Do all your labours usually start the same way?

[LuluHB]

First was an induction so not relevant

Second started with hind waters breaking. Contractions started after an hour or so but didn't get serious for a while and then we went from nothing serious to baby out very quickly.
Third started with hind waters breaking. Took aaaaaaaages for anything to happen this time but again, once things started happening things moved pretty quickly, although not as quickly as #2

I would say my second and third were very similar, and wonder if DD3's labour would have been around the same speed as DD2's had DD3 not been (and stayed) posterior.

[Babyluv]

First my waters broke at 7:30am and contractions didn't start until 5:30pm. Dd was then born at just after 3am, so roughly 10hrs.
DS I had a week of intense pre labour and then I went into labour at 4:30 am and DS was born just after 7:30am so 3 hrs.

[jellybean88]

First my waters broke spontaneous but I was induced 9hrs later

Second BH after s&s and then they stopped started at lunch the next day but no contractions until 30mins before she was born

[Cricket]

Mine have been similar, but not exactly the same.
I've always been able to tell when we're starting the "real thing" because the feeling of the contractions changes from prelabour to real labour. There's an increased pressure, and more of a "working" feeling, if you know what I mean. The other big clue is that I have always had bloody show at the start of real labour.
So I guess the similar parts have been that they've all been spontaneous, all had bloody show to start, and all have been short once we got going.
The differences have been the time of day, and the amount of prelabour it took before we actually got going.

[Dansta]

I know you said more then two... But....

Dj - soft contractions 5mins apart 26hrs later my waters broke 31hrs later all up dj was born 11days late

Vic nothin, narda zip... Woke up at 2.50am with an ouchy 'period pain' 10mins later... Full blown labour got to the hospital at 4am... 4.41am.waters popped 4.43am vic was shot out (lol) ~10 days late

[~clover~]

Not one of mine were the same in any way.

Dd1, waters broke about midnight, a leak. Contractions started slowly an hour or 2 later. Things slowly progressed from there.

Dd2, contractions on & off for about 20 hours. Bit of back pain. Things went from zero to 100 miles an hour in about 5 minutes! Lol. Waters didn't break. Had ARM about 20 minutes before she was born.

DS, 2 contractions the day before, then nothing at all.
Next morning woke to contractions, waters broke (more than a leak) about an hour later. 5 hours from start it was all over... I was in shock for a bit lol

Dd3 out of 12 hour labour, contractions for about 8 or 9 hours before waters broke. Leak again. Posterior birth!!! Splitting back pain!

All mine were born on weekends lol. Dd1 & DS on Saturdays, dd2 & 3 on Sundays.

All the younger 3 were in awkward positions & gave me incredible back pain, but dd3 takes the cake! (As is often the case )

ETA; my contractions with the boy & the baby never became regular. With both the girls they were, but with the little 2 I'd go anywhere from 2 - 7 minutes between contractions right at the very end.
Nothing like having that 7 minute break to be ripped out of your day dream by 3 on top of each other, lasting forever

[MummyNaomi]

Mine both started with my waters breaking. DD at 2pm, he was born at 11pm that evening after being induced at 8pm due to GBS
DD - waters popped at 350pm, contractions immediately started and she was born at 515pm - very quick after weeks of prelabour

[peanutter]

ETA; my contractions with the boy & the baby never became regular. With both the girls they were, but with the little 2 I'd go anywhere from 2 - 7 minutes between contractions right at the very end.
Nothing like having that 7 minute break to be ripped out of your day dream by 3 on top of each other, lasting forever

Ditto. The hospital didn't believe me that I was in labour for the first day and a half. I was ropable. But the contractions didn't even get regular after the induction, so there you go!

[Early Kids]

With my first I lost all my waters before contractions began about 2-3 days later. With my second I started contracting at 26wks and they manually broke my waters about an hour before he was born. Two very different pregnancies (HG with my first, very little MS with my second), I carried them both differently too and have two boys.

[Rowellen]

Both different here. Contractions for one, waters breaking for the other.

[BellyBelly]

Same for me, slow build-up into contractions. No ROM til the very end.

[SammyRo]

My first two, waters broke both times at about 1am in the morning. DD contractions started properly about 16 hours later and she was born about 15 hours after that (posterior), DS contractions after 24 hours, and then he only took 4hours.
Number 3 woke up in the night at 36 weeks with what I thought was prelabour. by about 8am decided to head into hospital to get checked, but by the time we dropped DD at kindy and DS at my mum's needed an ambulance and she was born in the back of it. waters broke as she came out.

[SammyRo]

My first two, waters broke both times at about 1am in the morning. DD contractions started properly about 16 hours later and she was born about 15 hours after that (posterior), DS contractions after 24 hours, and then he only took 4hours.
Number 3 woke up in the night at 36 weeks with what I thought was prelabour. by about 8am decided to head into hospital to get checked, but by the time we dropped DD at kindy and DS at my mum's needed an ambulance and she was born in the back of it. waters broke as she came out.

[Khaleesi]

All 3 of mine started with my waters breaking once at night & twice in the morning.

[Arimeh]

Argh so some are similar and some are completely different. Wish I could see into the future. I think it worries me that I'll think its labour and its just pre-labour - or I'll just think its pre-labour and its real labour PMSL

Hopefully this will be a nice 5 hour labout that builds up its intensity and I only have a few intense contractions before bubs decides to just yanno, fall out.

[Artechim]

First was induced so doesn't really count, but my two girls were the same. Mild contractions 5-10 minutes apart progressing to 3-4 minutes apart and then a baby comes out. Waters didn't break until birth with DD1 and midwife broke them for me with DD2 and she was born two contractions later. I doze off in the water during labour and don't have much of a pushing stage - 0 minutes for DD1 and 10 minutes for DD2 and most of that was because her fat belly got stuck lol. After three kids, I still don't know what transition is that I hear people talking about!