Moms that have had fast labors, come on in please! - Page 2

[starbyfar7]

Originally Posted by KindRedSpirit

#1-2 hrs.20 min.
#2-8 hrs
#3-13 hrs (stuck,did some yoga, birthed 20 min later.)
#4-6 hrs
#5-5 hrs

All at home, the last 3 in water.

The best advice I have,is if you are having a fast labor,get in water!It sooths, can slow(#5 would have been 3 hr labor, but I got in the pool)and best of all, the tearing is so much less!(from my experience.)

so you're saying if i want a faster labor, stay out of the water ??? lol the last thing i want is to "delay" the labour process!

[Cutie Patootie]

#1 - 55 hours of hospital interventions.
I will forever believe they were totally unnecessary and I'll always wonder what his birth would have been like. Because of all the interventions, I just scraped by a c/s.

#2 - 4 hours from start to finish. Home birth. Never checked dilation.

#3 - 1 hour from start to finish. Home birth. Accidental unassisted. Never checked dilation.
My water broke and it didn't register. I was just getting up to use the bathroom and then went back to sleep for 30 minutes before I woke in transition and ds was born 30 minutes later. So, technically it was 1 hour from start to finish, but really it was only 30 minutes. I only remembered later that when I had gotten up to use the bathroom that I felt a small "pop". In my haze, I just crawled back into bed. I remember thinking, "did I not wipe myself well enough...DID I PEE ON MYSELF???" Then I fell right to sleep...wet, even! LOL

I don't expect this baby to come fast, but I am sure hoping for a trend.

[Tumble Bumbles]

I'm counting labor from when contractions weren't fun anymore and I couldn't really laugh and joke through them or carry on happy conversations....when I had to concentrate through them/breathe etc.

So, based on that, from start to finish was about 6 hours, which my midwife seemed to think was pretty fast. I pushed for about 10-15 minutes. Natural home birth.

[nadia105]

Well, I have had one fast and two not so fast, for me it seems to depend a LOT on baby's position!

#1 13 hours, posterior
#2 5 hours well positioned
#3 14 hours, hand up on face

Needless to say, I am really going to work on baby positioning this time! #2's birth really didn't hurt, it was just intense. #3's totally made me understand why people take drugs for labor pain (I didn't, but I suffered a lot during that one).

[hawthornehill]

my firstborn was 2.5 hours from very first sign of labor to he was in my arms.

my second was even quicker...1.5 hours

with my third, labor started the same, but stalled and i was in labor for 36 hours at home. i reached 7cm within two hours and stayed there for two days! very exhausting. but luckily still born at home with no interventions.

[L&K'smommie]

My first was 12 hours start to finish(dialated to 3cm before going into labor(took me the first 10 hours to dialate to 5cm...from there it was fast.)
My second was 3.5 hours start to finish(dialated to 5cm before going into labor)
My third was 2.5 hours start to finish(dialated to 3cm before going into labor) he was born in the water at home and I have a feeling it would've been faster if I hadn't gotten into the tub.

[MaerynPearl]

1 - 21 hours
2 - 8 hours total, 3 between when i was still questioning if i was in labor and when i had her
3 - 12... no doubt i was in labor but about 4 hours before she was born I was questioning if i was progressing because by then I had had my #2... #3 was my only homebirth (so far) but all three were drug-med free and #2 and #3 were everything-free... not even IV. #1 was induced and I have vowed to never put myself through that torture again, it hurt so much worse!

longest pushing phase was #1... several contractions worth... #2 was around 5 pushes... #3 was about 3. #1 and #3 flew out of me (literally air-born lol) and #2 would have if the bed and nurses hands weren't there.

[karanyavel]

#1 - 1 hr 45 minutes, 5 min. of which was pushing (no pit or anything)
#2 - 6 hrs, induced (pit/AROM) @ 37 weeks on an unfavorable cervix, 1 push
#3 - Ask me in Feburary

--K

[Hope4six]

Here's mine.
First - just shy of 17 hours (3 pushing), with an epidural that numbed me way too much - born @41 weeks
Second - 12 hours, pushed with only one contraction, had a "walking epi" - born @ 33 weeks
Third - 10 hours, several of which I had horrible back labor, pushed for three contractions, had an epidural that numbed only my legs (for 8 hours! I swore off drugs at that point) - born @ 39 weeks
Fourth - 4 hours, 45 minutes, pushed for an hour 15 minutes because they made me lie flat on my back - no drugs that time - born @ 40 weeks
Fifth - 2 hours, 45 minutes, pushed just a bit with one contraction, and then pushed for real with the next one - at home, no drugs - born @ 39 weeks
Sooo...I think that if my body does all the prep work that it's been doing during my last few pregnancies, this next one will come rather quickly. My third took as long as she did simply because she was posterior, I think, and they kept me lying down in bed.
In my experience, being active during labor really helps to speed it up, and really helps with the pushing stage. Pushing while squatting was a revelation!

