As it states in the topic I am wondering if your second and following births were easier than your first.
I am experiencing a lot more anxiety about labour with this one than I remember having with my first.
Tia
As it states in the topic I am wondering if your second and following births were easier than your first.
I am experiencing a lot more anxiety about labour with this one than I remember having with my first.
Tia
Yes.
I even have video footage of the midwives saying I can push whenever I felt like it and me going "seriously? Already? But it's been so easy to have gotten this far already!"
And then Dd shot out of me about 4 minutes later XD
I'm not sure. I'm actually nervous bout going into labour naturally before my scheduled c-section date, and that's sending my anxiety levels higher.
Good luck!!
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quicker but in no way easier.
it happened thick and fast, was not a fan of my 2nd labour at all.
first birth was longish and back labour but def. preferable.
No. My first birth was a vaginal delivery. During my second labour I progressed faster but then at 9cm things went pear shaped and I had an emergency c-section.
Yes! I've had 2 babies so can't talk about anything after the second birth but the second was much easier. I had an epidural the first time and not the second and still found the second time a lot better.
I think the things that made it better were a) physically the body doing it a bit easier because it had been there done that IYKWIM, and b) me being better prepared mentally because I had been there done that :)
yes definately, but partly due to the fact that with my first I was left alone in an "observation" ward (there was no observation) for 4 hours, where I went from 2cms to pushing in 3 hours. I had no idea what was happening, and was absolutely panic striken.
With my second child, I had an epidural and had a student nurse with me the whole time. Even with deceleration's in bubs heartbeat from the first contraction I felt in control. Bub's was delivered 90 mins after first contraction.
First was an obstructed labour with episiotomy, failed ventouse and eventual forceps delivery. Total labour was about 5 hours.
Second was a straightforward vaginal delivery, about 20 minutes of pushing. Total labour about 4 hours.
Third practically delivered herself. About 10 minutes of pushing. Total labour about 3 hours.
If I have a fourth I am expecting a fully developed baby to simply appear between my legs.
Oh definitely easier second time around in my case. My first birth was 22 hours long with a second stage of 2 hours, he wasn't presenting right and I had no urge to push. It was very long and difficult and I was in complete shock afterwards.
My second labour was not quite 2.5 hours with a very short second stage. Like a PP mentioned he just about delivered himself in the end! I kept waiting for it to get worse but it wasn't anywhere near as bad as my first. I felt fantastic afterwards, it really was a great birth!
Good luck!
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Yes! Definately easier with my second.
DS1 was 10 hours from whoa to go with about 4 hours of pushing (2 hours according to my notes though) and an vacuum extraction as he was posterior with his hand up by his head. My own mother said that I looked like I'd be run over by a truck after the birth.
DS2 was less that 3 hours from first niggle and really quite a pleasant birth. The midwife said that I did a great job, and that I could have had the baby with only the cleaner in the room! And he was a big one too - 4.5kg
Before DS2 was born I would get a bit anxious thinking that if things went worse than with DS1 I would end up with a C/S. But my midwives were really empowering - they gave me great tips about positioning while in labour at home (hand and knees with butt in air and head on the ground to turn a posterior baby) and were just great.
This is exactly how I have been feeling!:
Before DS2 was born I would get a bit anxious thinking that if things went worse than with DS1 I would end up with a C/S. But my midwives were really empowering - they gave me great tips about positioning while in labour at home (hand and knees with butt in air and head on the ground to turn a posterior baby) and were just great.
Definately for me.
DS1 i was in labour for 23 hours and it was hard, i was getting so tired i just kept saying i can't do this anymore.
DS2 was induced but i was also beginning to have my own contractions by that time, he was around the 3 hour mark.
And DD was my best most enjoyable labour, i had contractions at home from the moment i got out of bed but carried on throughout the day to when things got really intense at about 5ish and she was born at 8:40pm. Definately my most empowering labour out of all three.
All the best xo
I wouldn't say DD'2's labour was an 'easier' than DD1's in regards to pushing etc as they were both quite quick and drug free but i felt more in control and a little more at ease going into it, my contractions etc didn't seem so intense and i was calmer so in that sense it was a lot easier.
Both of mine were 'easy' in the sense of time (DD1 - total labour 9hrs, 20min pushing after waters broke and she was here, DD2 - total labour 5hrs, 8min pushing after waters broke) but it was still just as painful etc.
i had an epidural first time so easy but boring. the epidural didn't slow it down, i pushed ds out in 3 pushes.
2nd baby was induced with gel and my waters broken but not syntocin. i was in labour for longer and pushed for up to an hour. it was very exhausting and challenging.
(good grief, what happened to my post?)
2nd and 3rd much easier. 4th back to first but no worse iykwim
Yes and No I guess.
First labour - gas only, 2 tears (1st degree urethera 2nd degree perenium), pushed for 1hr23mins total labour was 37+ hours.
Second labour - Gas only, NO tears, pushed for 6 minutes total labour was 12 hours. It was quicker but I remember it being much more painful.
My first was pretty good 8hours all up but the last two were hard work
My second was better because I knew what to expect so mentally I was much better prepared and when I was in transition instead of panicking about the out of control feeling I realised I was close to the end :)
Both my births were analgesia free vaginal births and I had a group practice midwife with me the whole time
Good luck