Question for those who had an induction first then a natural labour

[Mummato2]

I am just trying to work out if the length of time for a second natural labour will be comparable to a first induction (hmmm....doesn't make sense)

I had an induction with my first child and he was a 6 hour labour from start to finish. I have heard that second labours are usually shorter, but does that apply if you had an artificial labour first?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Visitor7]

I was induced with the drip for first labour (9 hours), second labour was 6 hours (natural).

[Olive]

first labour was 33 hours from waters leaking to birth, was induced after 27 hours
second was 16 ish from waters leaking to birth, it was an AWESOME birth!

[Freya]

My first two were early inductions; ds1 was 38wks & 3hrs, ds2 was 37wks & 90mins.

My last was spontaneous bang on my due date, 2hr1min. Easiest labour by far!

So my non-induced was shorter than my longest labour but not the shortest overall.

[Glamourcide]

My first labour was 4 hours from starting the drip to delivering the placenta (induced). Second labour... well, I'm not sure of the *exact* timing as I don't know what counts as labour, but the business end of things was also very quick. I was 2cm dilated three days before I went into *actual* labour, and was having contractions from about 5pm Saturday afternoon, but I didn't go to hospital until 4am Sunday morning when I was at 9cm and my waters still hadn't broken. Once I had ARM at 10cm, it was very, very quick - bub was born at 7:37am Sunday morning.
Personally, I really only count my 'labour' as starting once I hit 10cm because before that it just felt like Braxton Hicks. Maybe because with my first labour, I didn't have *anything* happen until my waters were broken for me - I went from 1cm to 10cm in less than twenty minutes.

[Jahzara]

First birth - OB broke waters and inserted drip etc at 7.30 am. Baby born at 1.46 pm.

- 6 hrs and 16 mins (Induction)

Second birth - Show at 6.30 am, contractions built up throughout day, 6.00 pm exactly - waters broke, 8.00 pm got to hospital, Baby born at 9.53 pm.

- Just over 15 hrs from when i had my show or 3 hrs and 53 mins from waters breaking (All Natural)

[Queen]

My first labour was induced, labour was 10hrs (from waters breaking) I had gel.
My second labour was not induced, and lasted 5hrs from when I woke from contractions, and 1hr 10min after waters broke.
HTH

[Oorki Galoorki]

1st was induced 8hrs of hell!
2nd was 12 hours of pure bliss

[ezymay]

Great question!! Thanks for asking it. I was thinking about it this morning in the shower (who knows why) because I was induced with my first and want to try to avoid for my second so its good to know it could be shorter and better!!

[Glamourcide]

Haha oh yeah, what Oorki said. Second (natural) labour was technically longer, but was much, much more pleasant than my induced labour!

[BrightSparkles]

I'm SOOOOO glad I found this thread!!!
I had an 18 hour labour with DD - syntocin induced and want to do everything to avoid that with the baby.
I'm so glad to hear others had positive experiences.

[Visitor7]

1st was induced 8hrs of hell!
2nd was 12 hours of pure bliss

My 2nd labour was pure bliss as well. Drug free, I was so in control of it all, and absolutely loved it!

[~shazz~]

My first was induced at 42 weeks from start of drip to 3rd stage was 11 hours

My 2nd was spontaneous and spot on his due date, from first contraction to 3rd stage was 1 hour 53 minutes. way to quick for me i went into shock .. and didn't cope very well at all was completely drug free

my 3rd and final was an early induction at 36 weeks + 4 days due to my health and and from ARM to 3rd stage was just over 2 hours that was with an epidural in situ

[Boo Boo]

First was induced, waters broke and contractions started 2 1/2 hours before DD arrived then second - 1 and a quarter hours start to finish. Second was natural, no drugs, was a great birth.

Laurin

[Mummato2]

Thanks guys!

You have eased my mind.....slowly I am starting to look forward to going into labour this time rather than be petrified that it is going to be comparable and longer than last time!!

[Pandora]

Hi there.
I was induced with my first baby, due to being "post dates". From the time i was in established labour (about 10 hours after the gels were applied) it was about 6.5 hours all up, and 2 of those were pushing.
WIth my second baby I went in to labour spontaneously. The contractions didnt seem so intense either. It was about 3.5 hours in total, and didnt get too painful til the last hour and a half.

[Junglemum]

I was induced with PE with DD1 and labour was about 7 hours. Waters broken & drip.

Natural labour for DD2, labour was about 10 hours , but she was posterior and i had about 4 hours of strong regular contractions without really progressing. Once my waters broke she was born very quickly.

I think there are so many things that can effect the length of your labour. Like your baby's position and your head space. If my DD2 wasn't posterior i feel like i would have had a shorter labour. Maybe that was just wishful thinking.

[kawazuki]

1st induced because of PE 18 hours of hell.
second 20 min. sorry to scare you but yes 20 min frmo go to woah naturally. so yes alot shorter

i also had aot of pre labour then 2 days of no niggles no pain, what i call my quiet before teh storm. then once i went into labour it was great in controll no pain relief and quick