How long?

[reallytinyamy]

Just curious..... Someone on my facebook has just had a baby after 53.5 hours of labour. I wondered how long people here were in labour for.

I was 6.5 hours active labour, giving birth 15 hours after induction started

 

[thelilbump]

wow thats a long time!

In total it was 36 hours from the point when i was sure they were contractions. I'm never quite sure when they mean 'active labour' starts but i was pushing for about an hour n a half x

 

[babystar]

I was 13 and a half with my 1st.... then I got started off with my 2nd and that was 3 and half hrs

 

[jackiea85]

My contractions started at 5:30am and he was born at 3:05pm, thats 9 hours if my brain is still working properly lol. I'm not sure how they define active labour either, i wasn't checked til 8am and i was 6cm already x

 

[1st_baby]

15 min for me until they cleared me for my c-section but my friend was in labour for 30 hrs the same time as me

 

[Pyrrhic]

I was induced. 21 hours, with 7.15 hours of active labour.

Was the 53 hours full on labour? I thought after that amount of time they would have interceeded to get things moving, so the mother wouldn't be too knackered for active labour. Or was it slow labour too?

 

[Vickie]

32 hours, not sure how much of it was "active" labor...lost my plug and waters went all at once, contractions started shortly there after...at least 27 hours of active labor though as when I went in at 7 Tuesday night they said I was in active labor and didn't have her until 10 the next morning

 

[reallytinyamy]

I was induced. 21 hours, with 7.15 hours of active labour.

Was the 53 hours full on labour? I thought after that amount of time they would have interceeded to get things moving, so the mother wouldn't be too knackered for active labour. Or was it slow labour too?

not sure, but I was thinking the same- surely thats from the contractions starting etc not full on labour!

 

[BlackBerry25]

I was about 16 hours with 2.5 hours pushing.

 

[Ema]

on my notes it say 29hrs and 15mins active labour (so from 4cm to fully dialted) i was in ezrly labour for about 2weeks but thety kept sending me away until i hit 4cm!! xxx

 

[Serene123]

36 hours after I went in to be induced, 12 hours after induction started, 4 hours active labour

 

[Blah11]

My waters broke, then came contractions. I gave birth 15 hours after they broke.

 

[ColtonsMom]

22.5 hours complete labor; 7.5 hours active labor (4cm until his birth), I think.

 

[Hevz]

Some people enjoy being dramatic....she wouldn't have been screaming in pain for all that time. I don't understand why people say these things to others.

What do you count as labour????? when you 1st started getting twinges and contractions???? In that case I was in labour for 2 months

 

[xarlenex]

48 hours 21 minutes complete labour. From when I went into labour contractions came every 5-10 mins till I went to hospital 28 hours later. Was checked and found to be 4cms, so a further 20 hours 21 minutes till he was born!

 

[sabby52]

27 hours from when contractions started, 4 hours of active labour with Dan
2 hours of contractions with Dec then emergency c-section. (I knew I was having a section the two hours was getting ready for surgery, the team arriving and two midwifes arguing over weather they could feel a little foot or a hand)

 

[Ema]

Some people enjoy being dramatic....she wouldn't have been screaming in pain for all that time. I don't understand why people say these things to others.

What do you count as labour????? when you 1st started getting twinges and contractions???? In that case I was in labour for 2 months

Dunno but she could be. I was in ACTIVE labour for 29hrs and was in pain all that time. Thats from 4cm till birth. So not including the 0cm to 4cm. XxX

 

[sparkswillfly]

78 hours from the first god awful contraction to the last... they were constant during that time I might add.

Active labour was 24 hours.

 

[Chellebelle]

My waters went at 3.15am - contractions started about 9am and gave birth at 4.45pm

 

[Tabs]

I had my first twinge about 1am, but wasn't sure if it was "the real thing" until about 4am... was checked at the hospital at 7am and was only 2cm and was sent home!! Was in an ambulance being "blue-lighted" to hospital by 9am and Morgan was born at 9.30am!!!! (I only pushed three times for about 5 minutes in total!!!)

So 8.5 hours from first twinge....

Active labour though??? Probably about an hour!!!!!!!