They say your labor gets shorter every pregnancy

[Bananation]

Well i had my second baby today and it was not shorter than my first. My first was only 3 hours, waters broke at home and everything. Second was in established labor for 5 hours, they had to brake my waters and had an episiotomy. I started with painful contractions around 11 pm, i decides to leave to the hospital at 3 am

 

[winterbabies3]

Ds1 my waters broke and was in labor for 7 hrs

Ds2 I had prodromal labor for 8 days and once active labor it was a lil less than 4 hrs.

Dd will be here soon, so I will update then.

 

[Oldermummy78]

I had 24 hour labours pretty much with all mine
Except for my 2nd baby which was c section!
Let's hope this ones nice and fast

 

[Laucu]

1st was 13 hours
2nd was 7 hours

I am hoping the 3rd won't be too quick, I am worried about getting to the hospital :-/

 

[Rhi_Rhi1]

I am starting to freak out a little bit about not making it on time now... my midwife hasn't really said anything. She didn't really seem fussed with my speedy deliveries. After a quick Google I have found that alot of women are advised to have home births. Maybe I'm too early on but the only talk of birth so far was at 20 weeks when she said "are u happy to give birth at the local hospital" *ticked a box on her computer* and that was that .... now I'm a bit worried about it but don't know how to bring it up...

1St - 4 hours
2nd- 1.5 Hours

I'm worried my third will be like 45 mins and I'm 20 miles from the hospital :/

 

[ElmoBumpToBe]

I'm quite worried about getting to the hospital, my first was induced and took days, my second was around 8 hours but would have been more like 6 if not for the two hours pushing because of his cord holding him back, but my third was only 3 hours from my water breaking to delivery, probably only 2.5 hours from first construction and we live about 25 minutes from the hospital, more in traffic and hubby is going to need to do a half hour journey (hour in traffic) home from work to pick me up and go the hospital! X

 

[mumandco]

I'm having a home birth-I did with the 3rd..I refuse to get into my car and risk giving birth in there lol. Only just made it to hospital with ds2. I'm currently under consultant care but my midwife is backing me that as long as the risks are low that I will not be going to hospital. Though I'm hoping to be discharged from consultant care at 32 weeks

 

[bombshellmom]

Well both my labors were about the same amount of time ladies!!! So it just goes to show everyone and every pregnancy is different

 

[mum22ttc#3]

#1 was 3 hours 40 minutes #2 was 3 hours 20 minutes #3 was 3 hours and 10 minutes and #4 was about 2 hours 10 minutes although the hospital had me down for less.
I'm actually hoping this one goes back up a little maybe to about the 3 hour mark as I am a little worried about making it in time. I have 4 kids to get looked after and sort and the hospital is 30 minutes away :/