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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!