Tell me about your labour..?

Question

At how many weeks did you go into Labor?

Was it spontaneous? Natural induction? artificial induction?

If it was induction.. which method was used??

How did your labour start? water breaking? painless contractions?Painful contractions? How many minutes apart were contractions?

How long was the whole labour and delivery process?

Answer 1

I went into premature labor 6 weeks early. I went to the hospital and was given drugs to stop the labor. 3 weeks later, the day after the dr stopped the drugs, I went into labor. I pushed for 48 hours. I ended up having a C-section. My son arrived at 8 pounds (for 3 weeks early he was huge!) and was airlifted to a larger hospital because his lungs were slightly underdeveloped. But today he is 8, and healthy. :)

Answer 2

I have 4 childern and i was induced with all of them and i was in labour for 1 to 2 hours with all of them. i was very happy

Answer 3

i was induced at 40 weeks 2 days:-) I had pitocin and cervedil (sp?) and an amniotomy, The contractions were not too bad until they broke my water, thats when the games began! Contractions stayed about 1-2 min apart, this was my first labor and it only lasted 7 hours with 14 minutes of pushing, has epidural after 5 hours. GOD BLESS!!

Answer 4

Baby #1-water broke at 40 wks. (one day before the due date), mild contractions started immediately, and got very intense within a couple of hours.  My son was born 9 hours later.

Baby #2-At 40 wks (also one day before due date) woke up out of my sleep having mild contractions, went to the hospital after about two hours when the contractions started coming stronger and fater.  My daughter was born 6 hours later.

Baby #3-was induced because she was due on Christmas and it was the doctors idea (im guessing thats not where he wanted to be on Christmas) I was give Iv drugs at 6 that morning, he broke my water, and I had my daughter at around 3 that afternoon. (easiest of all pregnancies)

Baby #4 is due Sept. 16

Answer 5

ok, first daughter.. spontaneous, labour 24-25 hours

woke up at 7am at 37 weeks with bad stomach ache like bad period pains, this came on and off for most of the day, finaly realised at 3pm that it was labour! Had a show an hour later,

Contractions got closer and closer together, went to the hospital when they were 5 minutes apart, had my waters broke, had an epidural, laboured all night and had my 5lb 3oz daughter at 7.54am

2nd daughter. spontaneous, labour abour 22 hours

41 weeks pregnant, was watching tv at 9pm on the night, got shooting pains up my legs.

went to bed, 1am got my first contraction, every 10 minutes apart, had a shop a while later,

laboured most of the day until 5pm when the pain got too bad so went into hospital,had an epidural, they broke my waters, and at 11.11pm i had my 9lb 4oz daughter.

3rd daughter spontaneous (after membrane sweep) labour 5 hours 40 minutes.

42 weeks pregnant! went to the midwife for a stretching of the membranes as i was 2 weeks over due,

that night at 10pm i had a show, 2 hours later the contractions started, every 5 minutes apart, went into hospital at 5am, had an epidural, they broke my waters and at 5.40am i had my 10lb 2oz daughter!

My labours and deliveries were vertually identical!

the labours just got shorter,

im pregnant with my 4th which was due 3 days ago, and im hoping i have the same sort of labour and delivery!!

Hope this helps

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Answer 6

Baby #1.  36 HOURS  LABOR  (notice correct spelling!)    of that 36 hrs, 12 HARD LABOR,  of that 12 hrs.  3 Hours HARD PUSHING LABOR.   Heart tones dropped down low,  had to be a forceps delievery. OUCH.........PAINFUL...........  feels like the Dr. is pulling a BOWLING BALL OUT OF YOUR CROTCH!   NO DRUGS!

Baby #2.  18 HOURS LABOR, of that 18 hrs, 3 hrs hard labor, of that 3 hrs, 1 hr hard pushing.   NO DRUGS!  YES, PAINFUL!

Baby #3  8 HOURS LABOR, of that 1 1/2 hrs hard pushing labor, NO DRUGS.........YES, PAINFUL!

Answer 7

40weeks 2days when he was delivered but contractions started the day before.

Spontaneous

Contractions that felt like mild period pain for a full day they gradually started getting more often and a little more painful until 2am when my waters broke as soon as that happened I though I was getting stabbed in the stomach and I can honestly say the pain didn't get any worse from then until 11am when he was delivered.

Answer 8

First

I was due on Jan 28th went in on the 29th to help things along.  Started with a vaginal suppository at noon.  My water broke at 11:00 PM.  Labor hit hard then with contractions being every 2 to 3 minutes.  I had back labor and it hurt a lot (only during a contraction).  I dilated to 5 and then my body stopped.  At about 6:00 AM I started having the feeling I needed to push, Dr. came in and said NO!  I went in for an emergency C-section at 7:00 AM.  Dr. said we were within minutes of loosing both the baby and myself.  I had begun to have internal hemorrhaging and my little man was basically gone at delivery.  He was rushed off and with a lot of great Dr.'s he came around.  My son is 10 years old now and is doing great.  

My second was a planned C-section on May 26th I was due June 4th.  

Answer 9

With my 1st my water broke at 12:30am ( on my dd ) went to hospital induced me and gave birth at 11:00 am . I had a very easy delivery but did try to go natural but had severe back labor - I opted for Demerol and a epidural. I'm hoping this pregnancy will be just as easy - w/o the back labor though .  

Answer 10

2 full term babies.  Spontaneous. One came in 30 minutes.  The other in 40.  Water broke on both before contractions which were short.  My deliveries are short which is probably a blessing.

Answer 11

WELL... IT WAS MY FIRST TIME, AND I ENDED UP GOING OVER MY DUE DATE... THEN THE NEXT WEEK WENT TO THE DR. STILL NOTHING... WAITED ANOTHER WEEK (TWO WEEKS OVER DUE BY THEN) AND FINALLY HE SAID "CAN YOU BE BACK HERE AT 5?" AND I KNEW THE NEXT DAY I'D HAVE A BABY IN MY ARMS... I WAS SCARED AND EXCITED!!!

SO WE WENT BACK TO THE HOSPITAL AT 5, THEY GAVE ME SOMETHING TO START SOFTENING MY CERVIX...

THE NEXT MORNING, THEY STARTED ME ON THE DRIP TO START MY CONTRACTS AND BROKE MY WATER... VERY UNCOMFORTABLE... I HAD MOSTLY BACK LABOR, I DID TAKE MEDICINE, I RECOMMEND THAT. FINALLY AFTER BEING IN LABOR, LIKE 5 HOURS, THEY GAVE ME AN EPIDERRAL... I WENT ANOTHER 2 HOURS IN LABOR AND NEVER GOT DILATED OVER 4!!

SO THEY SAID, YOU CAN KEEP BEING IN LABOR OR WE CAN DO A C-SECTION... I SAID GIVE ME THE C-SECTION...

I HAD HER AT 7:40 PM THAT NIGHT... SHE WEIGHED 8 LBS 7 OZ... MY HUSBAND GUESS EXACTLY RIGHT!! SHE WAS A BIG BABY, AND I AM SMALL... SO I PROBABLY WOULD'VE ENDED UP HAVING ONE EVENTUALLY ANYWAYS...

MOST BEAUTIFUL BABY EVER... HER POOR LITTLE NOSE WAS SMASHED TO THE SIDE BECAUSE SHE WAS SO BIG...

ALL THIS HAPPENED ON VALENTINE'S DAY!! =)