did anyone with an EXTREMELY long first labour have a nice short second labour?

[PinkTulips]

and by long i mean really long. started getting contractions on friday night, had dd at 3pm monday after 18 hours of established labour with contractions every 2 mins, following 2 days of irregular contractions.

please tell me some of you with similar first labours had one of those lovely 4 hours labours i keep hearing about with their second..... please!

[FlameSparrow]

Not me, but I know my cousin had a nightmare first labour - long and hard, and the second was short and lovely.

[FoghornLeghorn]

My labour with DD was 28 hours, 22 of those were with contractions every minute lasting a minute and over 2 hours of pushing ending in ventouse delivery and episiotomy.
Am currently pregnant with #2 so a nice quick (ish) labour would be greatly appreciated this time

[bubblez]

OMG I was just brousing this thread, but now am truely terrified of falling pregnant again (even though am ttc). My dd was born in 3and a half hours, so what is that going to mean for a second

Pinktulips at least you know that there is a good chance that you will get your 4 hour labour.

[trace2]

72 hours first time with dd, then a 14 months later 2 hours with ds

[bubblez]

PHEW!! Was beging to panic picturing the rush I would have to make to get to the hospital..(although way ahead of myself now as I don't even know if I'm prgers yet)

Hope that it does work out that your next labour is faster pinktulips.

[Halster]

First labour was 48 hours, 20 hours of which was established labour (took this long even on a drip to speed it up). DD eventually hauled out with forceps. Nightmare from start to finish.

Second labour (only 7 days ago!): From 3 cms to birth: 4 1/2 hours. Noone more surprised than me! OK, it still hurt, but I look back on it now with joy and amazement. First time round I just looked back in horror.

[MaryP0p1]

1 labour very slow and problematic second labour was less than 2 hours from start to finish, with no stitches. Much better I think.

[motherinferior]

36 hours or so first time (would have been longer but there was a bit of a crisis and they got the ventouse out); seven hours from waters popping without warning to baby popping in water pool second time.

[anthonykiedisbitontheside]

I had exactly the same labour as you describe with dd1 with ds it took 40 minutes!

[PinkTulips]

thanks for all the encouraging stories girls, unfortunately it wasn't to be in my case... 18 hours to get baby Caleb out yesterday... well worth it though!