[3xMama]

#1 was 26.5 hrs, induction, with 3 of those hrs pushing
#2 was 4 hrs of active labor with about three hrs of very light very sporadic contractions before that

Given the huge difference in time, I'm really curious what my first labor would've been like had I not been induced. I'm also really curious what's going to happen with #3 come Feb. I don't want to freak out and call the midwife too soon, but I really don't want a repeat of what happened last time where she barely made it with 20 minutes to spare.

My midwife did say that third labors tend to be longer than second labors, but I'm not sure I want to push that too much!

[kittywitty]

#1- 25 hours natural
#2- ~8 hours induced
#3- ~6 hours induced
#4- ~8 hours natural UC with posterior baby and waterbirth.

I'm hoping for another 6 hour labor. Sounds weird, but I need time for my mom & midwife to get here! My mom had one 1 hour labor with her #3 and the rest of us were 36-8 hours long (including #4!). Don't know what the deal is with that one!

[MyFullHouse]

I haven't had an *exceptionally* fast labor yet, but it's something that's definitely on my mind.

They've been 30-something hours, 8 hours, 6.5 hours, and about 16 hours. That last one involved cord issues that I think played a big part. Being an hour from the hospital and often home alone with 4 kids, I really hope for nothing shorter than 4 hours. I'll put in a bid for 5.

[broodymama]

DS1: 9 hours from AROM, 3 hours of active labor
DD1: 2 hours from 1st contraction to baby
DD2: 2 hours from 1st contraction to baby
DS2: 24 minutes from 1st contraction to baby

#4 was a wild ride!

[mom61508]

Sounds like position in key! Is there anything you can do to help baby get in the right position?

[L&K'smommie]

Originally Posted by mom61508

Sounds like position in key! Is there anything you can do to help baby get in the right position?

The chiropractor helped me a lot

[crazyms]

#1 was 7 hrs start to finish (Water broke and I was having a 'backache' that started getting worse. Went to the hospital 2 hrs later when I started feeling it more; pushed about 15 min?)

#2 was 5 hrs start to finish (Had prodromal labor before though and had been dilating little by little for over 2 wks)

#3 we'll see in April!

I really would like to hear more about the positioning!

[crazyms]

I have heard the theory that subsequent labors are faster and babies are larger. I know we haven't been tracking the weight but it was true with mine.

#1 my 7 hr baby was 5lb2oz
#2 my 5 hr baby was 6lb14oz
#3 debuts in April

[Lit Chick]

nak
my first i had 12 hours of "labor" but only 4 was what i considered labor. bloody show and contrax that felt like menst. cramps 12 hrs before that gradually increased. 4 hours before birth my water broke and things got fuzzy. pushing stage felt pretty long to me since i did not feel any urge to push, but MW gave me a target sensation and after a little work he was here. it was not that bad. transition felt like forever, and i remember being so hot during pushing, but it was not that hard or painful.
With #2, i had 1 hour from backache to baby. it was insane. i thought i would go fast but still have plenty of warning, like with ds1. only warning i got was a foul mood the day before. woke up with a backache, 15 min later knew i was in labor, and after that it was just one massive slam of contrax afetr the other. i thought i was in for hours of that so i was pretty freaked out. at the 45 min mark i yelled to dh that it felt like transuition but it could not be, lol, but it was. as soon as that passed i was totally calm and relaxed. got the urge to push, and ds2 was born in 2 super gentle, easy pushes with not so much as a skid. i was 100% intact. mws got there about 30 min after he was born.

ETA - both boys were almost exactly the same size. DS1 was a half ounce heavier and 1/2 in taller.

[MaerynPearl]

Originally Posted by crazyms

I have heard the theory that subsequent labors are faster and babies are larger. I know we haven't been tracking the weight but it was true with mine.

certainly not true for my mother or myself.

I was moms #2 at 9 lbs... all the others were smaller than me with the last two (of 5) being the smallest (not twins, born 2 years apart but same size)

for me

#1 was 7 lb 3 oz (21 hour induced labor)
#2 was 7 lb 9 oz (8 hour labor, 3 that actually felt like labor)
#3 was 7 lb 6 oz (12 hour labor)

[mamabearsoblessed]

#1 was 21 hours~ about 17 active, weighed 7.3
#2 was 17 hrs, weighed 8.9
#3 was 12 hrs~ about 6 active, weighed 7.2
#4 was 1 hour 24 mins!!, weighed 8.6