GrannyLaine
Phillip Dampier’s report was 2 days ago. Now, she may possibly be in hospital for induction but that isn’t labour. If she had been “in labour” for 48 hours The Portland or wherever wouldn’t be doing a very good job. And before you all berate me with tales of being in labour for a week, I’m looking at this from a midwife’s perspective which distinguishes prelabour from actual labour.
I was definitely in 'proper' labour for the best part of three days - my notes confirmed this. I'd already had a previous c-section and the consultant said that I should only be allowed to labour for eight hours before they'd do another section. Unfortunately, he was away that week. My own midwife was horrified that they'd let it drag on so long and wanted me to make an official complaint to the hospital.