How did your second birth compare to your first?

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I'm expecting DC2 and just wondering. My labour with DC1 was about 32 hours, hoping it will be quicker this time...

Worse for me 2nd time round.

Baby was back to back and stuck... never moved an inch despite pushing... told them from the start it felt different and wasnt going well...

After several hours ended up in theatre, three failed vontousse efforts, baby came out on third forceps attempt but I had to be cut and also had a third degree tear towards my back passage...

First time was also a forceps delivery but less complicated and managed on gas and air.. this time had a spinal eventually as they prepared as if we'd end up with a C Section.

MUCH easier! Good luck!

Definitely easier! Ds1 was born quickly but I did teat at the last minute.
DS2 was 4 days early. I went into labour at work, worked for the first 90 minutes of labour, had the afternoon at home, went to hospital about 5pm and had him at 7.20pm with just TNS and gas and air.
It felt as though my body knew what it was doing second time around.

Second was very fast, almost pain free and a doddle!

Honest

#1:
I went in (by bus) very calmly and presented my neat birth plan notes. Tens machine only for pain relief. Definitely not an epidural. I went into labour at 1am, went to the ward about 1pm confident baby would be out that day.
Result: 30 hours later dd1 was born. I took the epidural with great thankfulness after 24 hours of labour. Tbf I'd have signed anything that promised some pain relief by that point.

#2 Went into labour at 7:30am. Dh went to play the piano at church at 11:00am, confident (both of us) that there was plenty of time. After church we went in (given a lift by the minister) and I gave my rather shorter birth plan. I can tell you exactly what it said:
"GIVE ME AN EPIDURAL ASAP PLEASE"
Lovely midwife suggested that I could do a deal, no internals yet, but no epidural until I'd had one. Student midwife came and sat and chatted. Dd2 was born after 11 hours labour without me feeling near to needing an epidural.

#3 I didn't bother writing a birth plan as I'd not stuck to it either time before.
We kind of left it a bit late to go in, having had plenty of time the previous two. I'd also had about 12 hours of having a small number contractions, followed by it dying away. When it hit in, it was quick. Luckily we had a car by then. I did wonder in the lift if we'd make the maternity ward. We did. We even got a bed. I think it was about 30 minutes later ds appeared.
We left 3 hours later. Ever heard of a 8 hour discharge. This was less than 4 hours in the hospital. They even lent us a car seat to get home.
Ds spent his first night in a doll's cot because we hadn't got anything ready, as he was a bit early, and by the time we got back neither of us felt like going up to the loft and fetching it, plus the sheets would have needed washing.

1st.
27 hours of unpleasantness, pain, not very nice midwife, rushed in for c section then baby born naturally on the operating theatre.
2nd.
At home, in birthing pool for maybe 30 minutes max. Fabulous. I delivered the baby myself.

My 2nd was so easy, I couldn't believe it. I spent the 5-hour labour at home, then went to hospital and delivered 15 mins later. Barely any pain and no stitches.