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How long did you labor with 1st LO?
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Re: How long did you labor with 1st LO?
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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a bit over 4 hours
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about six hours, 20 minutes of pushing
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13 hours, pushed 30 minutes
The first 8 hours were extremely easy.
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.
7.5 hours first contraction to birth.
First sign of labour was my water breaking. 1.5 hours later I had my first contraction.
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.
23 hours total.
DD1 was 3 hours, 46 minutes exactly...it was a pitocin induction.
DD2 was 6 1/2 hours or so...completely natural.
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.
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.
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