Third pregnancies/births go weird?

[blossominlondon]

Expecting baby nr 3, due 7 July 2011.
DD 40+4, 12hr labour, spontaneous vaginal delivery, Manual placenta removal
DS 41+1, 4hr labour, 3 sweeps, spontaneous vaginal delivery

My MW told me delivery of baby nr 3 can be 'weird', that there isn't necessarily a correlation between nr1+2 and now nr3, in terms of length of pregnancy, delivery time, length of labour etc

Of course I hope MW is wrong and 3rd birth is like DS, but without having to wait another 10 days! Is all I can think of these days....

Mums of three or more, any experience?

[LadyWithNoManors]

DC1 41+3 12hr labour, SVD.

DC2 40+3 6hr labour, SVD.

DC3 40+1 2hr labour, SVD.

My 3rd labour wasn't weird at all. Very fast, 2 hours from waters breaking in bed to delivery! It was my easiest birth and I delivered kneeling which was good and apparently I was totally silent as she came out! I cut the cord too.

[grumblinalong]

A MW told me 'alot of ladies struggle to get the 3rd baby out because of muscle laxness.' I was terrified for months & googled alot!

DS1 - 40+10 - Induced, 2 days to get to 3cm, ARM, 4 hours from 3cm to SVD
DS2 - 40+3 - 40 minute labour SVD
DD1 - 40+4 - 1 sweep, 5 hour labour, water birth SVD.

DD1 is now 8 days old and her birth was by far my best experience - calm, quiet and I felt utterly in control. The water birth was fantastic. DS1's was an intervention nightmare and DS2's was a fast & furious panic and resulted in a 3rd deg tear. Each one was completely different, good luck, you will be fine.

[grubbalo]

I'm also expecting baby no3, due October so will watch this thread with interest! I have also heard the stories about 3rd births being "odd" although have since heard that quantified that there is often a big gap between no2 and no3 and that this effects things.

[edwinbear]

I saw a private gyne/obs last week to discuss my delivery of DC2. He said, DC1 was hardest, DC2 easier and DC3 easiest, then it starts to get harder gain from DC4 upwards.

[spookshowangel]

40 18hrs svd
40-2 8hrs svd
39-6 12hrs svd

i went in expecting everything to be quicker and fab, my midwife chuckled and said dont be so sure 3rd births are a bit odd they can be longer than second. everyone expects them to be sorter but often they are not. i could have punched her. aside from the length nothing else weird happened.

[Eglu]

DS1 39 4hrs SVD
DS2 40 2hrs SVD
DD 38+5 1hr 10 mins SVD

[Fresh01]

Third delivery was best for me.

DD1: 40wks, 9hr labour (they didn't could previous 8 hours as contractions weren't regular and painful!!), PPH, stitches, when she was 12 weeks old a D&C to remove retained placenta.

DD2: 40+4 - one sweep, just over 4 hrs from waters breaking till delivery, stitches, trip to theatre to manually remove some retained placenta when she was 2 hours old.

DS: 39 wks - 4 hours from waters breaking till delivery. Went from 6cm to 10cm in 4minutes! No stitches and no retained placenta. Home 12 hours later.

I have worked out sitting on a fitball is best place for me during labour and lying in bed the worst apart from final delivery.

DS came because I had gone to bed for an early night as I was very tired (both girls under 4 at the time), water broke at 11.45pm. I have promised myself lots of early nights in the last 2 weeks before no. 4 is due in December : )

[crazykat]

My MW told me the third was harder when it came to actually pushing them out. Unfotrunately for me the MW who told me this was right.

DD1 - 38+3, 5hrs
DS - 38+4, 7hrs
DD2 - 40+6, 5hrs

Although there wasn't much dirrefence between the length of each labour, when i looked at the discharge papers there was a massive difference in the length of the 2nd stage. With DD1 and DS it was 15mins combined but with DD2 it was over 30mins.