 😊

Contractions started at about 6:00am and baby born at 11:23am. X

First contractions woke me up at 2am, went in at 2pm and delivered at 10pm.

Waters broke 12:30 at night, contractions started mildy around 3am, hospital by 1, water for a couple of hours, 8cm by 3pmish pushing by 6, baby stuck by 8, forceps by 9!

Induced 6pm, waters broke around 2am, ds born 05.04 am.

About 31 hours, contractions started at 8pm which didn’t help as it meant going through the night with no sleep.

DD was back to back, so latent labour was really bad for me. I only ever got to3cm in the 24 hours, was begging for my epidural. Then went on the drip. Luckily no c section and once the epidural kicked in it was lovely. I really recommend one for a long labour, as you get to sleep ready for newborn baby cuddles.

Contractions started Friday morning, DD finally put in an appearance at 3am on the Monday morning. Very long slow labour, had to be helped at each stage i.e. hormone drip, waters manually broken, epidural to allow me some sleep and forceps delivery...

Not sure exactly how to pinpoint when active labour started (was never examined and we tried timing contractions but I went from 'the internet says they're not long enough to call midwife yet' to 'get the midwife here now' very very quickly, but if going from being unable to talk through contractions/ collapsing on all 4s, to birth, it was around 5 hours.

Had manageable, irregular, progressively stronger contractions all day for 16 hours before that point.

First contractions started on the Friday evening, but were every 10 mins or so. This lasted through until the Sunday morning when I called Labour ward and basically begged them to see me. I turned up at the hospital at 10am, 3cm dilated, had my waters completely broken and within an hour I was 6cm. From then it took 12 hours for me to get to 9cm and by this time both of us were knackered. My DS was distressed so I ended up with an EMCS.

Waters broke at 11:45pm on the Saturday night, DS was born 4:43am on the Sunday!

38 hours - induced 3 times then the little monkeys heart rate dropped during labour so I had an emergency caesarean two days before Christmas. He is 17 now and still a stubborn bugger!

Just over 3 hours from my waters breaking (the first sign of anything happening) to eating my toast!

Due date baby, over 9lb. No pain relief and Dad never had to leave me. Spent less than 12 hours in hospital in total. Absolute dream - hoping for the same again this time.

Contractions started 4pm Wednesday, waters broke at midnight, DS born just before 1pm on the Thursday.

I had contractions for 96 hours before my DD was born. They weren't unmanageable but they did prohibit sleep that entire time (ranged from every 3 to 12 mins in no real pattern, but quite long so no not a "twinge") so the exhaustion was crippling by the end. My notes say a 10 hour active labour as that's when I was taken by the midwives!! A very straightforward delivery in the end and didn't need pain relief but wow it was a marathon. People who say "latent phase doesn't count" - well, it did for me, I found those relentless and slow progress early days worse than the pushing/crowning!

8hrs. 8am-4pm. Baby 8lb8. Born due date