The ladies I know who went over had long labours and most had interventions due to the large size of their overcooked bubs. My recent labour was quite different to those my mother had even though we both experienced very similar easy trouble free pregnancies.
Best of luck with the labour. If you need one don't forget to ask for the epidural like I did!!!
Sadly Mel I don't think it makes a difference. I was 6 days over when I went into labour with Zander & he was born at 8 days over (36 hour labour). Juliette was 10 days over when I went into labour & hers was 11 hours for me to get to the same point as I did with Zander. (I got to 9cm with both)
Maybe? But not for me.... Matilda was 17 days post EDD and labour was around 20 hoursish and then c/s. Jovie was 12 days post EDD and labour from the first noticable twinge to birth was 12 hours exactly.
Geez.. none of that is too darn hopeful... lol... maybe I'll go with Skye's theory of it being like past family members...
Satya - Thanks, but I won't be having an epidural. It will take away any sensation that I have near my scar, and I want to be able to feel what my body is doing, just in case of uterine rupture. It's the only drug I can't have.
Mel I forgot to say, but for me, as someone who was going through a VBAC and trying to a natural birth I found that I needed the time to go through labour. I needed to have time to get used to what my body was going and to progress on to the next stage. When I was in the shower, time went super quick, next thing it was 2 hours later!!
8 hours would have been better than 12 :P but for me it was perfect. I had an amazing empowered birth.
Labour from waters breaking to birth: 15hours
Labour from when i felt it was definitely labour (i.e. had to breathe through contractions, didn't wonder if it was going to stop again any more, felt like labour in the sense of "work") to birth: 6.5hours.
Active labour from medical standpoint (4cm-birth): under 4 hours, BUT at 2.30pm i was dilated 2-3cm, 50% effaced. From about 2pm i felt a bit pushy and was moaning to avoid pushing (DD was a bit posterior) and i continued to do so until the birth (by the birth i was ROARING so i wouldn't push though). I HONESTLY gave only ONE push i got behind with my diaphragm (it was agony not pushing when my body told me to, i don't recommend it) and she was already born to her ears by then and shot out. If i had pushed 3x/every contraction (or even just when i felt like it) i reckon i'd have given birth about 2 hours earlier. About 3pm, after the midwife had gone back to the hospital to get a mouthpiece for the entonox tank, i got on my knees, felt a rush of fear, a sharp pain inside and i pooped. NOW i know this was DD's head descending into the birth canal, if the midwife hadn't JUST told me i had hours to go i'd just have pushed and had her. As it was fear (of pushing on an undilated cervix) held me back.
When i lay down for my 2nd VE and DD's head was half out the MW dropped hertube of KY
I hope you get a quick one hun, but first labours can be long. THings i found helped (and the reason i remember how much of it felt like actual work) was when i had an ouchy one i'd think "Ow it's too sore" and then i'd ask myself "really? How come you still fancy some ice-cream then...?" If i could get in the mood for ANYTHING but zoning out before the next wave came i figured it wasn't real labour yet.
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