How long did your third stage take?

[leesha]

Wow mine were freakishly fast then. My third stages were as follows:
Bubs 1: 10 mins
Bubs 2: 4 mins
Bubs 3: 5 mins

[Cassius2]

Bring in your written birth plan with you and have the really important points that you need them to follow in red...helps to draw the eye to it (ie delayed clamping until cord stops pulsing and is free of blood) and physiological third stage.

DD2: placenta took 46 minutes. I found that it took a bit of work but that could also of been because i hadnt had a natural third stage before and didnt know what to expect. I lost within the normal range of 500ml.

DD3: 20 minutes. much easier this time and i was prepared in the sense that i knew that it was a continuation of the labour basically. but it came down much faster and without so much time. lost about 800mls all up?? not sure must check the loss on my notes...

Make sure that you have your terms set out well before delivery and if there is a shift change to ensure that you let the knew staff members know. after the birth it is so quick and easy for them to forget and do things out of habit...or because they are in a hurry. it's a very easy one for them to overlook and believe it is not important to the mother and baby once baby is here ITMS.

[Cassius2]

Bring in your written birth plan with you and have the really important points that you need them to follow in red...helps to draw the eye to it (ie delayed clamping until cord stops pulsing and is free of blood) and physiological third stage.

DD2: placenta took 46 minutes. I found that it took a bit of work but that could also of been because i hadnt had a natural third stage before and didnt know what to expect. I lost within the normal range of 500ml.

DD3: 20 minutes. much easier this time and i was prepared in the sense that i knew that it was a continuation of the labour basically. but it came down much faster and without so much time. lost about 800mls all up?? not sure must check the loss on my notes...

Make sure that you have your terms set out well before delivery and if there is a shift change to ensure that you let the knew staff members know. after the birth it is so quick and easy for them to forget and do things out of habit...or because they are in a hurry. it's a very easy one for them to overlook and believe it is not important to the mother and baby once baby is here ITMS.

[xXHopeXx]

Mine was natural, and it took about 45 mins or so. I didn't really have any contractions (or at least i barely felt them) until about this point, and even then i just felt abit weird like i needed to push it out so i did and out it came. nurses asked if i wanted synto, i said no, but they said because i tore, they'd give me an hour, and if it hadn't come out then, they would give me synto to prevent any nasty blood loss (wasn't a bad tear, but enough to need 7 stitches)