How dilated can you be without being in "active" labor; other dilation ?s - Page 2

[amymaew]

With Caroline I walked around at 7cm for about a week before she was born. My labor was super quick - 1.5 hours total and an hour of that was pushing.

[ZanZansMommy]

Originally Posted by devon

I just had my third baby and was 8cm without painful contractions - I was hanging out with my hubby and midwives, chatting, watching a movie, etc.

My story is similar. I was actually walking around Target & simply felt pressure, no pain. After walking around for awhile I decided it was best for me to get home (still no pain, something inside me said to get home) So I called my midwife, she decided to come over (she's 45 min away)

By the time she got to the house I was breathing deeply & thought I *might* be in active labor. She asked to checked & I said "yes, as long as you don't tell me where I'm at." So she checks & then says I have to make a call. I hear her tell the other midwife, "you won't make it; she's at 9cm." I was beyond shocked My DS was born 20 min later. Never in my life would I have thought that I could walk around & shop while being 7-8 cm dilated.

[munkeesmama]

With my second I was a good 5-6 cm. and had no contractions when i went to doc. started contracting that day, got to 7 cm. Went to hospital that night, contractions stopped. We started pit to get them going the next morning. With my last baby, i was 6c.m. from 36 weeks on, and not in active labor...

[Jane]

I've certainly had clients walk around at 4-5 cm as multips. The most I've seen was 7 cm, and she went to 41+6 and we induced her with AROM. She really, really, really wanted that baby to come. It's really hard to stretch and sweep a 7 cm cervix. The mechanics of sweeping are not the same at 7 cm! She was doing every single natural induction legend she'd learned of and wasn't getting anywhere, even at 7 cm.

[mamapsychologist]

At 41 wks, I was 7 cm dilated & was stretchy to 9cm. Just BH contractions. Showed up at hosp at OB's suggestion b/c didn't want to have the baby in the car. Didn't feel contractions until after AROM was done.

I've been walking around at 6 cm for a whole week prior & not bothered at all except for occassional BH. This was my 3rd birth & I tend not to feel my contractions during my labors, even though the contraction machine shows my contractions peaking. It doesn't really start bothering me until the pushing stage.

[jeliphish]

This thread is making me loose hope that my baby will come soon LOL.

[TO Doula]

My mother and grandmother had superfast labours. (Alas, I broke the pattern, at least with my first.)

I don't know if she had any cervical checks, but with her third my mom went to the toilet before bed one night and thought to herself "that's not a bm, that's a baby!" They went off to the luckily nearby hospital where she had my brother 20 minutes later.

I've always wondered whether she could really have gone from 0 to baby in 20 minutes or whether she was walking around significantly dilated before that evening. She says she was feeling labour from the bathroom point onward, but not before.

[kalamos23]

I walked around at 5 cm and fully effaced for 2 weeks before finally going into active labor - it still took 48 hours from then until I had DD though... I sure hope #2 is a little bit faster!

[Sijae]

I had really short labors (averaging 2 hours) but I never had VE until I was complete so who knows where I started from. Based on the pain from my first labor I'm pretty sure I started from nothing, lol.

Laura

[MLW430]

I am 38 weeks with my second son, and yesterday was at 5-6 cm.. More than a month ago, I was at 3 cm and 80 percent and have progressed from there, going to 4-5 then to 5 and now 5-6. I have had some BH contractions that, as the doc says, are obviously dilating me, but never turn into actual labor.

A similar thing happened with my first son. I was at 3 cm a month before. A week before his due date I was at 4-5. They finally induced me when I went in two days past my due date with more BH contractions.

This time, I am scheduled to be induced in 8 days, unless I go into labor before then. That is 4 days before my due date. I am afraid of not making it to the hospital in time if I do go into labor; my doc says to call even if my contractions aren't regular but last an hour.

[tarshanel1]

Hw long did u walk round at 7 before labor cuz im7 nd im curious