Anyone delivered two back to back babies?

[Heatherbell1978]

DS1 (now 2) was B2B; he turned at 40 weeks (argh) and I had him a week later. Natural delivery just with gas and air. I found out after this is fairly unusual but luckily no- one told me that before! Of course it was painful but hey, I had nothing to compare it to!
Pelvic floor wasn't great after and now I'm 28wks pregnant with #2 and developing pelvic girdle pain which I'm certain is due to trauma from DS1 birth.
Anyway I have an anterior placenta this time around and just read that that makes a B2B baby more likely! Hoping for a normal birth this time around but just wondering what experiences are both in birth and after if you had a second B2B birth.

My DS was back to back but undiagnosed until after 30 hours of agonising labour. A further ten hours until he was born .

DD, two years later, was a very quick and so-easy-I-didn't-even-need-pain-relief six hour labour. So perfectly textbook easy. Asked for G&A during transition but chucked it away without using it. I got in the pool after about five hours of easy labouring, the water was bliss and although I lost my mind a little during transition, I pushed her out fairly easy (as easy as you can, anyway!). Only used pain relief for stitching. She was breech up to 36 weeks as well.

Pregnant with DD2 and at 24 weeks she is breech and the wrong way round - so back to back. Hoping she shifts herself around because I would not like another b2b labour. Though - I do read a lot of women on here talk about back to back as not that bad so I do think being able to move around - and also water - helps. With my son I was induced and they were monitoring me so I couldn't move and it was agonisingly torturous.

There's no reason you should have another but if I were to, I would be on all fours doing cat/cow style gentle yoga movements to take the pressure of your back/coccyx as that's where it REALLY hurt me. And I would insist on a birthing pool because the pain relief water brings is amazing. Seriously incredible.

Both mine where B2B I had an awful time with ds1 long painful labour ending in forceps and 3rd deg tears so when they said ds2 was B2B I opted for a section. Both turned b2b in labour and were in distress ds1 I waited and was to late for the section so I figured when the same thing happened again I would go straight for the section technically emergency but not really very calm and a much better experience.

You don't seem to have had many problems with it first time there is every chance you could have no problems again, I would just have a plan for it happening again re pain relief and what to do if the baby gets distress.

Oh I was induced both times and the drip doesn't agree with me that was part of my problems the drip gave me back to back contractions and epi didn't work I may well have had more success without the additional problems

Both of mine were, the whole experience was unspeakable. Long, long, long labours, gas and air with first, ended with a 3rd degree tear and an ambulance dash across the city to another hospital. Gas and air, foetal monitor and ventouse delivery with 2nd. If I were to have a 3rd, it would be by CS.

I've had two b2b births and both was fine until 7cm then absolute unbearable agony. Both was a lot of pushing and after epidural managed to push ds1 out ok. Ds2 though kept sliding back up as soon as I stopped pushing and ended up needing forceps.

If I ever had another and was expecting/knew they was b2b I would go straight for the c section.

All three of mine have been back to back, and I had an anterior placenta with them all. I've since found out I have a tilted womb which probably has something to do with it. First labour was hard going, induced as very overdue but wasn't treated well by midwives and felt very helpless. Ended up flat on my back strapped to monitors, epidural and three hours of pushing. Dd didn't turn and came out looking at the ceiling. With my second, I was much more informed. I stayed upright and active and ds turned in labour, born in just two pushes. Ds2 also turned in labour, very lovely water birth where I again stayed upright and active. First two pregnancies I had terrible spd, but in my third I got pregnant at quite a low weight and had no hip problems, so I think a lot of it was the uncontrollable weight gain in the first two.

Both mine were back to back, 2 years apart. With DC1 I went into labour at 40+6 and he was delivered by ventouse after an epidural. DC2 came out unaided at 39+1 with gas & air and a bit of hypnobirthing.

Both labours were exactly the same length of time (21 hours). They were both born with waters intact too and both weighed exactly the same.

My pelvic floor is a bit knackered, and my SI joint is unstable, but otherwise I'm fine! Both kids healthy. Good luck

Dc1 and dc3 were back to back.

It caused me issues with the dc1, irregular contractions and long painful labour, I wasn't told until she was out that she was back to back.

With Dc3 there were no issues, she flipped back to back at 40 weeks and was born at 40+5 with a very quick straight forward labour.

Dc2 wasn't back to back and again was a quick straight forward labour.

