Im due ds in 6 weeks, and ive been told by my midwife and consultant that this labour should be pretty smooth (obviously we never truly know), given I was induced with dd at 37 weeks plus her being my first, I laboured well with induction and didn’t need any assistance. And was only 13 hours active labour with epidural.
So its speculated I should have smooth and fast natural labours given how my first one went with induction involved, My pregnancy with dd was high risk due to gestational diabetes, high blood pressure & heart rate and she ended up with growth restriction, hence the early induction.
This time, I’m perfectly healthy, negative GTT at 16 & 28 weeks, so no diabetes, blood pressure and heart rate is fab and baby boy is a very healthy size (having growth scans this time too). By this point with dd I had all listed complications, so a very different experience (although the actual pregnancy has been harder).
So all in all, I’m on track to go into natural labour myself this time as we have no complications so far (unless anything pops up of course), and I’m just wondering others experience with first vs second labour, particularly if you were induced first time and natural second, as yes my body has already done the whole labour thing, but it didn’t do it on its own if that makes sense?
It was an artificial labour with drugs so will my body labour quicker this time given it’s never actually done it without any help.. maybe I’m over thinking it 🤣
Obviously it all depends and I’m very open minded with labour and delivery and all the possibilities!