tasha this is baby number 3 for me and both my girls were right on time although the duration of labor dropped a lot. I was in labor for around 18 hours with my first but only 6 or 7 with my second and was MUCH easier. Everyone keeps telling me since it is my 3rd he will be early but I don't think so just hoping it will be even shorter than the 2nd. Good luck and remember it isn't forever even though it seems like it. ↑
With my first I was in labor for 5 hours and I was exactly 40 weeks. With my son I was in labor for 2 hours and I was 37 weeks. I am now 24 weeks pregnant and am hoping for another fast delivery. ↑
Awesome question and something I've been wondering myself- constantly!! I had my first last November and was in labor a total of 4.5 hours!! I don't know how much faster it could be with my second...I didn't have an epi with my first either. I'm glad it was both fast and natural, but gives me a scary feeling to know it may be fast and furious again.
Best of luck to you! ↑
hey tasha, this is my fourth pregnancy. all my labours have been fairly fast, my first i was induced at42 weeks and labour lasted 4 hrs and second i was 41 weeks and labour lasted 5 hrs and third labour lasted about 4 hrs and i delivered at 39 weeks. this time i am currently 37 weeks and hoping that i go to my due date since i still have a lot that i want to do before the new addition arrives. also the first was horrible pain since i was induced, second was fairly good but still hurt like heck but foudn the pushing horrible and my third was awful all around. i had horrible labour pains, front and back and severe after pains as well. i have never had any type of medication that freezes though i might opt for it this time. epidural i meant. good luck. when are you due? ↑
I am due on Monday, 5 more days, but my first was 9 days overdue and I was induced and it ended in a c-section. Im trying to have a vbac this time so I was just curious. If its anything like its brother its going to be fashionably late! ↑
This is baby no 3 for me.
My first was a day before her due date, and labor was 6 hours from start to finish
My second was a day after her due date, and I labor was 12 hours.Double the first, I was very disappointed.So this one i am sure will be on time, but could be an even longer labor ↑
I just had my 2nd yesterday. I was induced at 1 week past my due date and it was a 4 hour labor with an epi given around 6 cm's. My first was 3.5 hours with one push and the doctors kept telling me yesterday that that just isn't the norm and when I was hanging around 6 cm's and in SO much pain, they said I'm getting the epi and I didn't argue. I'm glad to have experienced it both with and without an epidural and glad both were fast. My first also came one day before his due date, and my 2nd came 1 week later. I think they're comfier inside the second time around and can linger around longer after the due date. He was also about a pound bigger than my first. ↑
My 1st came exactly 1wk late, was a 12.5hr labour & 45mins pushing & she weighed 7lb 9oz. I had gas & pethidine & as the pethidine put dd to sleep, the doctors said my labour may not have taken so long if I hadn't had the drugs :( (wish they told me that might happen BEFORE they gave me the shot).
My 2nd came 5days late, was a 8hr labour & 30mins pushing & he weighed 9lb 3oz. I had a completely natural drug free water birth with him & am convinced that is why it was an easier birth, even though he was so big.
I am currently 27wks preg with #3 & will do my best to go natural again, but either way I hope this one will be an even shorter easier labour. ↑
