What time did labour start for you??

[Krisvee]

Just wondering what time of the day labour started for you all?? Also what were you doing at the time??

I'm sure everyone is very different!

With Louis my waters broke after teaching a dance class at around 3pm in the arvo...(I ended up being induced the next day as labour didn't really establish)...

[Olive]

my waters broke around 6.30am, induced next morning

[{sarah}]

Around 1.00pm for me

[visitor1]

Around 1am for me....and even then the midwife told me i wasnt in labour....for me to prove them wrong!!

[mooshie]

#1 - 3.30am (waters broke) 8am drip to induce labour - 5.06pm dd born
#2 - 5.30am first contraction - ds born at 12.06pm
#3 - 10 pm (water broke after gel induction) - 11.03pm dd born

[Lilly-Pilly]

Contractions started at 6.00pm just after i'd been for a big walk on the beach. Waters broke the next day at about 8.30pm

[~kaos~]

#1 - 11am waters broke, contractions started soon after.

#2 - weird BH type contraction all day, labour kicked in around 11pm

[sethys_mummy]

i had my first contraction at 4am after a HUGE fight with my then boyfriend. they were 10 minutes apart and then my waters broke at 8am... seth wasn't born til 1:40 the next morning... yay for long labour.. not.. lol

[Karina]

Contractions started 3:30 am fri morning. Waters broke on their own at 1:30 sat morning. I was in bed trying to get some sleep and was just dozing off when I had an almighty contraction and felt my waters break. She was born 10:30 that morning.

[Tyige]

DS around 2am, I was induced. DD 1am was sleeping started on it's own my mum had to convince me i was in labour. lol



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[Jacqui]

DS - Waters broke 2.30am - First contraction within 5 minutes

DD - Was induced with Gel 7am - 3pm - 7am (Next Day) - Contractions started 1pm, Waters broke artificially 3pm, born 8pm.

Hopefully this one contracts come first on there own!

[renee84]

7pm on the dot lol. My waters broke and then contractions started within a couple of hours

[~Raven~]

#1 I woke at 7am with a show and it started from there.
#2 I had real contractions start at 10:30pm.
#3 I had real contractions start at 8pm.

I say real contractions as with my last 2 births I had long pre labours which stopped and started so it's hard to put a time on it. I counted it as being strong enough to get me to go to the hospital...

[Krisvee]

Thanks for sharing everyone!! It's so interesting to hear everyones different stories!

Sam - how long were your pre-labours??

[castle]

Three of my labours started in the early morning (5-6 am). One started in the early evening.
My 2nd labour was with a persistent posterior baby. With him I had 2-3 days of pre-labour--very strong but irregular B-H which interrupted sleep. Then the day of, I had more symptoms & regular contractions began at about 10 pm. When I got to the birth centre a couple of hours later I was 7cm! I was so pleased because it was a first VBAC and then I knew I'd have the baby that night.

[Rachel]

Contractions started at 4.55am (I was asleep), waters broke at approximately 6.30am, DD born at 5.31pm.

[*Ali*]

My waters broke at 10:30 pm on a thursday night, my contractions started about 1am @ 3 mins apart and DD was born at 2:24pm pn the friday

[seventh_heaven]

This is from when I first noticed the signs that I was heading into labour:

#1 - 9.00pm night
#2 - 9.30am morning
#3 - 8.00am morning
#4 - 1.30am night (whilst sleeping!)