I am A+. With DS, he was a scheduled c/s (placenta praevia) but I went into labour early with him with my waters breaking and contractions starting immediately after. When I got to hospital my contractions were 5 min apart and the midwives gave me something to stop the contractions until the ob got there. Ob commented it would have been a quick labour if I could have had one.

With DD, regular contractions started about 8:30, went to hospital at 11:30, had VE and found to be 7cm. DD was born at 1:31am so about 5 hours. Ob reckons the next one will be even quicker.

My sister is A+ and her first was 5 hours and her second was 3 hours.