Also, visit a healthcare professional about your period if: 1  You havenât gotten your first period by age 15. 2  You donât menstruate for more than 90 days. 3  Your periods start to be very irregular after having previously been regular. 4  Your period lasts for more than seven days. 5  Your menstrual flow is more heavy than usual.
This stage continues until your baby passes through the birth canal, vagina, and is born. This stage may last two hours or longer. Contractions may feel different from the first stage of labor -- they will slow to 2 to 5 minutes apart and last from about 60 to 90 seconds. You will feel a strong urge to push with your contractions.
If you've had a baby before, your labour will probably be far quicker this time around. Active labour is likely to take about five hours, and is unlikely to last more than 12 hours. It may take up to an hour to push your baby out, but often only takes five minutes or 10 minutes.Your midwife will write down the length of your labour in your birth notes.This will probably refer to how long it took for your cervix to open from about 4cm to 10cm (4in).At 10cm, you are fully dilated and are ready to start pushing your baby out.our contractions are likely to happen every three minutes or four minutes and last for between five seconds and 60 seconds. By this time, your cervix will have opened to about 4cm (1.6in). If you're a first-time mum, active labour may take about eight hours.