How long did you labor with 1st LO?

kxp004

from 1st contraction to birth...

AshasaurusRex

16 hours.

madhatter2003

from first contraction I felt....you don't want to know. It was over 100 hours (prodromal labor sucks!)

From first 'hard' contraction/with bloody show, etc = about 22 hours.  I went to the hospital around 8 pm and had her at 2:40 pm the next day.

That's why I don't feel bad about having an epidural the first time around when all is said and done.

DS was much more 'normal'.  1st contraction I felt was around 3 a.m., didn't get bad until around noon, had him that evening just after 7 pm.

circa1978

Close to 36, but most of it was early labor. I only had about five or six hours of active labor and less than 30 minutes of pushing. 

CheriCO

From water breaking to birth was just under 12 hours.  Real contractions didn't start until about 2hrs after my water broke, so I consider it more like 10hrs.

Corbin30

One hour.

I know, sounds like a dream come true, right? But to be honest, it was really scary, because the nurses kept telling me that I was just getting started, and that it was going to go on for hours, and just get worse, when really I was in the hardest part. I was terrified and thought I was going to die.

When I told them I had to push, they didn't believe me. As a result, they got in there just in time to catch his body (head was already out).

Number two was better, because I was prepared for a super fast delivary.

elle_bee

From water breaking to birth = 18 hours / from first contraction to birth I think that was more like 13 hours? 

Hard to tell though b/c the beginning "contractions" just felt like menstrual cramps and weren't that organized until several hours after my water broke.

Temp76535187505890

Water broke at 530 pm, contractions started an hour later and DS was born at 1149 pm. So around 5.5 hours from water breaking but 4 hours from first contraction. LO #2 was about an hour less but exact same scenario.

AutumnBride929

16 hours... for both!  Second was easier though.

cros8380

First contraction I felt until birth= 35 hours BUT the contractions were not painful or uncomfortable for about 8-10 hours after they started.

tosh24

My first good contraction came when my water broke, when I was in bed sleeping. From that point to delivery, it was 13.5 hours.

barnwife

I had my first contraction on Thursday night as we went to bed around 10:00. Though I was a few days past my due date, I had not experienced any contractions before.

Each time I got up to pee I had another contraction. When I woke up Friday I lost my MP and kept having contractions. However, I was totally able to run some errands and go to garage sales that morning. I didn't really have to start focusing until the afternoon.

J. was born at 10:40 on Friday night. So just about 24 hours after my first contraction.

superned

About 15 hours.  Started having contractions a little after 4am.  Got checked at OB's office at 11am - 5cm.  Went to hospital at 11:30am.  Water broke at 2:30pm, DD was born at 7:20pm.

Mrs.Greeko

a bit over 4 hours

"mooskie"

5.5 hours

sccalla

36 hours of labor (counted from when contractions were consistently 3 min. apart)

Jennrs

From first contraction? About 36. I had my first contraction at 5:00 a.m. on January 6. Contractions were no less than 8 minutes apart and no shorter than 30 seconds. I delivered my DD at 4:00 p.m. on January 7. I would say I was only in hard labor for about 6 hours.

ckolak:-)

1st contraction to birth: 2 1/2 weeks. I was told I was in early labor (timeable, regular, uncomfortable contractions, complete with bloody show and lost MP) for 2 1/2 weeks. My water breaking to delivery was 17 hours.

sschwege

If you count from the first contraction then 19.5 hours.  But I was able to sleep for the first two hours (I only had two contractions strong enough to wake me during that time), so I count it as 17.5 hours because that was the point where I could no longer sleep.

Billy Boy

about six hours, 20 minutes of pushing

 

 

 

 

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sallyshazbar

13 hours, pushed 30 minutes

The first 8 hours were extremely easy.

CTri17

7.5 hours

smwmrw1121

It was 24 hrs. almost to the minute. First contraction was at 4:30am on Tuesday morning and were about 7-10 min. apart. Went to the hospital around 4:00pm with contractions around 2-3 min. apart. My Dr. didn't break my water until I was complete and then it took 2 hrs. to push him out @ 4:34am on Wednesday.

Blackvelvet

About 6 hours?  I was swimming in a lake out of town and I had a pain so we drove back to town but I still dind't know it was labor we we went shopping and bough stuff to make dinner and drove home (we lived almost 30 min from town)  Once home I didn't well but it was only about 3-4 hours after I knew I was was in labor

ashg8r

Just over 7 hours.  First few contractions weren't too bad, but within the first hour I was lying down having to do deep breathing/relaxation stuff. 

chankins14

22 hours.

pinksweetpea2

40 hours- all active (no early labor that I remember). 

dixiemami

7.5 hours

ridesbuttons

7.5 hours first contraction to birth.

First sign of labour was my water breaking.  1.5 hours later I had my first contraction.

Alirebco

8.5 hours and labor started with my water breaking

sourapplemartini

I was induced with DD, but it was 10.5 hours from pitocin to birth.

DS came on his own, and it was about the same, contrax started around 645p and he was born at 504a. 

DreadLoc

23 hours total.  

sophabelle

about 7 hours total. though i had a half effective epi... my ob said had i not had one i probably would have given birth about 3 hours sooner. 

gennyplusbean

7 hours at home, 22 minutes at the hospital.

Jinsy80

DD1 was 3 hours, 46 minutes exactly...it was a pitocin induction. 

DD2 was 6 1/2 hours or so...completely natural. 

HML5382

About 20 hours from the first contraction, but they didn't get intense (I finished my yoga class and then slept through them on and off all night) until my water broke the next morning, then it was 8 hours till delivery with 1 hour of pushing.

Sawyerplus1

I consider my labor to be 30 hours. That's from 1st seriously uncomfortable/painful contraction to birth.  I had been cramping for about 15 hours before that, after getting my membranes stripped, but I dont consider it in my length of labor. 

Second labor was 8 hours start to finish.  

diamondcks

12.5 for me, about 8.5 after I could no longer talk through contractions, and 1.5hrs pushing.

Kathzoo

6 hours

amanicen

My NST at 10am the day I went into labor showed tons of contractions but I didn't feel many of them. By 3pm I needed to focus on breathing & stopped doing other things.

Technically 15+ hours from start to finish, but I only felt like I was laboring for about 9. I labored at home most of the day, went to the hospital at 10pm, had my water broken at 11.30 & went through transition, started pushing at midnight, & LO was born at 12.30am. 

Jason'swife

5 hours