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Lisha 
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 11:34am |
Just wondering, for those mums who have had two or more babies, what it is like the 2nd time round? Do the contractions hurt as much?? 
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MyMinis
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 11:39am |
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hehe i been thinking the same thing.
i think it just depends
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 11:43am |
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The contractions are definatley the worst thing about having a baby!!
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 12:08pm |
I think the contractions are about the same, but I felt so much more in control of things and had a better idea of what to expect. I even went with less pain relief! 
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 12:28pm |
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I found them more painful 2nd time round. My reason I was slower dilating (my first birth I went from 1cm to 7cm in 45 minutes) so I felt the pain over a longer period of time. But remembering the outcome of the pain got me through.
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 12:32pm |
It was more painful second time round for me. Mostly because it happened a lot faster and was more intense.
On the bright side, it happened a lot faster and I healed up a lot quicker too
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 12:44pm |
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Second time round hurt more for me too, but then again number one was "easy" and there were complications with number two!
I still say that giving birth is the easy bit and that it is the time after that is tricky!
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 12:49pm |
oh i wanted to know the answer to this question!  but now i hear that 2nd timers seem to be worse and considering Bay was quite easy - IM SCARED!!!!  
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 1:15pm |
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I thought the whole thing was better and easier, more cos you know what to expect and don't feel so out of control.
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 1:28pm |
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and then by the third one you just hit up the anaesthetist for an epidural on the way in and sit around reading magazines until it's time to push once or twice....
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 1:47pm |
 emeldee wrote:
and then by the third one you just hit up the anaesthetist for an epidural on the way in and sit around reading magazines until it's time to push once or twice.... |
I was planning on doing that, this round lol
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 3:19pm |
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I found both times the contractions were about the same.. the pushing with Nyah didn't hurt as much though..
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 8:31pm |
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I was hoping the answers would be didn't really feel it baby just fell out.
Ripping open was the most painful for me so I'm hoping I'm nice and stretched so it will be a breeze.
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 8:49pm |
busymum wrote:
I think the contractions are about the same, but I felt so much more in control of things and had a better idea of what to expect. I even went with less pain relief! |
same here, I knew what to expect so no panic etc.... just went with it. 2nd one was so easy. although first was posteria so that could be part of the reason he took so long and hurt more and more pain releif. With 2nd had pethadine but she was out before it worked.
But when I first read the heading I thought 'Hell yes' LOL still hurts.
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 9:23pm |
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Second (and third) time around for me I think wasn't as bad. Mainly I coz I had a much shorter labour (6 hours vs 41 hours first time).
Possibly TMI but I found the actual birth less painful second time too, when Sienna's head was crowing I had a sudden flashback to the incredible burning I had with Maya and thought "stop the bus, I want to get off!" but when Sienna's head was born the burning was way less intense than I remembered. I barely felt Mercedes head at all, I was numb from Sienna's head 3 minutes earlier.
I didn't get the same out of control feeling second time round that I had with Maya either, and coped much better even with no pain relief.
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 9:47pm |
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I found my second a breeze to have how ever the after pain's were awful for the first 12 hour's they were for me worse then the actually birth I have been told that the second you often have worse after pain's.
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 9:53pm |
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I have also heard that too Deb and must admit I did get quite sore after pains with Brooke, Josh I don't think I got any. With brooke the after pains felt like I was having contractions again.
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Posted: 20 April 2007 at 10:13pm |
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yep that's exactly how they felt. For me they were worse then the actually contraction's.
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Posted: 21 April 2007 at 2:18pm |
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My second labour was much more painful and intense than the first but in saying that, the first time the contractions weren't strong enough to get me dilated properly so it wasn't like I had a proper labour - IYGWIM. Whereas the second time, the contractions were really strong and intense from the beginning and nothing at all like the nice comfy ones I had the first time. What a reality check that was!!
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Posted: 21 April 2007 at 4:07pm |
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my second labour was more painful but only because baby was posteria which gives you a lot of back pain which is hard to find releif from. good thing was that labour was half as long 12 hours instead of 22. but when the contractions do come you get the feeling oh crap thats right now i remember.
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2nd time round births? Painful?
