How To Time Your Labor Contractions

How do I time my labor contractions?

When you start to have regular uterine contractions you should start to time them, or you can have your partner time them (they can look at a watch and write down from when one starts to when the next one starts). Some people fixate on when it starts to when it ends. We're not so worried about whether they last ten seconds, thirty seconds or a minute, but when you're consistently having approximately five to six minutes between the start times of each contraction in your first pregnancy, for two consecutive hours, we recommend you go to labor and delivery. If it's the second pregnancy, or the third pregnancy or beyond, we recommend that you may want to go sooner, because second and third pregnancies tend to occur more quickly. So are deliveries for that matter, so you should probably wait until the contractions are about every nine to ten minutes consistently for two hours before you go to the hospital.