Fingers crossed and good luck for when the time comes

As a good story my ds2 was b2b and it wasn't diagnosed till I was 5cm.
I had a 6hr labour (with a very small tear) at home. He needed a bit of oxygen to get him going but he was fine and we didn't need to transfer to hospital.

My DD was b2b again not discovered until I was in labour. Quick labour on just gas and air. Pain was bearable. I had imagined it to be worse. Pushing was very hard and almost needed forceps but made it in the end. Small cut. Healed quickly.

My b2b baby was my easiest birth tbh, I didn't even know until she was delivered face up. The midwife thought she was back to back because I had broken my ankle so had spent the last seven weeks of pregnancy sitting down a lot of the time. By that reasoning you could try keeping active and see if that helps.

I hope you don't mind me jumping on your post heather but for those of you with B2B labour, how was you baby lying beforehand?

I'm nearly 38w and baby is head down with her back on my right hand side. I've read this can mean that B2B is more likely, on the basis that the baby rotates clockwise into the pelvis during labour, so they have further to turn if their back is in the right rather than on the left.

Any experience as to whether this is true?

Ooh, I have a tilted womb and had a B2B also! Although I had one that wasn't too, so not very scientific there.

All 3 of mine have been back to back. Long painful labours. The midwife said it was likely to happen again.

Both DD were B2B. DD1 was induced (peasant) but quite quick (4hours) until the pushing stage when she got stuck so they used Ventouse but only had gas and air. I tore quite badly and was pretty traumatised. DD2 was very on and off contractions for a day and then full blown labour at midnight. The midwife worked out she was B2B and I was allowed to use Gas and air and then the pool for the pushing phase. It was nowhere nearly as painful as DD1, although my lower back was v sore, and I have quite pleasant memories (?!?) of it and she arrived at 4.45am with a v small tear. What I am trying to say is it can be better 2nd time round even with another B2B.

Not peasant pessary - bloody autocorrect!!

I had a retroverted uterus, both of my DCs were B2B but fortunately were born at 37 and 36 weeks.
My labours were excruciatingly painful but very quick (2.5hrs and 45 minutes) but as a result I have permanent back and pelvic damage and numbness to both thighs 35 years later.

Can I ask a stupid question? If he turned before labour how was he still b2b? Surely it only makes a difference in labour if they're still b2b?

My baby was. Although I had an emcs I was told at my debrief it can be related to the mothers pelvis angle/ shape and can happen again

19.6 and 17 years ago I had back to back babies.

I am 5ft. DS1 was 9.4 and DS2 9.5.5 and I had to have c sections. I did labour for a long time with DS1 and they made the decision to go for cs. With DS2 they told me more or less when I arrived at the delivery suite that they wouldn't let me try and give birth naturally.

My womb is also tilted.

I believe there is something in the angle/shape theory both mine where in great positions until labour and both were stuck at the same position and at the same point in the birth canal. I'm convinced my body couldn't give birth without help.

3 babies naturally delivered B2B, plus one EMCS.

DC1 - 57h labour from contractions every 10m

DC2 - 26h labour from contractions every 10m

DC3 - 22h labour from waters breaking, 24 from contractions ever 10m

DC4 - induced and resulted in Cat1 Emergency C Section

I'm told my B2B babies are to do with the way my pelvis and/or uterus lies. By my second I knew I'd probably always have long labours, they stall while baby turns.

● 0-4cm takes me about an hour
● 4cm-6cm is when baby turns and takes the best part of 24 hours.
● 6cm-10cm tends to be pretty instantaneous, as soon as baby turns I'll be ready to push.

Interesting about tilted uteruses. Apparently mine is very retroverted. Neither of my babies were b2b, though, but I felt all my contractions in my back (very painful!) and they were a bugger to push out.

wolver he turned normal to B2B at 40wks and never turned back again. MW thought in my case it was more to do with me being a bit lazy in the last few weeks and sitting too far back on the sofa as he was perfectly fine until quite late on. So I was holding out hope it was a one off then I read about the anterior placenta making it more likely.....my labour was fairly quick as I dilated very quickly (7cm when I arrived at hospital) but very painful obvs and 2nd degree tear. I'm a bit worried about the lasting trauma to my pelvis if I have to deliver another one

Two back to back babies, tilted uterus and both babies around 9lb mark (I am very small). Second easier than first though!
Third was back to back but was small enough (only 8.5lb) to turn during labour so I had a natural delivery .