It happened to me. I have only had one labour. It started naturally and like lots of first labours took a few days to work up to needing to go to hospital. by then I was 3cm and progressed at a "normal" rate to 7cm then 7 to 8 was quite long and then could not get past 8. So they used syntocin but still took a long time to get to 9 cms and I don't really know if I got past this as DD became distressed and we needed an emergency c/section.
I felt supported and was not scared. (I work in a hospital so don't find them scary places). I was 40 and a few people say that labour can stall when you get older but I have never actually read any evidence of that.
I was told there was no reason it would happen again and was encouraged to birth naturally again but miscarried so did not try it again.
Last edited by anney; September 25th, 2009 at 05:48 PM.
: forgot a word!
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