For those who had a less than 10hr labour first time around.....

[SweetPea]

My labour with DS1 was 8 hours, 20 minutes pushing. Labour with DS2 was much shorter, 1 hour and 50 minutes including 10 minutes pushing stage. Seems that most of the time subsequent labours are faster as your cervix has already dilated before and your body seems to remember what it needs to do. I loved my second labour, I'd do it again in an instant!

[Aligater]

DD1 was 1.5 hours spontanious labour
DD2 was 1/2 hour induced on a slow drip just to get contractions started

[Shanti]

Thanks for sharing girls! That's so good to hear.

My labour was full term, spontaneous also

[~Gee_Whizzy~]

My first labour was 7 hours from start to finish (2 hrs of that was pushing!) and my second was 5 hrs (with 15 mins pushing)

[2girls]

DD1 was 8 hours (2 hours pushing) spontaneous at 40+3
DD2 was just over 2 hours (20mins pushing) induced via ARM (no drip as contractions started immediately on waters being broken) at 39+4

[MissM]

Wow, Super thread!!

Subbing but would like to add - I can only comment on my first which from start to finish was 4hrs - hoping for a faster one this time! but that was 9 years ago (Does that make a difference?)