How long were you in labor?

[Shel]

Kaleb 9 hours
Jacob 1 1/2 hours
Riley 11 hours
Owen 18 hours (and then a c-section)



So much for labors getting shorter with the more kids you have :rolleyes:

[Trish]

Yeah, poor you, Shel :(

Aden - 10 hours (he was induced)
Evan - 3 hours
Owen - 2 hours

[Darcy]

Riley: 13 hours
Jeremy: 4 hours (he was induced)

[Alyssa]

Aidan - 7 1/2 hours
Colin - 2 3/4 hours
Seamus - 4 1/2 hours

All inductions. The breaking of the water was critical each time to speed things along.

[Hilary]

Madelynn - from water breaking at home to her birth was 12 1/2 hours.

Ava - Went to the hospital at 10 pm because I thought I might be in labor. They broke my water at 7 and she was born at 8! So about 10 hours.

[gulp!]

Emma- 20 hrs.
Krishan- 1 hr, 45 minutes

[bunybomb]

Dylan - 11 years :lol: Her adoption was final on 4/17/05.
Alex - 7 hours to have an emergency c-section.

[TtownAnne]

From water breaking to a baby to hold was 4.5 hours.

[Lynn]

First contraction to baby born was 8 hours.

[Cami]

From the first contractions to baby:

12 hours (incl. 2 hours of pushing)
5 1/2 hours (1 hr pushing)
2 1/2 hours (2 min. pushing)

[Clare]

Emily around 11hrs
Harry around 9hrs
Sam 6 3/4hrs

[Jayne]

My water broke at 10am with Tylor and I had him at 8:52 so 10 hrs 52 minutes.

With Alyssa I was induced. They started me at 4:30pm on Monday and I had her at 2:07pm on Tuesday. It is kinda hard to say when Labor actually started. But it wasn't really a long labor at all.

[Alyson]

They induced me at 6:30 am and Brookelyn was born at 2:17 pm so roughly 7.5 hrs.

[Alysia]

First contraction to baby's arrival was 14 hours. It wasn't bad until my water broke though. From the time my water broke to baby's arrival was about an hour!

[Eva]

Emma: 12 hours (I was induced) and then c-section after pushing.
Christine: 0 hours. :lol: She was a scheduled c-section.

[Bev]

Mason: roughly 5½ hours after I knew for sure I was in labour.
Graham: roughly 1 hour 10 minutes from first contraction to delivery.

[Melissa]

8 hours unmedicated, 5 hours of medicated bliss (with the Pitocin up to 11 :giggle: ) and then a c-section.

[Barb]

Liam: about 20 hours
Norah: 3 hours

[Lora]

Christopher - 27 hours of after initial induction to an eventual emergency c-section

Patrick and Nathan - No labor, scheduled c-sections

[Elisete]

Graham: roughly 1 hour 10 minutes from first contraction to delivery.

OMG! Serious?

From the first contractions to baby:

Ted - 22 hours (incl. 5 hours of pushing)
Sam - 11 hours (2 hr pushing)
Ben - 5 hours. No pushing. I sat up and he came right out. He was the only one where my water broke on it's own. Labor started about 30 minutes after it broke.

[Kimberly]

13 1/2 hours (including 1 1/2 hours of pushing)

[Jillian]

Depends I guess, from water breaking or from first contraction?

Janelle- about 65 hours from water breaking to her being here, 56 hours from pitocin starting to her being here, 52 hours from first real contractions to her being here.

Kincaid-35 minutes from water breaking to him being here, 10 minutes from first contraction to him being here.

Travis- umm about 2 hours from water breaking to him being here, 40 minutes from first contraction to him being here.

I prefer the 2 hour/40 minute labor to the others, 2 days was pure hell, and 10 minutes was way to fast, it hurt a whole lot more than 40 minutes did.

With Janelle I pushed for 6 hours, with both boys I pushed just once...it was for less than 10 seconds with Caid and supposedly around 3 seconds with Travis, but I don't know how the nurse knew that, no one was counting as far as I know. All 3 were inductions of some sort, I only needed pitocin with Janelle though.

[AmyP]

21 hours and then a c-section, hopefully this one will be a VBAC!

[Lyoshka]

scheduled C-section, so no labor with Nikita... hoping for a VBAC with the next one.

[Dawnie]

I was induced for all three with pitocin and the OB breaking my water at the same time:

Victoria - 5 hours 15 minutes
Alex - 2 hours 40 minutes
Lauren - about 5 1/2 hours

Dawn

[Bridget]

Caleb - 18 hrs. labor, 2.5 pushing, then c-section. :(
Ahna - 0 hours :) - c-section

I can't top FIVE(oops SIX!!!) hours of pushing though. :faint: I don't know how you lasted that long.

[Jillian]

I was literally passing out between contractions. DH says they couldn't wake me up at all no matter what, then a contraction would come, I'd push, then pass out again.

[Girlo]

Jillian, I thought I was going to hit the record with the longest labor before I read your post! :faint: Holy cow.....

Mine was about 34 hours from my first "cramps" :giggle: at work until Alex being born. I started noticing that my back hurt really bad and I had menstrual cramps around 10am on Wednesday and Alex was born at 8:24pm on Thursday. Yes.....34 hours of back labor. :dead:
Of course, like Alysia, once they broke my water (my only intervention), it was about 1.5 hours from 5cm to baby out! :eek: OUCH!! I only pushed for about 20 minutes.

[EricaW]

I don't think I ever was in labor. :lol: My water broke in the middle of the night and I had a c-section at 8:00am due to complications with my pregnancy. I never felt a single contration.

The next one with also be a c-section. I'm a "Once a c-section always a c-section" type of gal. :)

[Bretta]

Ashley ~ 1 hour 23 minutes (1 push)
Madison ~ 1 hour 3 minutes (4-5 pushes)
Savannah ~ 2 hours 45 minutes (3 pushes)

With all three it was from water breaking to baby born and I was 4cm and 50%-75% effaced with each. Savannah was the only one I felt contractions with before labor. I was set to be induced with each of them but only a few drips of Pitocin and the dr breaking my water and BAM they were here!!!

[schwanda]

18 hours of labor including 9 on pitocin. That was followed by a c section.
Thankfully with Jessica I had 0 hours of labor. Thank God for scheduled c sections! :lol:

Amanda

[~Jenn]

Rory about 4 hours, give or take with the time change (clocks went back that night!).
Teagan about 2, start to finish.

[magoo]

Anna - first contraction to delivery was 11 hours, 19 minutes... but only about 6.5 hours of that was active labour.


Jacob - from the first contraction, well, I was in prodromal labour all day. It was only 2 hrs. 41 minutes of active labour, though.

[Bonnie]

Caroline: probably 12 to 14 hours, 2 pushing, then C-section
Courtney and Tatum: N/A both were scheduled C-sections

[Michele]

With Jackson, my water broke at 6am but I wasn't having any contractions, when we got to the hospital they decided to induce me and he was born at 1:58pm. So I guess, almost 8 hours.

With Anna it was fast - I felt off all day (July 5th) but didn't start feeling contractions until that evening. I wasn't convinced I was in labor until maybe 11:30pm or so - she was born at 12:56am. So I guess with her it was an hour and a half.

[Jillian]

Jillian, I thought I was going to hit the record with the longest labor before I read your post! :faint: Holy cow.....



Yea, but I think I also get shortest. :lol: