What time of day or night was your SECOND baby born?

[Thankyouandgoodnight]

My first labour was 11 hours from first twinge (4pm) to baby out and I am assuming (please do say if it was different for you!!!), that I will go in to labour once DD is in bed (i.e. once I'm relaxed). I'm also assuming that the 2nd labour will be quicker and am wondering what are chances of the whole thing happening while DD is asleep are!!!

1st waters broke 12.00, labour started 8pm, born 4.13am.

2nd, the odd contraction for about 3 days, then labour started 5pm, born 10.53pm. Think it only finally started when I told myself ds was okay with my mum and went and hid in my bedroom.

dd2 was born at 12.35 pm on the bathroom floor.

55 mins from 1st twinge to birth.

possibly, as you are likely to be more relaxed. Though my second was a HB and it wasn't that much faster I don't think.

No, just curious really since you were hoping to do it all with your DD sleeping. How old is she? You might find that she isn't too worried about it all anyway if she's awake.

DS2 was born at 5.50am while DS1 was fast asleep. DS3, however, was less obliging over timing (about ten to four in the afternoon iirc) so DS1 and DS2 were looked after by a friend for a few hours. (Both were home births).

I wouldn't have wanted to give birth with children who were awake in the house - I wouldn't have wanted them actually present and watching, and they wouldn't have been too happy at being ignored, so I can understand the OP's concern.

My sister's proud claim was that she didn't miss a meal when she has her second. She had her dinner, put her ds to bed, went to the hospital with her midwife (this was under the Domino scheme) and the baby was born late at night. She was discharged early morning and was back in her own bed for breakfast when her ds woke up and met his new sister.

I didn't have children then and was amazed that babies could be born so fast - I thought it took days and days, a la Victorian melodramas.

1st born at midnight
2nd born at 2pm
3rd born at midnight

DD will be 19 months old and I really don't think it's appropriate for her to be there watching - she can't even cope with me having a scan or a blood test. Also - if she wakes up, she will need someone to go to her straight away and she can't be left in a different part of the house on her own at that age. SO, in an ideal world, she will be sleeping while the whole thing goes on or at nursery but it may all happen at a time where we can try and push it just incase baby arrives just before she wakes, rather than get someone to come over uneccesarily. A complete gamble though!

Can you make an arrangement with a friend, or perhaps another nursery parent, to take your DD for a few hours after nursery if necessary? It might take the pressure off you a bit.

1st labour 15hrs, midnight to 3pm.

2nd labour 2hrs - 8pm to 10pm! We had arranged for friends to take care of dd1, but didn't have time to call them, by the time I had got dh home from work and he had delivered neurotic dog to neighbour...so took dd1 with us to the delivery room. We hadn't thought she would be there and had not prepared her, so it was all a bit of a shock!

If I could do it again, I would have called our friends at the first twinge, and asked them to pick up dd1.

Good luck!

1st baby born midday (13 hour labour)
2nd baby born midday (7 hour labour)

DD1 started labour 3.30pm she was born at 1.00am.

DD2 started labour at 3.30am and she was born at 1.00pm.

Spooky!

DD1 was born at 6:05 am (first twinge was 8pm the evening before, and it also included a 3.5 hour second stage)

DD2 was born at 4:47 pm (first twinge was at 7:30 pm the previous evening! It was a longer labour than my first)