Informed Pregnancy Podcast with Dr. Elliot Berlin. She shared how she immediately texted her midwife when her water broke around midnight, then explained that the labor process lasted about three hours after she began having contractions. [I heard] third babies can be your wild card, where your contractions will like come in, and then they ll go away, and then come in, and then they ll go away, but not like with any kind of consistency, the 33-year-old mom of three explained. So I was, like, already annoyed that nothing was happening all day, so I was trying not to get my hopes up.