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Re: Mum in labour told to walk home
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Originally Posted by derekgas
, but was only informed fairly recently that the childbearer should be having contractions no more than 17 minutes apart, .
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17 minutes apart!!!!!!! Contractions 17 minutes apart may produce a baby in about 3 days with most first time mums, maybe 2 days with a 2nd or 3rd time mum..  The optimum time to come to hospital is when the contractions are 3-4 minutes apart with a first labour or 4-5 minutes apart with a 2nd or 3rd (or more). Each contraction needs to last longer than 40 seconds to be effective.
Some unfortunate women have precipitate labours (where they labour very quickly, less than 1 hour from start to finish) These labours are rare but it is usually apparrent to the woman what is going on and she will know that she needs to be at the hospital asap... 
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