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Maire2125
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Labor Question
Posted: 09-15-06 12:23pm
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How come labor takes so many hours? Were
you able to be admitted right then or did
you get sent home? How many hours did
everyone's labor take?
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BrianBaby
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Posted: 09-15-06 12:33pm
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Labor takes so long because your body is
gearing up to get give birth. Your
cervix is dialating and thinning, the baby
is moving into position, and other things.
It takes time for all that to happen.
For some it can go quickly, like those who
have had children before.
I was in labor for 6 hours.
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jessamyn
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Posted: 09-15-06 12:42pm
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It all depends on your body like I was in
labor like like 16 some what hours when my
mom it only took her under 2-3 for all of
us kids
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daretoswim7709
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Posted: 09-15-06 12:43pm
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I was in labor for 15 hours.
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Sunflower_pie81
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Posted: 09-15-06 12:45pm
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Like the other poster said, it takes a
while for your body to become ready to
push the baby out. It seems that after
you have grown a baby in there for 9
months that your body would be ready for
it, but at the time of birth your ceverx
must dialate and thin out.
According to my doctor I had been in labor
for a while. I remember when my back
started to hurt, but stupid me thought
that it was just back pain from the baby.
It didn't occur to me that I was in
labor. It was friday night that I
started to feel the pain and I went all
weekend with this pain. On monday
morning while in the shower I started
contracting more around my tummy. An
hour later I was in active labor and 5 cm
dialated. They had my baby out in 45
mins of arriving at the hospital.
Everyone is different.
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Eyes Wide Shut
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Posted: 09-15-06 12:59pm
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I was only in labor for about 8 hours.
Maybe...It took me less than 3 hours to
have her once I got to the hospital.
This was my first child and all the nurses
were surprised that I had no medical
intervention for being so young and how
quickly it went! For my next child they
told me to get to the hospital as soon as
I feel pains as i'll probably have it
within 5 hours....
Sarah
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rosejackson
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Posted: 09-15-06 13:34pm
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I was in labour for nearly 13 hours
everyone is different
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Emma2
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Posted: 09-15-06 13:36pm
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Correct me if im wrong but active labour
is the longets part and the one that
varies the most between women.....
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Jules
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Posted: 09-15-06 13:40pm
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I was told that giving birth takes so long
and is so painful for humans compared to
other animals because the human baby has
such a developed and large brain (and
therefore skull). Therefore, a lot more
effort is required to push the baby out.
Makes me wish I was a mouse...
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Sunflower_pie81
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Posted: 09-15-06 13:48pm
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| emma2
wrote: | | correct me if im wrong but
active labour is the longets part and the
one that varies the most between
women..... |
i don't know if that is true....It may be
but I was in stage 1 for like 3 days.
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Eyes Wide Shut
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Posted: 09-15-06 13:53pm
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Yea active labor is usually the longest.
My active labor was about 3 hours and my
transition stage was about 20 mins!!
Lol....It was quick!!
Pure, I looooved giving birth. I loved
the pain, the experience, everything. I
want to have an at home water birth next
time. I could've had .Oni at home...But I
didn't have any other birthing plan.
Sarah
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Emma2
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Posted: 09-15-06 13:53pm
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| sunflower_pie81
wrote: | | emma2
wrote: | | correct me if im wrong but
active labour is the longets part and the
one that varies the most between
women..... |
i don't know if that is true....It may be
but I was in stage 1 for like 3
days. |
what do you mean by stage one?
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Eyes Wide Shut
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Posted: 09-15-06 13:56pm
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Stage one is like "period like cramps"
they aren't very consistant. They can go
from every 10 mins, to every 5, back to
10...So on and so on.
I didn't start feeling bad pains until my
active stage. Then there's transition,
then there's the pushing stage/birth
stage.
Sarah
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AyaMiyaki
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Posted: 09-15-06 14:02pm
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Oh god, transition sucks. My labor went
from "not a big deal" (my entire first day
of induction) to "not so bad" (the first
few hours of day 2) to "holy crap .I'm
dying" for an hour or so. Got my
epidural, and was ready to push within 45
minutes. If I had waited a half hour
longer to ask for it, I would have been
having a natural birth.
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Sunflower_pie81
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Posted: 09-15-06 14:03pm
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I know that I hit the active stage by the
time I got to the hospital and my doctor
was worried that my uterus was going to
rupture so they didnt' even get my blood
back from the lab before I was in the or.
When they started to open me up I was
beginning to rupture. My uterus was
opening and I was lucky that I was at the
hospital.
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ANGELOS MAMA
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BrianBaby
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Posted: 09-15-06 14:23pm
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| sunflower_pie81
wrote: | | i know that I hit the active
stage by the time I got to the hospital
and my doctor was worried that my uterus
was going to rupture so they didnt' even
get my blood back from the lab before I
was in the or. When they started to
open me up I was beginning to rupture.
My uterus was opening and I was lucky that
I was at the
hospital. |
wow! That's really scary. That's why I
could never have a home birth. It seems
like too much could go wrong. Lol, sorry
that's off topic.
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Pooh-Bear-2000
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Posted: 09-15-06 15:22pm
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Was in labor for about 14 hours or so.
Contractions woke me up out of a deep
sleep at 3:40 am. They were 7-9 min
apart. Then around 6:00 they were every
3-5 min so we went to the hospital by
7:00. I was 3 cm when I got there. At
around 10:45 I was 5 cm and they broke my
water. By 4:30 p.M. I was fully
dilated. At 5:17 p.M. He was born.
Had to use vaccum extraction because his
heart rate kept dropping so I wasn't aloud
to push on my own. :-( .I often wonder
how long I would have gone if I was able
to push on my own. Possibly another hour
or two.
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Posted: 09-15-06 19:53pm
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With #1 I had to had to be cut open do to
him being breach and with #2 10 hur with
#3 I had 8hur labor so with this one I
will find out on the 24th when I go in to
have my water broke..
Mary38w2dw#4boy
due to have water broke on the 24th some
time
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mia7
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Posted: 09-15-06 20:30pm
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About 6 hours for me but I was fully
dilated 4 hours into it (i just had to
push for 2.5 hours
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