Labor Day(s)

jhmomofmany · #1 September 2nd, 2012, 05:06 AM

How many total hours have you personally spent in labor? (Add the hours for each baby if you've had more than one...)

nurselochia · #2 September 2nd, 2012, 06:22 AM

10 hours of good labor with #1, then about 23 hours of preterm labor that was unsuccessful in being stopped with #4, so that's a total of 33 hours of labor for 4 kids, only 2 I actually labored with. (3 of the 4 were c/s)

Buggymom · #3 September 2nd, 2012, 06:28 AM

37 hours of induced labor for my daughter...ended in a c-section

jhmomofmany · #4 September 3rd, 2012, 09:06 AM

Seven kids and I've spent a total of 71 hours in active labor. All I can say is thank goodness that wasn't all at once, LOL!

Evenblindly · #5 September 3rd, 2012, 09:38 AM

You know... this may sound like a silly question and Im probably gonna sound dumb LOL but what do you constitute as "in labor" is it from the first contraction? how long you pushed? Its hard for me to be sure based on 2 of them being induced lol.

MarieJ · #6 September 3rd, 2012, 11:00 AM

14 hrs total and it was enough for me

that one ended in c/s and #5 was a repeat c/s

2Corinthians10:4 · #7 September 3rd, 2012, 01:08 PM

Active labor with Dd was 32 hours from the time my water broke until she was born.

melissalaw · #8 September 4th, 2012, 09:37 AM

7 hours for baby #1 and 3 1/2 hours for baby #2 so 10 1/2 hours total. My second baby came very quickly because I was already 3 cm dilated with him.

jhmomofmany · #9 September 5th, 2012, 05:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Evenblindly

You know... this may sound like a silly question and Im probably gonna sound dumb LOL but what do you constitute as "in labor" is it from the first contraction? how long you pushed? Its hard for me to be sure based on 2 of them being induced lol.

Actually, that's a really good question. I don't know the official answer, but to me.. "active labor" is when you go from "wonder if those contractions are real?" to "we're having a baby tonight!" Does that make sense? Maybe it's just me, but each time- I was "in labor" for several hours with irregular, easy cx before things actually got really moving.

babyloves2dance · #10 September 7th, 2012, 08:03 AM

3 1/2 hours for DD (I woke up from a pretty good sleep and my water broke, I didn't feel any contractions at all before that) and 2 1/2 hours for DS (Contractions started at 7:30 am and were close enough together for me to go to the hospital. Lost DS's heartbeat with the monitor so they had to break my water. Things progressed pretty quickly after that.) So 6 hours total.