Examples of launder in a Sentence. 1  He used a phony business to launder money from drug dealing. 2  had to launder the quarterback's off-the-cuff's remarks before they could be quoted in the newspaper.
When your contractions get closer together, you are farther along in the delivery phase of labor. At the beginning, the tightening or painful part of the contraction will last approximately 30 to 45 seconds, near the end the pain will be longer. A true contraction is usually at least 30 seconds long.
For first-time mums, the active first stage of labour (where the cervix dilates from 4cm to 10cm), lasts an average of eight hours, and is unlikely to last longer than 18 hours. For women who've had a baby before, the average is five hours, and it's unlikely to last longer than 12 hours (NCCWCH 2014) .