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[Taurean]

After re-reading what I just wrote, there are a few similarities with my two labours.
- My waters spontaneously broke at home with both our girls
- both labours started and ended during the day (one AM and one PM)
- DD1 came at 38+5 and DD2 at 38+4
- active labour was quite different though

DD1
- mild contractions for about an hour from 6-7am
- waters broke around 7.20am
- contractions were instantly 5 mins apart
- arrived at the hospital by 9am and contractions were 3 mins apart by then
- tough posterior labour with over an hour of pushing
- DD1 was delivered with the vacuum at 3.10pm


DD2
- lost a lot of plug that morning but no contractions, niggles, nothing!
- waters broke while vacuuming around 2pm
- only 2 mild contraction between 2 and 3.30pm and nothing really at all registered when I was monitored in the birth suite and was only 3cm dilated
- mild back pain started just after 3.30pm, midwife suggested a walk
- first major contraction hit around 3.50pm and they were instantly 3 minutes apart
- returned to the birth suite at 4pm in agony, contractions were on top of each other.
- DD2 was born 37 minutes later and only took about 3 pushes

So for me I can't imagine my waters not breaking spontaneously, going into labour at night or going into the 39th week! Lol. Time will tell when we have a third I guess

[JLeigh29]

DS labour started around 10pm...laboured all day and DS was born via ECS at about 11pm the next night. I was exhausted after being up all day before going into labour, had horrendous back labour throughout and spent most of my time at the hossy.

With DS2, labour started at 3am - I'd had a decent sleep and focused on resting in the morning while I could - I didn't sleep until later on when I had my one minute power naps between contractions, but I was really conscious of conserving my energy as it was exhaustion which started the cascade of interventions that led to my previous CS. Laboured at home until 2:30ish before heading to hossy. DS2 was born at 4:15pm. Def prefer this to my first as I was at home for most of it and well rested too.

[RainbowRiver]

DD1 started around 1am and was born at 1130am
DD2 started around 6pm and was born a bit after midnight
DD3 started around 2am and was born just after 5am
DS started around 1am and was born at 430am

apart from DD2... All my babies shared a common theme of starting and delivering around the same time