Baby #3
Baby #3 has arrived safe and sound and although she was a week over due and as much as I hate being pregnant, I’d do it all over again – but only if I was a couple of years younger!
This labor and delivery was pretty much the same as the other two. I was induced with the first and third, which does make the labor more intense but other than the intensity, all three were pretty much the same. The only reason that the first one took so much longer than the last two is because the baby’s head was against his shoulder instead of pushing down on the cervix. So with him I was in active labor for about 12 or 13 hours.
For me, once I move from active labor into the transition and then onto the pushing stage, everything goes extremely quickly. My doctor has missed all three deliveries, (although he was out of town for the middle one.) For the first one, once the head was in the right position, he was born within 45 minutes. With the second one I labored at home for most of the day and made it to the hospital with barely enough time, she was born about 15 minutes after getting to there. With the third one, I was in active labor for about an hour and a half. It took about ½ hr to go from active labor, into transitional labor, then onto pushing and the baby was born.
So basically on average my transitional labor is about 10 or 15 minutes with the pushing stage being about 10 or 15 minutes before the baby is born. I think for the most part my labor & deliveries are relatively easy compared to some, I’ve heard of so many women that have had such a hard time.
This is why our neighbor calls me the ‘baby machine’ – everything just happens so quickly, even conception. The only part that takes a long time is the pregnancy and of course raising the children!
