When to go to hospital for birth of 2nd child

[~Raven~]

You'll know

My DH was all antsy but I kept telling him to wait. We went to bed and an hour later I woke up to "those" contractions and knew it was time. He was born a tad over 2 hours later.

We had a 10 min trip to hossie though so could fly in quickly if things moved faster than the first time. Which thy did lol!

[Visitor7]

I went in when my contractions were about 3 min apart and they were beginning to be unbearable. I had a 6 hour labour with my second, and was in hospital for 3 hours.

[~clover~]

With my 2nd I planned on waiting til the contractions were only 5 minutes apart, even though I was a 40 minute drive from the hospital.
I ended up having contractions on & off for 20 hours though. Then when they became regular they were 30 minutes apart, but they were unbearable, so I woke DH up to go.
As soon as I did they hit 5 minutes apart. I got to the hospital at about 3am, 7cm dialated & she was born at 7.08am. So we were still there for 4 hours.