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moms with outside babies, how long did it take to

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in December 2010 Moms
go into labor or start having contractions after your water broke?
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  • LovesMMLovesMM member
    I had contractions before my water broke. In fact. I was contracting Friday afternoon and went to the hospital Friday evening. I was at 4cm. By 6am Saturday I was at 6cm and my water still didn't break. At 7am my doctor came in and I was at 9cm and he broke my water for me. by 8:13am Paige was born.
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  • JLSmith124JLSmith124 member
    The real contractions started about an hour after my water broke, but I had been having BH contractions the entire pregnancy pretty regularly.
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  • thatgirl85thatgirl85

    My doctor broke my water when I was at 9cm.  She thinks I had a pin hole size puncture in it, as I had a slow trickle (I thought it was just regular discharge) for the day leading up to labor.

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  • pnkstephpnksteph
    Contractions started for me about 5 hours before my water broke. I did lose my mucus plug though in the morning and then contractions started about 8 hours later. 
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  • AmberLoryn2629AmberLoryn2629 member

    When my water broke, I was 0cm dilated and 0% effaced. I made absolutely no progress until they started me on Oxytocin about 8 hours later. Only 4 hours after starting the IV, it was time to push.

    ETA: I didn't answer the actual question, whoops! I was having teeny tiny regular contractions about 4 hours after my water broke, but I couldn't feel them at ALL. They weren't productive or strong enough to feel until the Oxytocin.

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  • MrsTechieMrsTechie
    Serious contractions started about an hour after my water broke.
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  • heyitsmeheyitsme member

    With DD my contractions started before my water broke BUT they were so unnoticeable and irregular (I only know I was having them because I was having a lot of pelvic pain and we went to L&D and they monitored me, saw the contrax, and sent me home 2 hours later "in early labor"--my water broke 22 hours after that). Even after my water broke with her I didn't get into active labor--I wound up needing Pitocin to get things moving.

    This time around contractions came well before my water breaking--my OB had to break my water at 9cm. 

    Mom to J (10), L (4), and baby #3 arriving in July of 2015
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  • Temp103605875001677Temp103605875001677
    My water broke at 5am and I didn't feel contractions until after 1am. I didn't go to the hospital until it had been 18 hours after it broke. My OB knew I wanted to avoid as many interventions as possible.
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  • BellaCapuletBellaCapulet member
    My water broke (huge gush not just a trickle) and strong contractions came immediately.  I was fingertip dilated on Tuesday.  My water broke at 5:00PM on Thursday and we went straight to the hospital.  By 5:30PM I was 4cm and in active labor.  I did not require pit at all.
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  • janneann1127janneann1127 member
    i think it totally varies.. but i started getting contractions at 3pm, lost mucus plug at 4pm, water broke at 5pm, and i had my baby at 8am the following morning. however, my water was like a slow trickle at 5pm.. the nurse at the hospital fully broke it (i think) when she did an internal on me at 3am, cause suddenly my contractions went from 0-60 in like 2.2 seconds. (and then i dilated the full 10cm in 2 hours, but that's a whole other story.)
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  • IncogNeatoIncogNeato member
    13 hours later I still wasnt having regular contrax so they started me on pitocin.
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  • KatieM1106KatieM1106

    imageIncogNeato:
    13 hours later I still wasnt having regular contrax so they started me on pitocin.

    Same here! 

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  • LittleMissLMCLittleMissLMC

    imageluckystarz:
    I contracted for over 24 hours w/o my water breaking. My OB had to break my water to get things moving along and I am really glad that they were the ones to do it, since there was muconium in my water and I think I would have freaked since it was greenish.

    This! I'm so glad someone else said that they had contractions for over 24 freakin' hours. I had the same thing and they were REAL and perfectly timeable at about 5 minutes apart for the last like 8 hours before I went to L&D. Everyone asked me why I got an epidural at only 3cm dilated like I was some kind of a wuss. Pfft, those things sucked. </rant>

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