With my first I got to the hospital and was already 7cm dilated, the midwife then broke my waters, don't know why as I'm guessing they wouldn't have been far off breaking anyway. I had a little gas but that just make be want to throw up. Joel was born after around 3 hours of labour, 8lb 6oz (3780gm) 3 days late.

With my second son I was 7.5cm dilated when I got the birth centre, I din't even realise that I had been in labour so that was a good thing. No drugs, posterior baby and was born after roughly 1.5 hours labour. He was 1 week early and weighed 8pound 6 (3785gm) too. Not much difference in weight at all.

Third bub was a planned c section ( i refuse to call it ellective as I wasn't given a choice) so I had no labour. He was born 9 days early and weighed 8lb 1oz (3700gm) I'm sure if he had stayed in there the extra 9 days he would've been as big as the other boys.

Stay tuned and I will be able to update this again soon. Hopefully. Not sure that I really want this labour to be any shorter than my first. I need time to set everything up

Take care
Trish