Thanks Christy
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Thanks Christy
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sorry to burst your bubble but i was 10 days late when i gave birth... which was on wednesday afternoon, and my labour started on monday morning
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Mel - dont wish for a quick labour DD came 2 hrs after my waters broke and those 2hrs were absolute hell she came down way to quick.
Good luck and hope that something starts for you soon - You'll have a fantastic VBAC.
DS was 42+1 and an induced labour of 8 hours(pure hell)
DD was 41+2 natural birth and labour of 12 hours and it was pure bliss!! very little pain compared to ds
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Both my girls were born on the edd. DD1 was a 10 hour labour and very managable with pain, DD2 came in 3 hours and the last hour was so painful that I can't remember much. I much prefered the longer labour!!!
All the best and wishing you a wonderful birth experience
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I just wouldn't be very happy if I waited all this time, and then had a 3 day labour or something.. lol...
I think anything under 12 I will be happy with (did you hear that Rabbit? Be nice to mummy.. )
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totally agree, mine were all fast and furious. Still had my shoes on with one of them !! LOL.2hrs were absolute hell she came down way to quick.
Good luck hon, ive been watching out for the annoucements....all your buddies must have left you by now......not to worry, your lil one is waiting for its grand entrance.....good luck.
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I was 9 days over with DD#2 and she was born 10 minutes after my waters broke - 4cms dilated to birth in 10 minutes so thank God I'd already gone to the hospital!! I had had so much pre-labour though that it was the joke in my house that I'd be sitting surrounded in a pool of amniotic fluid before I would actually accept I was in actual, real labour.
DD#1 at 5 days over was 35 hours.
Good luck for a quick, safe birth very soon.
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Well I didn't want to say it quite like that but that's exactly what I meant with my previous post Mel. Not quite absolute hell in my case but the shorter ones were harder to cope with.
Oooooh, what are you calling "labour"?
DD was born EDD+11.
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.
I hope you're pushing as i type this!
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