Quote Originally Posted by luckies4me
Well I stayed up most of the night last night timing myself. I was having contractions about every 6 minutes, and some I only had a break for about 2 minutes between, and then they vanished! Poof! They just stopped. So I was able to sleep pretty well after that at least. All I know is I'm not going back to the hospital until I know 100% that I need to go. I'll be 100% on Monday after they break my water or induce me.

Does anyone know how long it takes after a shot of pitocin for labor contractions to kick in? Does it always start out rough?
yes they start right away but it didn't hurt at all until a couple hours into it. Once they start Pitocin it goes quick, but contractions, at least for me, were VERY easy to work with until about 3 hours from Quinn being born. My labor was 10 hours total, so about 7 hours were very easy to work threw (at least for me). They became excruciating about 3 or 3.5 hours before I had my baby laid on my chest. Good luck and my thoughts are with you