#1 I had false labour after false labour from about 32 weeks. My waters were buldging from about 37 weeks, and I went into labour early morning and had him later that afternoon, 2 days before his EDD. It lasted 17.5 hours from first contraction to last.

#2 I went into what I thought was labour at mum's house. Last 2 hours and stopped, drove home the next morning. The following morning my waters broke at the shops, very few contractions during the day until later that night where they just hit. The pain was a lot more intense (bubs was posterior), a bit more blood, but from when proper labor started to being born it was about 6 hours!