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[lovebeingamomma]

What do you expect for your labor this time?  I've heard conflicting stories...will it be super fast...super long...predictions?  My labors have been: 3 hours, 8 hours, 8 hours.  I'm hoping this one is in the 3hour or less category!  The biggest thing I've heard is that prodominal labor gets worse each time; I really do not want days of pre-labor!

[josie423]

I'm 36+2 and started having prodromal labor during the night and it's continued all day today. Fun, lol! My babies were born at 39+3, 40+1, 39 and 38 weeks. With my first three their labors were 12 hours and my last baby was 8. I'm hoping for less than 8 this time. 

[Amor Rays]

My first labor was managed in the hospital, epidural, pitocin, so I'm not sure exactly how long it was, I don't even remember, (probably a standard 14 hours or so). But I only pushed for a few minutes.

Second labor was about 7 hours, but mostly mild and I ended up birthing in the car on the way to the birth center.

Third labor, I slept through most of it.  I went to sleep around 10 pm with mild contractions, woke up around 2 am and she was born around 4:30 am. with two pushes she was out. it was too fast and I tore

Fourth labor, I went into labor around noon, was out shopping at the farmers market, went home around 4pm. Gave birth around 9:30pm.  Funny story with this one, I was feeding all my kids and my midwifes kids and her foster kids dinner. there were 9 kids!!! after they went to bed things picked up.  My midwife was in the bathtub during all this.  LOL

This is my 5th.  I already said in another post that on Sat. I had 14 hours of intense 2-4 minute apart contractions.  I somehow willed them to stop so I could get some sleep, but now nothing.  I've been having months of braxton hicks.  I am now about 4.5 cm and pretty effaced. not sure how much.  But I know several moms here who are on their 4,5,6th baby and they all pretty much say that it doesn't get easier after that many.  I've heard the body takes a while to get back into it.  I'm not sure if it's true but it seems to be lining up for me.  I'm actually hoping a for a slower pushing and delivery stage.  I wouldn't mind if it lasted for 20-30 minutes, rather then one or two pushes.  I almost need to be upside down my body pushes out babies fast, too fast.  

[kittn]

my first labor was 33 hours in a hopsital and full of interventions stuck in a bed.

#2 was 38minutes . I was induced for IUGR  they were shocked it went the way it did.

#3 was about 2.5 hours or so.

#4 was 2 hrs start to finish and by far my very best easiest labor

#5 started with my water breaking at 4:30 in the morning but no real labor until around 6:30. She was born at 10:25 so almost 4hours of labor

[lovebeingamomma]

Originally Posted by josie423 

I'm 36+2 and started having prodromal labor during the night and it's continued all day today. Fun, lol! My babies were born at 39+3, 40+1, 39 and 38 weeks. With my first three their labors were 12 hours and my last baby was 8. I'm hoping for less than 8 this time. 

I'm also 36+2 today, so funny because since I've posted this I've been getting braxton hicks every few min's.  Mild and painless thankfully. 

[etsdtm99]

my 1st was 39 wks, 19 hours from water breaking to baby, hospital birth, pit, epidural, horrible.

my 2nd was induced at 41 wks, 12 hours start to finish.

#3 40+2, was a homebirth, water broke at 3:30am, mild ctx 5-7 mins apart for 5ish hours, then super intense ctx 1-2mins apart for a few hours, 10 hours total,including 2 hours of pushing.. bad tearing from baby getting stuck and the midwife having to pull her out..

I am currently 37+1 with baby #4 .. i am hoping for a short-ish labor,  i liked how the intense part of my last labor was only 5 hours, though i would prefer this time to spend less time pushing and i'd rather not tear so badly, i may be doomed though since a fast pushing phase seems to cause tearing and in my case i seem to tear even with a slow pushing phase..
 

[Amor Rays]

I forgot to mention that I was cut with my first and tore with each one after.

[HouseofPeace]

ha- when i think of this i think i'm crazy to still be going!

#1- 44 hours ACTIVE labor, 1 hr 40 min of pushing.  OP baby boy.  NST, leading to induction, leading to pitocin, leading to epidural, labial tearing, no perineal tearing.

#2- 12 hours labor in birth center (a few at home, and went home in the middle and returned to birth center in middle of night), 5 min of pushing.  7lbs 9oz baby girl.

#3- 12 hour homebirth, 15 min pushing, 8lb 8oz baby girl.

#4- 5 hour homebirth, 20 min pushing, 7lb baby girl.  

no perineal tearing- even in the 5 push 5 minute wonder baby.  

so expecting between 5-12 hours of labor.  i'm not speedy at the laboring, i'm not speedy at the pushing, recovery is usually pretty easy and we've all ended up really happy w/ it all!

[mama3blessings]

#1 boy was born at 37 weeks and labor was about 11.5 hours
#2, boy was born at 37.5 weeks and labor was all together 5.5hrs but only 1.5hrs of painful contractions
#3, girl was born at 39 week, was induced that time. Labor was also about 5.5hrs but again only about 1.5-2hrs of painful contractions

This little one is a boy and I've been having contractions on and off but they aren't painful yet. We shall see if he comes before his due date or changes thing up a bit and comes after. I'm hoping it's a short labor again but hopefully not too short to not make it to the hospital.

[MPsSweetie]

I wonder this all the time, if there's some kind of pattern.
1 was 12 hours from water breaking to delivery, three hours pushing. 1 week prodromal labor. 37w, 4d
2 was 1 hour from water breaking to delivery, my body pushed him out. 3 weeks prodromal labor, 38w, 1d
3 water never broke, he was born 9 minutes after arrival at hospital in the caul, after almost 4 weeks of prodromal labor. 38w, 6d

It's so hard for me to tell when it changes from painful prodromal to actual labor. I am almost 34 weeks and already having it this time.

Who knows! I am hoping for earlier rather than later though, this hurts!