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First delivery - 2 hours plus. Got her out just in time, they gave me 10 minutes and then they were 'calling a doctor'.
Second delivery - 7 minutes :) That was a shock to the system!
Third delivery - about 9 minutes according to my discharge report. I can't tell you, I was in that much agony I didn't even feel him crown, I only knew his head was out because my mum told me. He was a 10lb bub, posterior and very stuck.
My pushing stage for number 1 was 47 minutes - laying my back with my chin to my chest
May pushing stage for number 2 was 7 minutes - kneeling in a birthing bath with my head on DH's shoulder
I attribute the fast pushing phase on being on my knees
I pushed for 3 hrs with my first.
I now work as a midwife at that same hospital and the policy is pushing for no longer then 2hrs with a first baby. And after 1 hr a O&G has to review the patient. I don't remember ever seeing a Dr until after my birth. Eventually she was born posterior and I had a massive PPH requiring surgery from prolonges pushing and labour which caused the uterus not to contract after she was born.
But with no2 I pushed 2-3times probably all of 2-3minutes and she was born. I was fully dilated for around 30mins before I started pushing but from the first push it was only another 2 and she was out completely. Once that urge was to the point I had to push it was basically all over.
Puching for number 1 don't really know how long, but it didn't feel like long, maybe half an hour max, I was on my knees, so fingers crossed this one only takes 7 mins if the last 2 posts are anything to go by. :lol: