How long were your subsequent labours?

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Our 2nd daughter is due to make her appearance anytime now and I have been told to expect her to arrive faster and earlier than our 1st - who I delivered in 3h 46m from start to finish at 37+6.

I was just wondering how long peoples subsequent labours were and whether your 2nd/3rd/4th etc arrived any earlier than your first?

23 hours, 5.5 hours, 25 hours. First emergency section, second forceps, third no intervention and my best experience despite being the longest. Good luck!

First was on due date and about 4 hours. Second was a few weeks early and about 2 mins 😂

From regular painful contractions to delivery:
1st - 2.5 days
2nd 12hrs

1st - 12 hours
2nd - 45mins

All under 3 hours. I had home births after the first one, for lots of reasons but partly because I could not beat the thought of getting to hospital when in active labour and potentially delivering in a car park or corridor.

The thing that varied between them was the second stage. I pushed for over an hour with my first. 4 minutes with my second. 26 minutes with my third.

If your first labour was that quick it sounds like a home birth would be better for you.

20 minutes from when I knew I was in labour. It took 10 minutes to get to the hospital and another 10 till they were born. 😬

(First was 8.5 hours.)

First overdue and induced 3.5 hours.
Second home birth on due date 4.5 hours.
Third overdue 6.5 hours but spontaneous start.
Opposite to the usual shorter with subsequent labours🤷

22h, 90 mins.

1st 36 weeks , 4 hours
2nd 37 weeks 1.5 hours
3rd 37 weeks 4 hours

I have ridiculous births, both DS1 and DS3 were about 36 hours. DS2 was about 12 hours. I was incredibly annoyed that DS3 took so long 🤣

17 hours with DD1 (40+5, spontaneous), 3 hours with DD2(40+2, spontaneous). DS was induced and then EMCS (38+2) so don’t know if it would have been even quicker for my third.

18 ,3 and 10

Thank you all for your replies! I’m not going to lie, I’m scared I’m not going to have time to get to the hospital with this one 😂

39+2, two inductions. 32 hours
39 bang on, under 2 hours.

40+6 4hrs,
39+5 1h 25min,
40+6 3hrs,
40+2 17mins

37wks- 3 hour
38wks- 1 hour 40

My first took about a billion years, well it felt like it, it was about 48 hours. She came at 40+1 but contractions started at 39+6.
My second was about 8 hours. She came at 39+3.

First twinge to delivery

1st 1 hour 50 minutes
2nd 5 hours 20 minutes
3rd 40 minutes
4th 2 hours 10 minutes

2nd was the best and longest, because back to back baby with hand on head, so was hard to get out. But so much better to have a longer labour, I’d much rather have a labour like number two than the shorter ones. 3rd might not count because of the circumstances but 1st and last about the same.

1st baby 48 hours induction actual Established labour was 14.5 hrs, born at 41 weeks.
2nd baby: 48 hours induction after waters broken. Went on drip to get it going took 6 hours. Drip was the worst. Born at 37 weeks
3rd baby : 36 hours labour born at 39 weeks on the dot.
4th baby: 32 hour labour born at 40+5
5th baby : couple weeks latent phase, had to have waters broke at hospital to speed things up 28 hours labour. Born at 39 weeks
6th baby : 27 hours labour. Born at 38 weeks. Was stuck at 4cm for hours and hours resulted in emcs

Pregnant now with last and final baby.
Hoping baby 7 will be quicker. But my family has a history of long labours unfortunately.

When I call.the labour ward and say my contractions have started and its baby 4/5/6 they say well you better get down here quite quickly. I reply probably not.

1st baby 48 hours induction actual Established labour was 14.5 hrs, born at 41 weeks.
2nd baby: 48 hours induction after waters broken. Went on drip to get it going took 6 hours. Drip was the worst. Born at 37 weeks
3rd baby : 36 hours labour born at 39 weeks on the dot.
4th baby: 32 hour labour born at 40+5
5th baby : couple weeks latent phase, had to have waters broke at hospital to speed things up 28 hours labour. Born at 39 weeks
6th baby : 27 hours labour. Born at 38 weeks. Was stuck at 4cm for hours and hours resulted in emcs

Pregnant now with last and final baby.
Hoping baby 7 will be quicker. But my family has a history of long labours unfortunately.

When I call.the labour ward and say my contractions have started and its baby 4/5/6 they say well you better get down here quite quickly. I reply probably not.

I’ve six children, two were spontaneous…all labours have been no longer than 30 min. One of them took 10 min from start of induction to delivery.

My nicest deliveries by far have been the two I did with just the midwives and me, they were really empowering.

First was 2 hours 😃
second 36 hours 😣

An hour from when I was confident it was labour, not back ache. Similar first labour to you, OP.

I arrived in hospital, said I was having the baby, they laughed then checked then I had the baby about 20 minutes later. I went from 2 cm to 10 in under 5 minutes... I had one rolling contraction for that whole hour without pause - brutal but very quick! And they did get gas and air to me in time for the last bit.

I went to hospital for 5 hours total before I was formally sent home with the baby (they were very busy that day). Much preferred it to the first

1st: 11 hours from waters breaking to giving birth
2nd: 1-10cm dilated in about 20 seconds, waters went and baby was born 8 minutes later
3rd after 13 year gap: pessary induction after failed sweeps and baby was born about 6 hours later.