Hi Yvette,

I thought the same thing, about the counting of hours for labour, but my midwife told me they only count the "reular contraction" time, and that your labour starts in earnest fromt the point that you can do nothing else apart from labour........which was from about 4pm.

13 months on and this is the first time I have re-read our birth-story.....so glad this got bumped up as it has bought back some wonderful memories!