Son #1 = 26....hours...of....labor.
Son #2 = 2 hours of labor.....
Son #3 =
50 minutes of "labor"!!!
So, just sayin'......
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For pete's sake, woman! I guess the labor gods felt bad for you after the first go round and decided to make life a lot easier after that!
YOu have been talkative while I was at work. We have a new principal. She's great, but things are just different.
Sweetie--8 hours after planned induction
Stinky--the doctor almost did not make it there--I was told to push and then stop
Don't you just love that? I remember with DS, I was at the very end, and they told me, stop pushing, the doc's not here yet. I think that was the only time I got a little frustrated during the whole process. I'm almost positive I said, "Excuse me? Stop pushing???"
Boo--I threatened the doctor not to leave--15 minutes labor.
WOW!
TK... I remember those last few weeks, and being anxious and most of me wanted it over, but another part kept thinking, this is special, so don't end too soon.. You know just like a trip to Disney, you can't wait for it to start, but don't want it to be over.
I know it's special, but I'm so done. It's been wonderful, I've enjoyed the fact that I'm carrying a little life, but I'm just ready.
You know, if you're thinking about bringing baby to the park when he's 3 months... that's probably a good time... they are soooo easy at that point, as long as they aren't colicky... they sleep through anything, formula is easy, they don't try to get down out of the stroller and run off yet. you'll have more energy by then too. Oh.. and they're still in diapers, so it's easy with that too.
Right now it just depends on what kind of a baby he is and whether or not DH can get the time off from work. I won't take the baby for the first time without him.
Speaking of.... my DS is done with potty training... he was sooooo easy, I don't even think we went through a whole pack of pull ups... he just started and knew what he had to do. He's been wearing underwear all day for the last week now!! ( with the exception of diapers over night...he's had no accidents!..
) Knock on wood! I think the fact that the pull ups had toy story on them, and I told him he didn't want Buzz's space ship to disappear helped too. I'm excited. He's gonna be 3 in January, so I wasn't thinking he would be trained just yet. I am worried about our trip in Sept though, cause if we're out of our routine, I hope he doesn't have accidents, diapers would have been easier.
I'm so happy for you that it went so easily!
Agreed!
DD#1. 14 hrs labor nice, epidural, no problem, what's the big deal?
DD#2. 2 hrs labor... missed window of opportunity for epidural.
DS#1. 1 hr labor.... made it to hospital and had to push.
DS#4. 1 1/2 hr labor... begged for the epidural.. got it, but it was too late. I still felt everything. but worth every second
Not trying to scare ya though... chances are, it will go faster.
Wow. It's amazing to me how many of you had the shorter and shorter windows with the subsequent kiddos.
I didn't use formular so I always had a fresh supply of milk.
I'm the weird one here. My 2nd was much longer.
Baby #1 5 1/2 hours labor. No drugs. Water broke and contractions started at less than 10 minutes apart. It was an intense 5 1/5 hours.
Baby #2 slow 24 hours. No drugs. Started with contractions 30-40 minutes apart. Slow progress and they had to break my water.
2 completely different experiences.
Wow, that is different.
Aww I can't wait to have kids!
DD- They induced me about 5 pm. At 8 pm after no contractions, Dr. came in and said that he had one lady about ready to push and after she was done they were going to do a c-section. DD was born at 9:15 pm.
Wow! Any particular reason for the c-section or just the overall lack of contractions?
Wow. Wow. and Wow.
My pregnancies were great, until it got to the end. Then it just went all kinds of wonky.
Daughter 1 - no labor, planned c-section 1 week early(she was breech with the cord wrapped around her neck)
Daughter 2 - no labor - emergency c-section 6 weeks early because I developed HELLP (blood pressure went out of control and started shutting down my organs.)
I will now live vicariously through the pregnancies of others.
As should Anna for now.
One of my girlfriends had a similar experience, but with her second. He was breech, and she tried everything you've ever heard of to get that baby to move, but he was not budging. They ended up doing a c-section and he was over 10 lbs.
Pregnancy induced hypertension is a scary thing.
My sister in law's (husband's sister) husband's brother (everyone follow that LOL) was expecting a baby boy with his girlfriend. She wasn't due until after me, towards the end of the summer, beginning of September, I believe, something like that.
She went to the doctor recently and the doctor told her, your blood pressure is high, you need to go on bed rest. They (my SIL and fam) told her about me, my first pregnancy, how I got put on bed rest, yadda yadda. The girlfriend didn't want to listen. Didn't believe the doctor, I'm fine, I can do whatever.
She ended up in the hospital and they had to deliver the baby early. He was only three pounds. All I can say is THANK GOD they're both doing alright. She got so lucky.
I know I know. I just went through a terrible break up and while i'm grateful that we didn't have kids or anything I can't help thinking at least then I would have gotten something good out of the relationship
Sorry to hear that, hon.
ENJOY your freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!
