About 15 minutes with a physiological 3rd stage. I didn't notice any contractions, I was too busy focussing on bub. The obs told me to give a little cough, and out it came - the cough was pretty painful, but I had some significant tearing. I did it to help promote breastfeeding/bonding/hormones etc.

I also let bub do the breast crawl, which wasn't until I had been stitched up, which too another 30 minutes or so. Then I was released from the stirrups and could sit up a little further, and DS soon started to make his way to my boob and attached himself. We did a breast crawl/baby-led attachment the first 4 or 5 times he fed, and he was a beautiful latcher, right from the start. Who knows if he would have been anyway, but it certainly didn't so any harm!