SECOND time (or more) moms: question for ya - how was the second labor compared to the first? Faster? Slower? More or…

@Dpushknockx my back hurt for days/weeks after the epidural. When I dint get one, I was literally painting my living room 5 days after lol I felt fantastic.

@dpushknockx, very true! I didn’t expect this last one to be so hard but if I had it to do over I probably wouldn’t have been induced! I just didn’t want to have a big baby and have to end up having a csection or something but it was bad and they turned my epidural off so I felt most of it and pushed for like 2 hours! 😩 but yes it’s all different for everyone. It’s nice to get some comparisons tho

@lesleyandjustinsimpson, wow!! So literally it just doesn’t matter. Every pregnancy and labor is just different. You can have 20 kids and the last one may be the hardest haha

@vanessac83, that is so scary!!

1st 19 hours 2nd 12 hours barely pushed and he was out 3rd 32 hours of excruciating pain!! WTF

My second was traumatizing.. he got stuck, so I ended up pushing for, no joke, 5 hours!! My first was a breeze. I had the epidural, but it wasn’t as effective as with my first. I couldn’t feel anything w my first, my second.. I could still move my legs and they just felt like they were slightly numb. The doctors had to help me w the delivery by using the clamps to help pull my baby out. Needless to say.. I was glad it was over.

for me it was easier and so much faster after each kid

@mommy_x3, oh geez!

Slower, labor time was the same, but when it came to pushing, I only pushed for 14 minutes with my first, I pushed for an hour with my second. I had an epidural with both, my 3rd and 4th labor and delivery went quicker, same with epidural.

My first labor was 12 hours, second was 12 and a half and third was 2 days 🤦🏻‍♀️

@mammablackbear, why was recovery better? I don’t remember much but I don’t remember being in pain long!

My first baby (42wks) I was admitted at 4am had baby at 10am (with epi). Second baby (41wks) I was admitted at 1am had baby at 6am (epi wore off), and third baby(39wks), was admitted at 3am had baby before noon. They gave me oxytocin because I wasn't progressing fast enough. In hindsight I would have denied it, but whatever. No epi, just some IV drugs which got cut off half way though the whole deal.

Recovery was 500000x better without epidural.

My 1st I had a 12 hr total labor 40+3 with my 1st, had an epidural and she crowned on her own I pushed 2 or 3 times and she was out. My 2nd I had about 9 or 10 hr total labor I was Induced at 39+4 due to elevated bp. I had an epidural and she crowned on her own again and I pushed 2-3 times. So pretty similar.

Much faster & I had an epi with both

1st was 17 hours 2nd was 8 hours. Baby came out extremely quickly too which wasn't the case with my 1st

@dpushknockx, I think having your first baby is terrifying because you have no idea what to expect! The second time around, I had horrible anxiety going into it, but once I was actually at the hospital, I felt so much more confident because I knew what to expect and there was nothing surprising or unexpected like the first time around. You got this!

Ok geez I’m excited for it to be potentially faster but nervous even more now! Lol

Second labor was way faster (2 hours from start to finish) and I didn’t have time to get an epidural. Third time was also fast (four hours from start to finish) but I had time to get an epidural that time.

My second was super fast and no epidural also

Faster ! Less pushing and no epidural :) it was easy! still painful but I knew how to breathe the second time around a lot better