Second time labours.

Just out of curiosity.
How long was your first labour and how did it start?

and how long was your second and how did it start?

and third and fourths......I you have them.

I'm just sort of seeing if it's going to be the same, shorter or longer....etc

How long was your first labour and how did it start?
From waters breaking (very first sign of labour) to birth 16hrs

and how long was your second and how did it start?
From show to birth 5.5hrs. However the sow was at 9pm and I had been having contractions building from mid-morning however they weren't that bad as I had thought they were BH!!


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1st - 1 week of constant contractions, then from waters breaking to birth 6.5 hours (lots of intervention, bad birthing experience due to position, PET)

2nd - 47 hours, active (less than 10 mins apart regularly) 3 hours, waters breaking to birth about 45min. No drugs other than a bit of gas, perfect birth.

I can't believe how I could have such completely different births (and #2 was nearly a pound heavier than #1)

Tastic wrote: 3rd labour - waters broken - Adele born 53 minutes later - 8lb 10oz

Holy crap that is fast! Did your waters break naturally? Or did you have some build up?

That is my fear of another baby, it would come way fast.

AandCsmum wrote: Tastic wrote: 3rd labour - waters broken - Adele born 53 minutes later - 8lb 10oz Holy crap that is fast! Did your waters break naturally? Or did you have some build up? That is my fear of another baby, it would come way fast.

I was at the hospital on monitoring when they examined me cause they were going to induce me with the gel and well he said he could break my waters there and then. he waited a couple of hours and came back and broke them. and yeah she was born 53 minutes later (much to everyones surprise!)

How long was your first labour and how did it start?
I was induced in hospital at 7.30, waters broke at 11 and he was born at 4.08am
9lbs 9oz

and how long was your second and how did it start?
Started naturally at home... laboured there from 11am - 3pm. Waters broke at 3.30 she was born at 4.25pm
9lb 6oz

and third
4th Sept - Mild contractions at home from 10.30 until 2am
Waters broke at hospital at 5cm's dilated
contactions stopped at 8am
MW intervened with drips and epidural contractions started back up after that at 10am-ish
He was born at 12.08pm 5th Sept
7lb 2oz

First was 12 hours all up, 3 hrs established labour, 15 mins pushing. DD was 7 p 3 had a 2nd degree tear, all drug free birth.

DS was 19 hrs all up , 4.5 established labour, 15 mins pushing. Was a home waterbirth only had one tiny tear no stitches, he was 8 p 11

ds1 - started very slowly lasted 13hrs - 7lb 2oz - 10days early
ds2 - started suddenly and lasted 50mins - 8lb 8oz - 11days late
ds3 - a bit slower to start lasted 3 or 4 hrs - 6lb 14oz - 2days later
ds4 - started very suddenly and was 2.5hrs - 9lb 5oz - exactly 2wks late

they were all very simular as waters didnt break til i was already pushing, ds2 was already out and his sac was still intact.
only with 1 & 2 did i have any show and it was both 2 days b4 labour started
ds1's labour was only long as he was posterior
and ds3 wasnt as quick coz his head was in wrong position, and all 4 came with out any intervention. though ds4 was very close

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LOL Emma. Go on have another.

Thanks ladies, this is interesting. I suppose this critter will just come on it's own then.

How long was your first labour and how did it start?

Spontaneous; officially it was 3 hrs 56min BUT I was having back pain for about 12 hours before he was actually born. having said that, the night before he was born I had a bath and two panadol and the pain w ent away....which I was told meant I WASN'T in labour. LOL

 how long was your second and how did it start?

I was woken out of a DEAD sleep by a contraction at about 5:45, midwife was rung at about 5:50, had to ring her back less than 10 minutes later and tell her to hurry up. LOL She arrived at about 6:30 I think (wasn't really paying attention, the backup midwife for the baby missed the birth by about 15 minutes)He was born at 7:56am.....so all up that makes it 2hrs 16min? It's all a bit of a blur,as precipitous labours usually are, but I think it was officially 1hr 26min. I don't have a copy of my notes though so don't know if she counted my labour starting from when I rang her the first (or second time) or when she arrived and realised I was actually in labour. LOL

Ooh and I actually found DS2's birth way easier than DS1's birth.....even though he was 1lb 7oz heavier, 5 cm longer and his head was 3cm bigger.

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