How long until 4cm dilated?

I’ve just had a stretch and sweep and was 1cm dilated - what are your experiences of getting to 4cm and having contractions?

Will it be likely in next few days or something that could take a few weeks?

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I was 1cm on Friday just gone, irregular contractions started Monday 10:30. Went to the hospital at 9pm-ish and I think I was 3cm then, she did a second sweep. My waters ended up breaking at 11:30pm, at some stage I got to 6cm fairly quickly and he was born at 3:01am 😅

it just depends on the person i had 4 sweeps before anything worked my 4th sweep was 30th then started having contractions only 2cm at 11.30pm new year’s eve then at 1.30am on new year really strong contractions n was 4/5cm n had my baby 3 hours later 💕

nope i stayed at 1cm for 3 of them and then the 4th sweep i started feeling cramps then little tightening contractions but were irregular then on the 31st i started getting the contractions every 4 minuets for 60 seconds at a time and was straight upto the hospital x

When I had my sweep I was already 3cm, I stayed 3cm in early labour for a month and ended up nearly 3 weeks overdue before finally going to 4cm, it took me 19 hours after that to fully dilate and that was with them pushing the cervix over his head at 8cm.

A week and 1 day between my first sweep and baby being born! I was in latent labour for days then thought I was there as they were every 4 mins for an hour, got there and still only 3cm and still some thickness. They broke my waters and baby was born in the pool 2 hours later

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