What's your blood type and what was labour like?

[RetroHippy]

At my 25 week check today the mw commented that I am A+ and it was a good blood type as in her personal experience A+ves have quick labours.

She was referring to her experience on the wards, just wondering what your experiences are and if they back up her findings? I'm intrigued!

O - hard and long.

A+.

Body had no idea what it was doing and contractions didn't ramp up on their own (after days of them!). Very medical but ok in the end and a good recovery. Hopefully this next one will be a bit quicker!!!

B+
Two horrendous births ending in forceps and ventouse 24 and 32 hours

This sort of info is all in the notes.

Someone just needs to trawl through them all.

I don't think a thread like this is very useful. For example I think some people who've had a bad time, avoid threads like this (anything to do with labour)

Some women confuse established labour and time from first contraction. Some, like me, just can't remember. Except to say that one was awful and one was great. O-ve.

Think you're spot on namio

This sort of info is all in the notes.
Someone just needs to trawl through them all.

Ah, but to do this someone would need to spend months going through NHS ethics, months going through the notes, months writing up, months disseminating... (not to mention getting the funding in the first place).

We could do this in about an hour

(you are of course right that the info would be highly flawed . Fun though.)

Definitely not bollocks. Very strange but not bollocks. I've been a midwife for 28 years and I run a birth centre now - the vast majority of A+ women have not just easy, but very quick labours. I'd love to do some formal research into this. The distribution of blood types through the world is very interesting too...

Intriguing even though I'm not convinced it's true...

O-
straightforward labour, about 12 hours from first contractions, though only really felt painful enough to be in hospital for the last 5 hours (inc 1hr45 pushing) having turned up 8cm dilated!

My mum thinks she's an A and was in labour 3 days with me...

I'm O pos and had 4 straightforward labours but they weren't showstoppingly quick. I've also cared for some A Pos women who have had long labours (usually long with induction or baby in bad position) but it is definitely anecdotally evident that A pos women are more likely to have rapid labours - sometimes traumatically so. I wonder if it's linked to those women's geographical ancestry or tendency to have larger hands and feet and lower body fat that makes their labours quick rather than the blood group itself.... quite fascinating x