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DD1 was 9.5 labour
DD2 was about an hour all up a very quick labour and she basically just fell out ha ..
So the health nurse and midwifes after birth and today all told me that normally what happens is that if I had a third I would need to be induced because I had such a quick second labour ..
Iv never heard of this ? Is this really what happens ?
I would be home birthing a third anyway but just curious
I have a couple of friends who've done it. One lived an hour away from the hospital, so worried she wouldn't make it. The other, pretty much the same reasons, but lived much closer. It's just for fear that you won't make it in time, and the quickly born babes are a bit more likely to be flat, I think.
DD2 was born in the car on the way to hossy lol :)
DD1 was a looooooooooong induction. Then DD2 was extremely fast I went from 3cms to my baby girl on my chest in 15 minutes. My third girl was born after an active labour of almost three hours. I was told the entire way through that your third birth is your wildcard - could be faster (God help those of us with quick #2s!!) or it could be slower, as mine was. I prepared as much as I could for a car birth (we live an hour from the hospital), but didn't even come close. I was given the option to induce, but that was more because my OB knew I was becoming a bit stressed by the prospect of birthing by the side of the road than him being concerned ITMS. In the end, thanks to wise words from the lovely Liviam, I went with waiting for my girl to choose her own time.
DS was born at 33 weeks in 3 hours, when we lived 10 minutes from the hospital.
We now live 45 minutes away and I have no idea what to expect... My OB says we have no reason to expect this bub to come early, but I'm sure I'll be on edge from 33 weeks onwards.
Maybe it depends on your care provider's preference, but I've previously been told just to call an ambulance the moment I realised it was going to be another fast labour. No-one ever mentioned an induction. :dunno:
I was induced for my third as my second was a very fast labour and delivery. My first was also induced, for different reasons, and I dilated very quickly but she was an obstructed labour. We lived a good hour from the hospital with my third and my husband was very anxious about not making it. I am a p aramedic, and there is no bloody way I was having my colleagues working between my legs! Imagine turning up for my next shift!:lol: my third was also a fast labour with only gel for induction.
If we have a fourth, I will be going to a different hospital about 5 minutes drive away as we have moved house, even further from the hospital I have previously birthed in. Sad to leave my ob, but not willing to risk not making it!
I have heard of people asking for an induction due to be worried about not making it, but I haven't heard anyone being told they had to or that was the way it was done. I had a 2.5 hour first labour and no one suggested I be induced second time around for that reason, they just made sure I had good plans for calling an ambulance and what to do with DD1 if I was home alone.
I wouldplan a homebirth and hope my birth support would make it. I think every couple should know what to do if their bub looks like they are coming quick.
My OB has suggested it when we have a third if my body is favourable at 38 weeks.
Both my girls were spontaneous, DD1 at 38+5 and DD2 at 38+4. I had SROM at home with both. DD1 was born just under 8 hrs after my waters broke. She was a tough posterior labour with over an hour of pushing followed by a vacuum delivery. DD2 was about 45 minutes from my first contraction :o Active labour was actually recorded as 37 minutes. Fast labours have been common on my mum's side :)
I don't want a home, car or roadside birth therefore I'd be happy to have some sort of intervention, I think, in the 38th week given that I've gone into labour that week with both our girls. I'm not keen on anything medical as such though so I'd start with a S&S and then maybe get my waters broken.
My OB had told us to call an ambulance if DD2 had decided to arrive during peak hour. Thankfully it was a Sunday and I had a about 2.5 hrs between when my waters broke and when labour started.
DS1 was a 45hr labour, DS2 was 2hrs. I live 2hrs from the big hospital so have decided that a closer hospital will be better as long as I am allowed there when the time comes
My first was 1 hr 45 mins from start to finish and we live (depending on traffic) an hour or so from the hospital, we called he mw when I started getting pains and they told me to have a shower and go to bed because it was my first so no doubt would take a while, we then called again and again and eventually called DHs aunt who is a mw and she was the one who told me that I would know when I had to go. Then I started pushing at home!! Luckily it was midnight so no one was on the road and DH drove at about 120km/h but we made I with 10 minutes to spare, if my mum and sister weren't with us I know we wouldn't have made it because I'm sure DH would have stopped to help me! Anyway with DS2 no one mentioned anything about being induced! I was told because DS came so quick that I sustained a 3b degree tear and lots of muscle damage that require surgery straight after birth that I could have a cs! DS2 had other plans and I went into spontaneous labour 6 days before my cs date and despite knowing I was in labour and leaving straight away for the hospital and all the mw and obs best effort to prep me for surgery in time I ended up having a virginal delivery and a labour of just over 2hrs from start to finish! Ill be interested as to what the midwives suggest this time around when I start seeing them in a few weeks